The wreckovation of St. Georges happened relatively late in the mids. I visited with some friends in August and it was still intact. The only addition was that of a small table altar stuck at the crossing.
Rather sad that such a gem was destroyed at that time when it had survived for so long. Another riveting Article, The Rad Trad. Many thanks. Will you now be stocking Altar Curtains in The Boutique? Four candles on the altar This does not conform to the glorious rubrics of the Mass of All Time. I would love to see proper rood screens used in Anglican Ordinariate churches.
The Ordinariates "could" never be any such thing. In my experience, the more Romewards a church is the less liturgical it is. Au contraire, one of the most liturgically remarkable parishes in the US is Our Lady of Atonement, run by a former Anglican and under the Ordinariate administration.
They may not have coped cantors, but it is an amazing place and follows the English architectural tradition which, if we are intellectually honest with ourselves, was a Norman variation of the Roman tradition quite well. The liturgy, teaching etc are of outstanding quality and have even impressed the traddies, who are generally averse to anything other than Latin. The English Ordinariate, at least when I was there in , is less liturgical. The Ordinariates are, as most of us know, a mixed and diverse bag liturgically, especially in North America - you get everything from nosebleed high church Anglo-Catholic defectors from ECUSA to charismatics.
A few don't even use the Ordinariate Missal at all. And as for church architecture - bear in mind that there are just a little over three dozen Ordinariate communities in North America, and only about one third 12 by my last count of them own their own churches. The rest share space with local diocesan parishes. Resources are, in short, generally very limited and circumstances can be trying.
