Still working on an English Liturgy. I see it as "inflatable" according to the following schema:
The parts in 'green' are the typically English, Cranmerian bits. The parts in 'blue' will require restoration which will simply be aided by taking (and adapting) that which others have gleefully abandoned. Since they threw it out, it is now ours for free.
Having seen that Alcuin begins the liturgical year on Christmas day, I wish I had done so as well. But I started (quite conventionally) with Advent. I am amazed that people continually claim that there is little connection between the propers, prayers, and readings. I find, instead, a semantically-dense web of vertical and horizontal connections which needs saving. I will continue, as time permits, here. See if you don't agree with me.
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