For example, there is no collect for December 8, the Immaculate Conception.
As soon as it came out, it was obvious that there were some serious deficiencies. There were other changes, of course some things were omitted and some added, but the basic structure was that of the Prayer Book. The Book of Divine Worship, approved in 1983 and published twenty years later was really only a version of the 1979 Prayer Book with the Roman Canon substituted for the Anglican prayer of consecration in the Holy Eucharist. The previous Prayer Book of 1928 was still allowed, however, and was embraced with fervor by the groups that split off from the Episcopal Church around that time, including some of the groups that began to petition the Vatican to take us under their wing. The result was a liturgy not too different in style from the normative Roman Rite Mass (commonly referred to as the "Novus Ordo") of the Catholic Church. The revision of the Book of Common Prayer in 1979 came after a number of years of trial use. From 1950 to 1989 the Episcopal Church published a series of Prayer Book Studies. It was a seminal book, comparing ancient liturgies of the East and West, and it sparked an interest in revising the Book of Common Prayer. Dom Gregory Dix published The Shape of the Liturgy in 1915. The Pastoral Provision for Anglicans in the Catholic Church of 1980 and the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus of 2009 provide for individuals and communities “to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Sacraments, the Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical celebrations according to the liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition, which have been approved by the Holy See, so as to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared.” It has been forty years since this started and now we have four approved books: Divine Worship - Occasional Services (2014), Divine Worship - The Missal (2015), Divine Worship - Pastoral Care for the Sick and Dying (2020), and Divine Worship - Daily Office (North American edition, 2020 Commonwealth edition, Fall 2021).Īlthough it is not rocket science to compile texts that maintain the liturgical traditions of the Anglican Communion and authorize them for use in the Catholic Church, it has taken a long time to do.
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