I’m curious for your opinion: Do you think this will make it easier for disaffected Anglicans/Episcopalians, to enter the Church, now that there will be much less to give up Liturgically.
I think this will make it easier for High Church Episcopalians to come on over.
BUT - I really believe that almost all the High Church Piskies have already made their decisions, at least in this ECUSA diocese. There weren't very many High Church folks in Atlanta to begin with, it is traditionally a Low diocese. There were 2, maybe 3, High Church parishes, and they have been bleeding steadily ever since the new prayer book came in. GC 2003 was simply the last straw for the few who remained.
Low Church or Broad Church Episcopalians cling to the old concept of ECUSA as "The Protestant Episcopal Church in America" and will not become Catholic. Their beliefs and practices are far too un-Catholic (even anti-Catholic) to ever make that leap. They would more likely become Lutheran (though even that would be a stretch) or join one of the Continuing churches that is not too "high". Most of the Network bishops tend towards "low" in practice and those guys will feel far more comfortable there. Of course, if the Network bishops are completely unable to get their act together, they're going to start to scatter to all sorts of splinter churches or just go independent.
Now it might be a different story in a diocese where there are more High Church Episcopalians. If they have been hanging in in a mostly orthodox parish until now, this may well encourage them to take the plunge as a group.
But it just doesn't appear that the Anglican Use has caught on nationwide. There are only 6-8 parishes or small groups interested in starting a parish, and a couple seem to have died on the vine. Pity, because if you're going to have an English Mass, the language is as close to Cranmer's beautiful and majestic prose as one can get, without the messed up theology.
I wonder if anybody has suggested to His Holiness that the Anglican Use Rite might be a nice ‘alternative’ for ANY parish to use . . . maybe the promulgation of the new translation would be a good time to offer that as an option?