Anglo-Catholicism embraces a wide range of styles, which we see reflected in the congregations of the Ordinariates. This is probably not a problem unless you try to maintain that DW is some kind of restoration of the way the Mass was celebrated at a particular time and place, which it clearly is not. This is before we get to the fact that some Ordinariate congregations never use DW, or use it only on certain weekdays or at certain seasons.To which a visitor adds, remarking on the now-disused Book of Divine Worship:
As I recall, Our Lady of the Atonement used Rite II for one of the Sunday Masses until about 2011.This would be a very TEC approach, Rite I for the main Sunday mass, Rite II for the eight o'clock. But by eliminating an Anglican-style Rite II, the DWM sends everyone to the OF for the modern rite. But let's keep in mind that Bp Lopes has made it clear that the "precious treasures of the Anglican spiritual patrimony" are pretty much exclusively the DWM liturgy. So we're acknowledging that to a greater or lesser extent, even ordinariate parishes are not celebrating said precious treasures.
Isn't this the atmosphere toward which devotees of Anglicanorum coetibus keep pointing us? Yes, of course, the majority of OCSP communities don't do anything like this; indeed, the big cheerleaders like Mr Schaetzel and Ms Gyapong worship in quite shabby environments. But clearly the idea is to make those looking in the shop window think they're going to get something like what we see in this cover page, and the clip art that adorns the bulletins at the bigger OCSP parishes certainly follows this pattern.
The problem is one that Ronald Knox points to, but one he's hardly unique in expressing: the Catholic appeal is to reason, not emotion. The weepy graphics we see here, suggestive of shaded gothic nooks and crannies, is kind of a bait-and-switch. The worship environments by and large won't reflect this, but to the extent they do, they're reflective of "the merely aesthetic effect of vestments made in art stuffs, of blazing candles, of gold and silver altar furniture, of lace and flowers," which isn't the product the Church sells, nor even the thing that actually draws in adult non-Catholics.
The actual appeal is to reason. Keep in mind the mission Ven Fulton Sheen seems to have given himself, to use reason to dismantle some of the biggest errors of his time, Freudianism and Marxism. He used the authority of the Church and the appeal to reason against them, and he did it in a way that made him a major media figure.
There are Catholics who are beginning to do this now, with newer errors to address. But nothing like this is coming from Anglicanorum coetibus, and nothing like it is likely to.
