The “Anglican Mass “ as it presently exists in a Protestant setting must be distinguished from the Anglican Rite Mass which will be blessed for use by those who make this journey. The Anglican Rite Mass will be celebrated by those who intellectually agree with the dogma and doctrine of Rome and there will be a physical separation of the Anglican Mass and the Anglican Rite Mass. Protestants go to one church Catholics to another. Those Protestants who make the journey will probably be more orthodox and more observant than the current spiritually bankrupt peasants who currently occupy the RC churches. If not, then why would a current Protestant Anglican make this journey? That is why I facetiously remarked in a prior post that the current devout RC crowd might well attend an Anglican Rite Liturgy to escape the current morass in the RCC occasioned by its present hierarchy and prominent politicians. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is substantially more sacred than the tunes belted out by the master of the current Catholic regime.
I was just talking about this with a coworker earlier. Ironically, the 1928 prayer book is decidedly low church, but that does not mean it is not very conservative and orthodox. It is the prayer book of the church that only did communion once a month, meaning that morning prayer the daily office are that much more important. It’s the mass where when you finish communion, you don’t get up and go, you’re only getting toward the end, you’re on your knees for another eternity before you’re released. It’s the church of the Priest consecrating the elements ad orientem, and “doing his business” with his hands over the bread and wine. But there is no emphasis on chasubles and headgear, incense or crucifixes, latin or chant. It’s a good lesson that low church does not have to mean unorthodox.