English Missal

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The English Missal is a prayer book published first by W.Knott & son Limited in 1933 as a compilation of those prayers and rubrics which had come to be used by Anglo-Catholic churches in conjunction with the Book of Common Prayer and which derived largely from the Roman Catholic Church. It has recently been reprinted by Canterbury Press.

[edit] Origins

Its origins lie with the Oxford Movement of Anglo-Catholic clergy and lay people who found the BCP to be lacking in those ceremonies which they wished to use. Apart from additional lectionary provision which included the Holy Week ceremonies, it includes an Ordo Missae and Canon incorporating the Latin Prayers from the pre-Vatican II Roman Mass.

[edit] Vatican II

Since the Second Vatican Council and the Anglican revisions of the 1960s onwards its use has much declined though it continues to be used in a small number of Anglican churches (and their offshoots) in both England and the United States of America.