What are Church of England services really like?

Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 3:09 p.m.

Last week, out of a mixture of curiosity and boredom, I ended up watching an online Church of England Eucharist from a parish church in Hereford. The text of the liturgy was almost identical to that of the Catholic Mass I had attended the night before. We'd even sung the same hymn, and the celebrant\u2019s vestments were indistinguishable from those of a Roman Catholic priest. But the person wearing them was a woman, and it reminded me that since that particular battle ended nearly 30 years ago I had been present at only one C of E Sunday Eucharist. So in this episode of Holy Smoke I ask William Moore, The Spectator\u2019s features editor, what it\u2019s like to attend Anglican services outside London, as he does weekly with his young family in Sussex. I think you\u2019ll enjoy what he has to say.\xa0