The had a Book of Common Prayer that was particularly inspiring. Has then put on the funeral pyre too?
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The goal of the Ordinariate was to avoid shredding up Anglican culture.
The old (1928) BCP was revised in the 70s and "brought up to date". The new language was essentially indistinguishable from what Fr. Z calls "the Lame Duck Translation", the execrable mis-translation of the Catholic Mass that was also introduced in the 70s.
The Catholics learned from their mistake and have instituted a new re-translation that is not as impressive from a language standpoint as the '28 BCP, but is a marked improvement on the Lame Duck and is theologically sound. TEC has refused to learn - it did keep much of the old language as a "separate but equal" "Rite I" but it is not much used and was basically a sop for the old-line Piskies. Of course, even the '28 BCP had some theological problems, which those of us who were "High Churchers" resolutely ignored for years.
That cognitive dissonance has enhanced the appeal of the Ordinariate to the High Church wing of TEC. Unless, of course, they're completely in the tank on the political issues (see "Smoky Mary's" in NYC).
Short answer, YES. The BCP was originally written by Thomas Cranmer in 1549. It has gone through several revisions over the centuries. I grew up with the 1928 edition. The 1979 edition really shook folks up. Since the mid-1960's, it has all been down hill for TEC. Some observers predict a merger of several of the mainline Protestant churches over the next 25 years. You can already see "communions" forming between some of them.