tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post8467142694286319334..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: WHEREIN FATHER ALLAN (AS I AM NOW KNOWN) RANTS THAT THE EF MASS IS MORE ECUMENICAL THAN THE OF MASS!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-58520542459753566672016-08-13T09:34:03.339-04:002016-08-13T09:34:03.339-04:00Actually, the Anglican Church (and indeed the Ordi...Actually, the Anglican Church (and indeed the Ordinariate) counts the Sundays 'after Trinity' since this was the Sarum Use. The epistle and gospel (see the BCP) don't necessary coincide with the same Sunday in the Roman Rite, and in any case the Church of England uses a reformed Lectionary for most of its services, which don't follow the Prayer Book.<br /><br />If you go to an average Anglican Communion Service which follows 'Common Worship' you will find that it has more in common with the Roman Novus Ordo (the options, the options!) than it does with Cranmer's Prayer Book.<br /><br />To use 'ecumenical' in its true sense, the Eastern Churches have never been happy with the modern (and Modernist) Roman liturgy (despite the fact that it deliberately incorporated Byzantine elements) and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople welcomed Summorum Pontificum as a genuine ecumenical gesture.<br /><br />The Dominican rite numbers its Sundays after the Octave of Trinity - two weeks later than the Roman custom.John Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027156691859606002noreply@blogger.com