You wrote:
“I have an old missal from right around 1962 that has an EXCELLENT translation of the Latin.”
That’s what I always thought!
“I’d like to see the AUR be internally consistent, though.”
Agreed.
” It really bothers me. Not that I get to actually GO to one, but I’ve watched it on DVD! (There’s no movement here for an AUR - this is a ‘low’ ECUSA diocese. For awhile there were some folks meeting in somebody’s living room in Dunwoody, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside.)”
Maybe if the TAC came into the Catholic Church there would be a parish nearby? I would like that myself!
This is a traditionally "low" diocese, i.e. it has always trended towards the white-bread protestant, evangelical wing of TEC. There were never a lot of us "high church" types here, and they tended to be concentrated in a very few parishes.
Basically what happened is that some of the liturgically 'high' parishes embraced Gene Robinson with open arms (still wondering how they could do that and call themselves 'in the Anglo Catholic tradition'). The only one that stayed both 'high' and orthodox was Our Saviour Virginia Highlands, and it is a struggling, small, aging parish without much of a future. Probably will be reduced to dependent mission status.
Rather than fight the bishop because Georgia law is not favorable to dissenting parishes, most people just left individually or in small groups. Most 'low churchers' went Evangelical or to one of the breakaway Anglican churches, which are mostly 'low'. The 'high churchers' went Catholic, but numerically there aren't enough of us in any one area in metro Atlanta to start an AUR parish. The group meeting in Dunwoody has been very quiet and may have just ceased to exist.