| Author | Personal ordinariates established byAnglicanorum coetibus |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Catholic Truth Society |
Publication date | 2015 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 1086 |
| ISBN | 978-1-78469-020-5 |
| Website | https://www.ctsbooks.org/product/divine-worship-the-ordinariate-missal |
Divine Worship: The Missal (DW:TM) is theliturgical book containing the instructions and texts for the celebration ofMass by the formerAnglicans within theCatholic Church in the threepersonal ordinariates ofGreat Britain,United States andCanada, andAustralia. The rite contained in thismissal is theAnglican Use, aliturgical use of theRoman Rite Mass with elements of Anglican worship. It was approved for use beginning on thefirst Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2015.[1]
Theapostolic constitutionAnglicanorum coetibus issued by Pope Benedict XVI on 4 November 2009[2] expanded this concept[which?] and led to the creation of threepersonal ordinariates: one in England, Scotland and Wales, one in the United States and Canada, and one in Australia.
Anglicanorum coetibus specifically authorized the creation of liturgical forms for the personal ordinariate through a new missal calledDivine Worship: The Missal, which gives expression to and preserves for Catholic worship the Anglican liturgical tradition and patrimony, understood as that which has nourished the Catholic faith throughout the history of the Anglican tradition and prompted aspirations towards ecclesial unity.[3]
Divine Worship: The Missal was developed by the interdicasterial commissionAnglicanae Traditiones of theCongregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and theCongregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to be the liturgy for all Ordinariate parishes worldwide. All three ordinariates—the Personal Ordinariates of Our Lady of Walsingham,the Chair of Saint Peter, andOur Lady of the Southern Cross adopted the missal. Advisers to the commission included ArchbishopJoseph Augustine Di Noia, Msgr.Steven J. Lopes, Msgr.Andrew Burnham, Bishop Peter J. Elliott, ArchbishopSalvatore J. Cordileone, Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, Hans-Jürgen Feulner, Clinton A. Brand, Fr. Andrew Menke, and Msgr. Peter Wilkinson.[1]
Divine Worship: The Missal opens with the decree of theCongregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments authorizing the publication of themissal. These are followed by proclamations from the Ordinaries of each of the threePersonal Ordinariates specifically authorizing its use. It then contains a complete copy ofThe General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) and the Divine Worship Rubrical Directory, which provides instructions on how the Divine Worship Liturgy differs from the Roman Rite (of which it is anexpression).
TheCalendar of the Church Year used in thePersonal Ordinariates comes next, followed by the propers for the portions of the Church Year including Advent, Epiphany, Pre-Lent, Lent, Passiontide, Holy Week, Eastertide, Trinitytide, and Feasts of the Lord. The Order of Mass appears at this point, followed by the Propers of Saints and Holy Days, the Commons for various purposes, several appendices, and prayers for before and after Mass.

For each Mass, theProper of the Mass includes the appointedIntroit,Collect,Gradual,Alleluia orTract,Offertory, andCommunion. TheEpistle andGospel readings for Sunday are to be taken from the RevisedRoman Missal, using theRevised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition translation.Divine Worship: The Missal preserves such features and elements that are representative of the historic AnglicanBooks of Common Prayer and Anglican missals, in conformity with Catholic doctrinal and liturgical norms, and is therefore at once distinctively and traditionally Anglican in character, linguistic register, and structure, while also being clearly and recognizably an expression of the Roman Rite.[4]
In 2020, a revised edition ofDivine Worship: The Missal was released, containing the propers for St.John Henry Newman, whosecanonization in November 2019 was celebrated by the ordinariates.[5][6]
Public liturgical celebration according toDivine Worship is restricted to the personal ordinariates established under the apostolic constitutionAnglicanorum coetibus, definitively making it a particular use–rather than a form–of the Roman Rite. Any priestincardinated in these ordinariates may also celebrate the Mass according toDivine Worship outside the parishes of the ordinariate when celebrating Mass without a congregation, or publicly with the permission of the rector or pastor of the corresponding church or parish.[7]
In cases of pastoral necessity or in the absence of a priestincardinated in an ordinariate, any priest incardinated in a diocese or in aninstitute of consecrated life orsociety of apostolic life may celebrate theHoly Sacrifice of the Mass according to Divine Worship for members of the ordinariate who request it. Any priest incardinated in a diocese or in an institute of consecrated life or society of apostolic life mayconcelebrate Mass according toDivine Worship.[8]