I am at Ascension now, but we don't have a full missal mass, directly out of one of the missals (no secret, postcommunion). We use Rite II 79 BCP with chanted Latin propers. I believe there was a shift just before I started attending as a lay person in 2018. I was told, "we used to be rite I."
My apologies, I didn’t know about the shift. I cut my teeth serving missal low masses at my home parish, Church of the Holy Communion in Charleston. Although they’re without benefit of clergy right now, so who knows what will happen when the next rector comes along.
No apologies necessary! These liturgical shifts are fascinating to track. So much liturgical memory can be lost in a rector transition! Prayers ascending for HC, Charleston.
In 1977 I became seminarian at Advent, San Francisco, which the Rector described as “the Anglo-Catholic witness on the West Coast”. As an AC rector, he decided, earlier that year that he would “exercise Catholic obedience” and follow the bishop’s instructions and use the Prayer Book. /1
The 1979 BCP was published in 1976. So one Sunday all services were according to the Missal. Next Sunday they were all gone and every mass was Rite 2 thenceforward. (The parish was much healthier after those that walked out left.)
Interesting! Reminds me that many AC rectors were very excited about liturgical reform. I know that at both Ascension and K Street there were shifts in the 60s and 70s (presiding from the sedelia, some versus populum). Obedience to Rome or to their own bishops—certainly a kind of catholic reasoning.
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