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The Anglican Book of Common Prayer 1928 set the bar years ago. You can't have a better service than that :-)

The only opportunity a bona fide catholic can have to experience the 1928 service is to attend the anglican rite churches that are converting en masse to the RC fold.

Be warned though, the 1928 service is more somber, 20 minutes longer and more heartfelt than the current RC liturgy.

[ConorMacNessa]

An hour and a half? I'll have to give it a try if I can find one in my area.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Ax]

I attended mass yesterday at an Anglican church - my wife’s old parish. The Anglicans do a lot more kneeling than we Catholics do, but apart from some cutting and pasting, the liturgies are very close. I am just as comfortable at the Anglican church as I am in my own Roman Catholic parish. In the Anglican parish here, there are only two services, and I doubt if there are 150 persons all told. At my RC parish there are several hundred worshippers each at the six masses.