Radical : a new missal by Rev Ramsay Williams

n the First Sunday of this The decree offi- year (29 November), a new Missal cially authorising Oof the Catholic was used the new Missal was for the first time in parishes of the Ordi- promulgated by nariates in Australia, the United Kingdom the Congregation of Divine Wor- and the United States and Canada. It was an ship and the Discipline of the historic occasion with radical ecumenical on May 27th this year, the Memorial of St Fr Ramsay Williams implications. Augustine of Canterbury. The new Missal, called Divine Worship – It stands alongside the 2002 Roman OLSC is Parish Priest The Missal, is remarkable in that its texts Missal and the 1962 Missale Romanum as of the Ordinariate Parish are largely drawn from the Book of Com- an officially authorised liturgical use of mon and the Anglican tradition or the Latin or . The new Missal of St Edmund Campion ‘patrimony’. It contains the Order for the is thus firmly in the western tradition. It , and the variable and other is a variant of the Roman Rite, and is not in Melbourne’s Bayside scriptural texts, instructions and rubrics a distinctive or separate rite. and music, and the liturgical calendar for Anyone in with the Holy Peninsula region, and Ordinariate congregations. See may receive Holy Communion at cele- Associate Priest of St Pope Benedict XVI established the Or- brations of the Ordinariate Mass, and ful- dinariates by Papal Constitution in 2009. fil their Sunday obligation. Any member Patrick’s, Mentone Anglicanorum Coetibus was a response to re- of the Ordinariate may receive Commun- quests from Anglicans worldwide wishing ion at any other authorised Eucharistic and Parkdale. to return to the rock from which Angli- rite of the . Normally, a canism was originally hewn, without los- priest of the Ordinariate will be the cel- ing their identity or liturgical heritage. It ebrant of the Ordinariate Mass, but any was a pastoral and ecumenical initiative, Catholic priest may celebrate the Divine This article derives from an address Fr building on, although separate from the Worship Rite for an Ordinariate congre- Williams delivered to the Anglican-Roman Catholic International gation if an Ordinariate priest is not avail- Society at All , East St Kilda on Commission on unity, established in the able for some reason. Any Catholic priest 10th October 2015. wake of the Second Vatican Council. may concelebrate at an Ordinariate Mass.

28 – Summer 2015 the A handsome each Ordinariate. volume of the This will be the second liturgi- finest quality cal book published by the Holy See The new Ordi- for the Ordinariates. The first, called t i o n s nariate Missal Divine Worship – Occasional Services was by the English is being published published last year. This volume con- artist Martin Travers, work originally by the UK’s Catho- tains the Order of Holy and commissioned by the Anglican Society lic Truth Society, for Adults and Older of St Peter and St Paul in 1939 for their and will be a very Children, the Order of Baptism for publication, The Anglican Missal. handsome volume Infants and associated rites, the Order The Scriptural readings are from of the finest qual- of Solemnisation of Marriage, and the the Revised Standard Version — Second ity – which is indi- Order of Funerals. All these draw on Catholic Edition, and the are the cated by the cost: Coverdale version of the Book of Com- £300, or nearly traditional Anglican resources, and mon Prayer. The RSV–CE is the official- AUD $800, in- are in the familiar language of the cluding postage . ly authorised version of Scripture for to Australia. Again, this is a very fine volume, the Ordinariates. This version is also There are which features black and white illustra- used with the new Missal for the Three no plans at Year cycle of Sunday readings for the this stage for , the daily readings and a ‘people’s those for Holy Days and other special missal’ due to commemorations. They are found in the expense, two very fine volumes of the Lection- but plans are ary published by Ignatius Press in the afoot to produce Mass booklets within United States.

The Divine Office England), and the renowned Domini- Sacraments, the of the Hours The Divine Offices of Morning and can theologian and author, Dom Aidan and other liturgical books to the Anglican tradition, which have been ap- Evening Prayer have not been officially Nichols O.P., who also has an Anglican proved by the Holy See, so as to maintain published separately, but members of background. the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral tradi- The Missal and Occasional Services are the Ordinariate are able to use the or- tions of the within ders found in the 1662 Book of Com- latter day successors of what was called the Catholic Church, as a precious gift mon Prayer or the 1928 Prayer Book, or The Book of Divine Worship, authorised in nourishing the faith of the members of the American Prayer Books. Each of the the early 1980s by Pope St John Paul II the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be three Ordinariates publishes nationally for use in the United States of America shared. for the so-called ‘’ par- its own daily Ordo for the Readings. In other words, the life of the Cath- ishes. This volume was largely based on The of Our olic Church is to be enlarged and en- the American Books of Common prayer Lady of Walsingham in the United riched by the finest liturgical and spir- of 1928 and 1979. These ‘Anglican Use’ Kingdom in 2012 published another itual traditions specific to . parishes were established at the request fine volume called The Customary of Our This is the first time in history that dis- of former bishops, clergy and laypeople Lady of Walsingham – Daily Prayer for the tinctive elements of an ecclesial com- Ordinariate. This contains the tradi- of the Episcopal Church of the United munity established at the tional Anglican Offices of Morning and States following significant changes in have found an honoured place in the Evening Prayer, the Litany, as well as doctrine in that Church in the 1970s. life of the Catholic Church. (Approach- among other things, an order for Com- Enlarging and enriching es have been made to the Holy See, ap- pline (Night Prayer) with the Psalter of the Roman Rite parently, from Lutheran sources for a the Book of Common Prayer in its en- Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum Coeti- similar arrangement.) tirety. bus sought to recover the specific Eng- Earlier in the papal document, in An American precursor lish Christian heritage, culture and referring to the Catholic Church, Pope in ‘Anglican Use’ parishes patrimony largely lost to the Catholic Benedict concedes that “many elements This volume is largely the work of Church from the time of the Reforma- of sanctification and truth are found the well known liturgical scholar, Mon- tion. As the Papal document says: outside her visible confines. Since these signor Andrew Burnham (formerly [T]he Ordinariate has the faculty to cel- are gifts properly belonging to the Bishop of Ebbsfleet in the Church of ebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Church of , they are forces impel-

Journal of the Australian of Catholic Clergy 29 ling towards Catholic unity.” tradition while also attempting to avoid verts from Anglicanism, are also found The new Missal, drawing on Angli- undue preference for wordings distinc- in the Ordinariate calendar. can sources, is the work of an interna- tive to any particular country. The texts The Sunday cycle follows that of provide for a certain adaptability to local tional liturgical committee set up in the older Anglican tradition. Sundays custom such as, for example, using ‘Holy 2012 by the Congregation for the Doc- are numbered ‘after ’ as in the Ghost’ interchangeably with ‘’ trine of the Faith and the Congrega- throughout the celebration of Mass. Book of Common Prayer, rather than tion of Divine Worship. The committee Sundays in Time found in the is known by its Latin name, Anglicanae and canons and the later revised An- Traditiones. Its members include canon glican Prayer Books. The Rite for the Ordinariate Mass is law experts, liturgists, and prelates The Pre- Sundays of Septuages- one that most Anglicans will find famil- with both Anglican and Latin rite back- ima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima iar, including such classical expressions grounds, including Bishop Peter Elliott, are restored. Major feasts such as the of English as the an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese Epiphany and the Ascension are as a for Purity from the pre-Reformation of Melbourne, who was brought up as rule to be kept on the traditional day Sarum rite and the later Prayer of Hum- the son of a Vicar. of , rather than trans- ble Access, much loved by Anglicans as ferred to the nearest Sunday, as has be- ‘Prayer Book English’ a preparation for Holy Communion. come the custom in some parts of the A number of alternatives and vari- The elements of the Anglican liturgi- and some Anglican juris- ants in the texts (following Anglican cal patrimony incorporated into the li- dictions. tradition) enable the Rite to be cele- turgical life of the Ordinariate through The traditional Ember and Rogation brated according to local traditions and the Missal seek to balance two historic days are observed. principles — that and allow for variations and customs which proclamation should be offered in the existed in the former Anglican jurisdic- A remarkable development vernacular and that the language of tions of the three Ordinariates. The establishment of the Ordinariates worship should be sacral. Two Eucharistic Prayers are author- by the Papal Constitution, and the pro- According to the Congregation for ised. These are the traditional Roman duction and authorisation of for Divine Worship and the Discipline or Gregorian Canon (in Prayer Book use within the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacraments, in its explanatory English) which be said on Sun- with a distinctive Anglican identity, is a notes, the Divine Worship Missal: days, and a second Eucharistic Prayer remarkable if not radical development in which may be used on weekdays and Church history. gives expression to and preserves for other occasions, but not on Sundays. Certainly, it is a situation which both Catholic worship the worthy Anglican Catholics and Anglicans, even in the re- liturgical patrimony, understood as that This Prayer is based on the second Eu- which has nourished the Catholic Faith charistic Prayer of the Roman Missal, cent past, would hardly have dreamed throughout the history of the Anglican which is in turn a variant of the oldest about, let alone considered. Who would tradition and prompted aspirations to- known Eucharistic Prayer, the Canon of have thought that the sacral English of wards ecclesial unity. . . . Hippolytus (c. 210AD). the Book of Common Prayer and many . . The Anglican liturgical tradition of the liturgical traditions of post Ref- draws on the English monastic tradition The liturgical calendar ormation Anglicanism would find an and develops entirely out of the context The liturgical Calendar of the Or- honoured place in the life of the Catho- of the Roman Rite. The celebration of dinariate is the universal Calendar of lic Church in the 21st century? the Holy Eucharist expressed by Divine the Catholic Church, but with the ad- Worship is at once distinctively and tradi- These developments have not oc- tionally Anglican in character, linguistic dition of certain commemorations with curred without difficulties on both register, and structure, while also being an English or Anglican ‘flavour’ such sides of the fence – centuries old preju- clearly and recognisable [sic] an expres- as St Alban the first English martyr, dices are not easily bypassed. Nor will sion of the Roman Rite. St Thomas of Hereford, St Edward the they suddenly disappear. But thanks to In reference to language, the Con- Confessor, St Frideswide of Oxford, St the vision of Pope Benedict XVI, in the gregation says: Aidan of Lindisfarne, and various can- spirit of the seventeenth chapter of St onised Archbishops of Canterbury, in- John’s , and with the ongoing the liturgical texts found in Divine Wor- cluding of course St Augustine of Can- support and involvement of Pope Fran- ship are in English, but an idiom of terbury. More recently recognised holy cis, that unity for his followers for which English best described as ‘Prayer Book English’ . . . the texts are broadly rep- persons, such as St Elizabeth Seton and Christ prayed is a little bit nearer than resentative of the classic Prayer Book Blessed John Henry Newman, both con- ever before. Ä

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