{"id":40310,"date":"2013-09-30T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christopher_howse-a_roman_catholic_mass_with_words_by_thomas_cranmer\/"},"modified":"2013-09-30T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:00:51","slug":"christopher_howse-a_roman_catholic_mass_with_words_by_thomas_cranmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40310","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Howse&#8211;A Roman Catholic Mass, with words by Thomas Cranmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Something extraordinary is happening in English churches. Imagine you arrived at an unfamiliar church just as the service was starting and you heard: \u201cAlmighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid\u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d Right, you\u2019d think, CofE, Book of Common Prayer.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the beginning of a Catholic Mass, a Roman Catholic Mass. It is a liturgy approved by the Pope, and it takes lumps of the Holy Communion service from the 1662 Prayer Book. I find the general effect pleasing but distinctly unsettling.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions arise, depending on the direction from which one is coming. A member of the Church of England might wonder why Catholics should want to use the Book of Common Prayer compiled by Archbishop Cranmer (pictured here in 1546). A Catholic might ask: but is it the Mass?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10339543\/Sacred-Mysteries-Mass-with-words-by-Thomas-Cranmer.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something extraordinary is happening in English churches. Imagine you arrived at an unfamiliar church just as the service was starting and you heard: \u201cAlmighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40310\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,42,74,186,389,158,580,183,154,184,364,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ecumenical-relations","category-eucharist","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}