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My advice is that you should make a careful selection of anything that you have found either in the Roman, or the Gallic, or any other Church, which may be more acceptable to Almighty God, and diligently teach the Church of the English. . .

Choosetherefore, from each Church those things that are pious, religious, and seemly; and when you have, as it were, incorporated them, let the minds of the English be accustomed thereto.

–Gregory the Great to

Augustine of Canterbury, A.D. 601.¹

I hope you will never hear from me any such phrase as our “excellent or incomparable Liturgy” . . . 1 do not think we are to praise the Liturgy, but to use it.

–Frederick Denison Maurice

THE PRAYER-BOOK, Sennon I.²