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!
Oh yes, and we're in full communion with Rome, with the Pope, the Successor of Peter, and thus members of the one true Church established by Jesus Christ.
Isn't THAT the point?
You know, when you have the truth, you can pretty much put up with anything else, even bad translations.
"What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole Prayer Book but . . . . "
Hmmm...I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. When it was Episcopal, did it use rite II of the '79 BCP? Because I can see it being easier to simply retain that little-t tradition in the parish if that's what was already being done, rather than disrupting everything by switching to Rite I when it didn't use Rite I to begin with. Just speculation though on my part.