But it sounds like a makeweight to me. I've never heard of anyone using it (and WHY would anybody use it, if it's just like the ordinary Catholic version?).
Besides -- it can just be ignored the way "Rite I" is ignored in almost every ECUSA parish.
There are probably some differences...I'm not well versed in the various editions of the BCP to pick those out, maybe I can take a look when I get home tonight. I went looking for the text online but couldn't find it...which shows how well it is regarded! ;)
Besides -- it can just be ignored the way "Rite I" is ignored in almost every ECUSA parish.
Exactly.
Unfortunately, my parish, St. Mary the Virgin, uses Rite II at High Mass (choral). The church actually began as St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, then changed its name to St. Mary the Virgin, then converted, as a parish, to Rome. I don’t really know why they use Rite II. The Roman Canon in Rite II is the Roman Canon out of the current Novus Ordo Missal (Eucharistic Prayer I). I don’t really care for it, but at least the music is beautiful, the hymns are familiar (1982 Hymnal), and a lot of it is in Latin anyway (Creed, Our Father, Sanctus, etc). The priest celebrates ad orientem, there are “bells and smells,” and we can receive kneeling at the altar rail, so there is definitely a vast difference between it and a regular NO Mass!