[Magdalen] Roman Basilicas.

[Simon Kershaw]

Yes, my point was that Cranmer's 1552 directive was misapplied by the 
Laudian interpretation in the 1630s and 40s, and then subsequently in 
1662. The 1552 rubric has the priest on one side of the table and the 
people gathered around. This was not something introduced by Vatican II, 
but something that goes back much further.

No doubt it goes back to the original meals that lie behind the 
Eucharist too: it would be a strange sort of meal in which we arranged 
ourselves in rows staring at the back of the person in front.

simon

On 2019-09-05 13:07, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Cranmer was a genius in composing wonderful texts and in translating
> from the Latin.His theology was in a state of flux, though, and in the
> end he was beyond Lutheran andskirting Reform.
> There is a very small denomination here in the USA that derived from
> TEC.  It is calledthe Reformed Episcopal Church. and theologically it
> is pretty run of the mill Evangelical.They do retain the hierarchy and
> the church calendar, however.  There was a congregationand small
> church  here in our mountain valley which I used to attend on
> occasion, especiallyin bad weather.  They celebrated Communion from
> the north side of the altar.  Unfortunatelyit suddenly closed.
> 
> 
> 
> David Strang.
> 
> In a message dated 9/5/2019 5:07:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> simon at kershaw.org.uk writes:
> 
> Cranmer introduced this in the 1552 Book of Common Prayer, with the
> communion table placed lengthwise in the chancel (aligned east-west),
> the priest on the north side and the people gathered around on the 
> east,
> south and west.

-- 
Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
St Ives, Cambridgeshire