Here is a link to Archbishop Augustine Di Noia’s talk Apr. 25 at the Anglican Patrimony Conference at Oxford.

Here’s an excerpt:

This pastoral concern is the overarching context in which the inclusion of

Anglican liturgical patrimony into Catholic worship should be seen. Divine Worship is not a museum piece, but rather the Holy See’s judicious grafting of proven Anglican shoots on the living trunk of the Roman Rite to promote new and healthier growth.

In effect, following St. Gregory, Anglican patrimony is not so much worth preserving

in itself. Rather, its value and virtue is measured to the degree that it positively

contributes to making better Catholics and more Catholics by fanning the flames of

faith, hope, and charity.

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It is massively important to recognize that the liturgical books comprised by

Divine Worship arise from an exercise of Peter’s authority over the churches that

recognizes the authentic faith of the Church expressed in Anglican forms of worship

and confirms that expression as a treasure or patrimony for the whole Church. In

other words, the universal Church recognizes the faith that is already hers expressed felicitously in another idiom. The elements of sanctification and truth that are present in the Anglican patrimony are recognized as properly belonging to the

Church of Christ and thus as instruments of grace that move the communities where

they are employed towards the visible unity of the Church of Christ subsisting in the

Catholic Church (cf. Lumen Gentium, 8).

By further enriching those expressions through access to the Magisterium that authentically interprets the Word of God and preserves Christian teaching from error, the Catholic Church proposes this form of worship anew as an efficacious means of sacramental grace for future generations.

To be sure, the sources are Anglican, and many of the liturgical texts in Divine

Worship have their origin in a situation of ecclesial rupture. Yet there is a powerful

dynamism at work in the reintroduction of these texts in communities now in full

communion with the See of Peter. It is not just that they are given a “new lease on

life” in a new context or successive generation. These liturgical forms “return” to the

Church having been purified and transformed in Catholic communion. Words

pronounced at other times and in other context are no longer simply Cranmer’s

poetry or an English assertion of independence from Rome, or now merely the

eloquence or piety of the priest celebrant who speaks them, but rather the words of

the Church and her faith.

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Divine Worship: Occasional Services and The Missal gave voice to the faith and

tradition of prayer that has nourished the Catholic identity of the Anglican tradition.

There is much in this tradition that remains to be recovered: the zeal for sacred

beauty, parochial experience of the Divine Office, a robust devotional life, a

developed biblical piety, the vast treasure of sacred music.