How Tolkien Handled the Novus Ordo Eucharist

The famous English author and Oxford University professor J.R.R. Tolkien (+1973) was unwilling to embrace the liturgical changes implemented after Vatican II. His grandson Simon Tolkien told this story in The Mail on Sunday (2003):

“I vividly remember going to church with him in Bournemouth. He was a devout Roman Catholic and it was soon after the Church had changed the liturgy from Latin to English.

My Grandfather obviously didn't agree with this and made all the responses very loudly in Latin while the rest of the congregation answered in English.

I found the whole experience quite excruciating, but my grandfather was oblivious. He simply had to do what he believed to be right."

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