“Decorous restraint and academic discourse were… out of place in the slums. Mystery and movement, color and ceremonial were more powerful. The Sacramento sign could speak more strongly than the written word. But these were the characteristics of worship in the town parishes influenced by the Oxford movement, that worship impressed through the devotion and holiness of life and pastoral concern of the priests who led that worship[.] They maintained that the riches of Eucharistic worship was not only the legitimate heritage of the Church of England, but that which embodied, [as] nothing else could, the sense of the reality of Divine grace in a way which could be grasped by the poor and unlettered.”
Rowell, Geoffrey. The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 117.
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I must’ve missed this last time. It reminds me a bit of the Dorothy Day quote you passed on to me some years ago.