
The Ordinary of the Mass was very much the same as in the Roman Rite and the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with the Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Credo, Sanctus – Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.

There were optional rubrics before each rite. The Epistle and Gospel readings for Sunday were to be taken from the Revised Roman Missal. The Proper of the Mass included the appointed Introit, Collect, Gradual, Alleluia or Tract, Offertory, and Communion. The Litany, in traditional English, echoed the Great Litany, with some additional petitions to the Virgin Mary and the Saints. The structure of these Offices was antiphon and psalmody Old and New Testament lessons, each followed by a canticle Apostles Creed Lord's Prayer, Preces, and collects. There was Morning and Evening Prayer, in traditional and modern English, along with a Midday Office and Compline. Antiphons-drawn from the psalms, from the opening sentences in the Offices or from scriptural passages-were used with the psalms or canticles. The psalms were arranged on a seven-week pattern throughout the year and sung in Anglican Chant. Three readings from Old and New Testaments were provided for each Sunday and weekday in both cycles. It opened with the Calendar of the Church Year used in Anglican Use, followed by the Daily Office lectionary arranged in a two-year cycle. The Book of Divine Worship contained elements of the 19 American editions of the Book of Common Prayer as well as the 1970 Roman Missal, Missale Romanum. This latter text was replaced by the Divine Worship: Daily Office in 20. The Book of Divine Worship in the Eucharistic liturgy by Divine Worship: The Missal, while the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and later the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross adopted the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham as their version of the Anglican Use Divine Office. When use of the revised English translation of the Novus Ordo Mass went into effect on 27 November 2011, use of the "Rite II" modern language version of the Holy Eucharist in the Book of Divine Worship was suppressed, and parishes had the option of using the "Rite I" traditional language Anglican Use liturgy or conforming to the Novus Ordo liturgy used in parishes not part of the Pastoral Provision.


In 2003 it was published in book form as the Book of Divine Worship and the term "Anglican Use" liturgy was applied to it. This special liturgy was subsequently approved in 1983 by the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Committee for the Liturgy of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Along with the ordination of married former Episcopal priests, the Pastoral Provision of 1980 permitted the establishment of Anglican Use parishes in the United States and created a special missal using liturgical elements from the Anglican tradition.
