Attracted to Beauty

Jackson & Ryan Architects / Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, TX / rood screen

Claudio Salvucci writes at the Liturgical Arts Journal:
The Ordinariate's appeal to modern Catholics is not because the latter have been captivated by the Prayer of Humble Access or the Collect for Purity, but because they intuitively recognize and resonate with its Anglophone traditionalism. They are attracted not so much by the Anglo-Catholic distinctives, but the Anglo-Catholic retention of what used to be a common heritage of liturgical English. And, of course, a once-common liturgical ethic as well.
So it is very meet and right that English speakers look to the Ordinariate as a model for how an English liturgy should look and sound.
With regards to the last sentence, the author has hit the nail on the head.

Regarding the opening sentence, this is one convert to the Ordinariate experience who was and remains captivated by the Prayer of Humble Access and the Collect for Purity.

In the words of Mr. Devin Rose, every English Mass should be like the Ordinariate's.

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