I can see that 'getting in the way' would be a very compelling reason for someone who just doesn't want to use them, no matter what.
Or is it that there must be a hymn, and no time for anything else?
I'm not altogether certain that this is a viable contention. The Ordinariate ('Anglican') Use differs from the EF in significant ways, most distinctively in that the confession ('confiteor') occurs not at the beginning of the mass but before the offertory, after the creed and prayers of the faithful. Also, it has not the distinctive offertory prayers of the EF, and has several long prayers ('of thanksgiving', the Sarum-inspired 'prayer of humble access', etc.) that have no equivalents in the EF. In the same ways it is distinct from the OF as well....is closer to...
Finally, as I have maintained before in a number of other threads, if the EF had been revised and put into English and the OF had never happened (indeed, if Vatican II had never happened!), the EF would have been treated to much of the abuse that has been heaped upon the OF.
I realize some still use it, but things have changed from any practical standpoint, and there is no going back.
Never say never, Charles! If church history teaches us anything, things taken for granted can slowly but surely go topsy turvy.
Indeed! We are taught in holy writ that all happened 'in the fulness of time'....God just picked...
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