12 May 1548 A.D. Westminster Abbey, London: English communion service introduced under Cranmer & Ridley
12 May 1548 A.D. Westminster Abbey, London: English communion service introduced under Cranmer & Ridley A few notes from Prof. Bromiley, p.69. January 1548 : Latimer preached a hot sermon at St. Paul’s against an “unpreaching prelate” and a “rapacious landlord.” In London, the clergy were ahead of the government. As advanced men, they were certainly ahead of the backhills, hamlets and outer precincts. The English communion service was “introduced at Westminster” on May 12 1548. The Latin Mass had already been abandoned at St. Paul’s, London. Bp. Ridley had seen to that. Also, the private mass abandoned. The repeal of the heresy law “released flood of theological writings” of which a high proportion were against the Mass. Problematically, however, Thomas Cranmer the uber-scholar issued a translation of Justus Jonas Catechism . It was Lutheran to the “great disappointment to the more advanced reformers.” One English Reformer objec...