The Calendar of the Church Year used in the Personal Ordinariates comes next, followed by the propers for the portions of the Church Year including Advent, Epiphany, Pre-Lent, Lent, Passiontide, Holy Week, Eastertide, Trinitytide, and Feasts of the Lord. It then contains a complete copy of The General Instruction of the Roman Missal ( GIRM) and the Divine Worship Rubrical Directory which provides instructions on how the Divine Worship Liturgy differs from the Roman Rite (of which it is an expression). These are followed by proclamations from the Ordinaries of each of the three Personal Ordinariates specifically authorizing its use. Contents ĭivine Worship: The Missal opens with the decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments authorizing the publication of the missal. Andrew Burnham, Auxiliary Bishop Peter J. Advisers to the commission included Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, Msgr. All three ordinariates-the Personal Ordinariates of Our Lady of Walsingham, the Chair of Saint Peter, and Our Lady of the Southern Cross adopted the missal. Earlier efforts by the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham produced a Divine Office companion, The Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham, in 2012 this was replaced by Divine Worship: Daily Office during 20.ĭivine Worship: The Missal was developed by the interdicasterial commission Anglicanae Traditiones of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to be the liturgy for all Ordinariate parishes worldwide.
The Book of Divine Worship was retired on 1 January 2016. On 29 November 2015, Advent Sunday, the new missal went into use. The apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 November 2009 dramatically expanded this concept and led to the creation of three personal ordinariates, one in England, Scotland and Wales, one in the United States and Canada, and one in Australia.Īnglicanorum coetibus specifically authorized the creation of liturgical forms for the personal ordinariate through a new missal called Divine Worship: The Missal, which gives expression to and preserves for Catholic worship the Anglican liturgical tradition and patrimony, understood as that which has nourished the Catholic faith throughout the history of the Anglican tradition and prompted aspirations towards ecclesial unity.
Like most versions of the Book of Common Prayer, the Book of Divine Worship took both the function of missal and breviary, including the preliminary Anglican Use Divine Office. Along with the ordination of married former Episcopal and Anglican priests, the Pastoral Provision of 1980 permitted the establishment of Anglican Use parishes in the United States and created a special missal called the Book of Divine Worship using liturgical elements from the Anglican tradition.