There is no space here for any detailed comparison of BCP-liturgical texts with more modern equivalents. To devote all our attention to the shape and meaning of the liturgy and neglect its sound will only reinforce the familiar Anglican prejudice that change is always for the worse. Carolyn Hammond is a former Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and an ordinand at Westcott House, Cambridge. She is a member of a group that has been assisting the Bishop of Salisbury with revision of the Psalter for Liturgy 2000. First published in Affirming Catholicism Journal No. 25, Winter 1998.
Most dioceses have their own local groups to undertake similar projects themselves.