"All the gimmicks we see accepted without demur in the most official Anglican circles within the Church of England today -- evening Mass, 'concelebration', Mass facing the people, 'primitive' vestments -- all of them came to us direct from the Roman Church. ... Church people who travel on the continent now find a very different external manifestation of Catholic continuity from that which delighted Maurice Child and Ronald Knox in the days before the Great War -- tabernacles empty, high altars stripped and deserted, statues removed, votive-stands gone, High Mass abandoned, plainsong and polyphony alike cast out in favour of vernacular hymns and trivial melodies; and, everywhere, communion-tables ..."
I maybe comppletely wrong about this but wasn't Brian Brindley whist at Reading, not too averse to a bit of Moody and Sankey hymnody,seemlessly intertwined with extreme papalist liturgy?
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