Cranmer's Godly Order: The Destruction of Catholicism Through Liturgical Change (Liturgical Revolution) (Hardcover)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Roman Catholic Books; Rev Exp edition (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912141247
• ISBN-13: 978-0912141244
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,141,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the protestant reformation, November 19, 1998

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This book focuses on the protestant reformation in England from the time of King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth I. It draws extensively from quotes by key persons involved in the Anglican reformation, as well as opponents. The author's conclusions paint a very different picture from many other texts on the subject. Highly recommended.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Change of Faith by the Change of Mass, March 8, 2006

By	Michael Villegas (Los Angeles, California, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An excellent book by the late Michael Davies, the former President of Una Voce International.

"Cranmer's Godly Order" is about the destruction of Catholicism by Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Though Henry VIII removed the Pope's authority in England as well as the church property and ransacking of all monasteries and convents---he refused to abolish the traditional Latin Mass celebrated since the conversion of England by St. Augustine of Canterbury.

Thomas Cranmer's liturgical renewal has since been the liturgical service of the Church of England until today in the 21st century. The removal of the essence of the Catholic liturgy in England with the introduction of the celebration of the Lord's Supper celebrated by the Anglican minister facing the congregation and conducted in the English language rather than the unbloody Eucharistic Sacrifice offered by the priest facing the altar and conducted in the Latin language by the Catholic Church.

Cranmer abolished Latin because he believed that English people should worship in their own language and have much availability in participating in worship in Mass. The altar and tabernacle were done away with and a table was placed in its former place. Communion in the hand was enforced and communion under both species of bread and wine was allowed.

A detailed book on the events that led England from a Catholic country to a Protestant Anglican country until now. How this liturgical revolution of Thomas Cranmer, an apostate Catholic archbishop inspired the modern liturgical renewal of the Roman Catholic liturgy after the Second Vatican Council ended in 1965.