THE P RTAL
May 2014
Standard Version of the Bible,
which goes back to the King
James version of 1611. The
Creed, Intercessions and the
Penitential Rite are available
in Prayer Book language. The
Comfortable Words and the
sentences of Scripture which
accompany the collection of
money only (Cranmer would
approve) come from the Prayer
Book. Right up to the Offertory
there is nothing unfamiliar to
Prayer Book Anglicans.
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‘We do not presume to come to
this Thy Table, O merciful Lord
…’. Holy Communion can be
administered using familiar
Prayer Book words and the Mass
concludes with the fine postCommunion Prayer (‘Almighty
and everliving God, we most
heartily thank Thee …’) and
the Cranmerian blessing (‘The
Peace of God, which passeth all
understanding …’).
Here then is the sort of Mass
that might have been authorised
The Offertory (Form II)
in Elizabethan England if
has a familiar ring to modern
England had remained Catholic
Anglicans and the Alternative
and in communion with the
Eucharistic Prayer with its
Holy See. It can be used now, in
Prayer Book style preface,
a simple and restrained way, that
Sanctus and Benedictus, and
can draw central churchmen
simple ceremonial, is very
in the Church of England into
accessible to mainstream Anglicans.
full communion with the Catholic Church. And that,
surely, is the intention and vision of Anglicanorum
The Communion Rite also contains a wealth of Coetibus.
Prayer Book material including the prayer which
The Revd Dr Alan Griffin
appeals to cradle Catholics as much as cradle Anglicans
Letter to the Editor
From Tony O’Rourke
Ordinariate Use across Scotland at the followin