Editing Use of Sarum (section)

===Influence on Anglo-Catholic Anglican liturgy===
The ritual of Sarum Use has influenced even churches that do not use its text, obscuring understanding of the original:

{{Blockquote|text=The modern fame of the Use of Sarum is to a great extent an accidental product of the political and religious preoccupations of 19th-century English ecclesiastics and ecclesiologists. The Use certainly deserves attention and respect as an outstanding intellectual achievement, but it is far from unique, and the fascination that it has exerted still threatens to limit rather than increase our understanding of the medieval English Church.<ref name="Sandon"/>}}

<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Sarum-Mass2.jpg|thumb|450px|Priest receives incense during a Sarum Mass.]] -->Many of the ornaments and ceremonial practices associated with the Sarum rite—though not the full liturgy itself—were revived in the Anglican Communion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as part of the Anglo-Catholic [[Oxford Movement]] in the Church of England. Some Anglo-Catholics wanted to find a traditional formal liturgy that was characteristically "English" rather than "Roman." They took advantage of the '[[Ornaments Rubric]]' of 1559, which directed that English churches were to use "...such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of Edward VI of England," i.e. January 1548 - January 1549, before the First Prayer Book came into effect in June of the latter year (which authorized the use of traditional vestments and was quite explicit that the priest shall wear an alb, vestment (chasuble) or cope and that the deacons shall be vested in albs and tunicles (dalmatics). However, there was a tendency to read back [[Victorian era|Victorian]] centralizing tendencies into mediaeval texts, and so a rather rubrical spirit was applied to liturgical discoveries.

Chief among the proponents of Sarum customs was the Anglican priest [[Percy Dearmer]], who put these into practice (according to his own interpretation) at his parish of St Mary the Virgin, [[Primrose Hill]], in [[London]]. He explained them at length in ''[[The Parson's Handbook]],'' which ran through several editions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bates |first=J. Barrington |date=2004 |title=Extremely beautiful, but eminently unsatisfactory: Percy Dearmer and the healing rites of the Church, 1909–1928 |jstor=42612398 |journal=Anglican and Episcopal History |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=196–207 |issn=0896-8039}}</ref> This style of worship has been retained in some present-day Anglican churches and monastic institutions, where it is known as "English Use" (Dearmer's term) or "Prayer Book Catholicism".