> "Adding mentally to what the Rite (in Newmans mind) omits" opens a
Pandora's box. Aquinas statement about what makes a valid Mass certainly
includes even the Canon of the 1662 BCP. Blessings. GDVW+               
                       As regards Tract XC:
> Archbishop Tait never regretted the part he took in condemning the it.  In
> 1880, he said "Were it all to happen again I think I should, in the same
> position, do exactly as I did then." (Life of Archbishop Tait. Vol. 1,
> pp.81,82). Newmans friend, the Rev. Isaac Williams, said, "Many have
> naturally supposed that it was the condemnation of the Tract No XC, by the
> Heads of Houses, which gave his [Newman's] sensitive mind the decided turn
> to the Church of Rome."  An honest man, holding the opinons that Newman
> expressed to Williams, would at once have seceded to Rome, and not have
> waited till 1845.
> It might prove interesting to some to read Newman's pamphlet, Letter to
> the Bishop of Oxford on Occasion of Tract XC, dated March 29th, 1841.
> Soon after the publication of this pamphlet, the Rev. W.G. Ward wrote to
> old Dr. Pusey, "I have heard Newman say that it is, to say the least,
> doubtful whether there can be said to be a valid Sacrament administered
> unless the priest adds mentall what our Eucharistic Service omits."
>
> Just a comment for what it might be worth.
>
> Jack
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