It is the Gregorian hymnody in the hands of C.W. Douglas (the Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian) that I wanted to commend to you. The Anglicans have had an "English Gregorian Chant Project" for a long time located in Russell Square in London. It might have been called The English Plainsong and Chant Society. I regret that my books are not with me. But again that society in England, and C.W. Douglas, and John Mason Neale all did excellent work adapting the Gregorian chants (Sarum and Ambrosian as well) to English. Now I want all of this in Latin (because that's how I am), but if it is going to be in English, I would rather sing these versions than the demented ICEL-ized mini-chant pseudo-Gregorian stuff that I have seen.....
Well, I'm a Latin-promoter, too. I've sung a bunch of English stuff, and like it; but watching WYD simply made it clearer to me: use Latin!! That way everybody can sing the Ordinary, at least.
Now the sermons--that's another problem.