The Catholics who embrace T S Eliot Now the Ordinariate has published a Customary (Canterbury Press, £45), which is a daily prayer book, though it does not include the Mass. The editors are Fr Aidan Nichols, a Dominican theologian of a compendious mind, and Mgr Andrew Burnham, who is Assistant to the Ordinary. (The Ordinary, Mgr Keith Newton, who runs the Ordinariate, has the jurisdiction of a bishop, but he and Mgr Burnham - bishops when Anglicans - are both married, so cannot be consecrated bishops in the Catholic Church. They are both in priestly orders.) Mgr Burnham is the author of Heaven and Earth in Little Space, a study of the liturgy that I wrote about here in 2010. He argued for the "re-enchantment" of liturgy, mentioning the "sacral language" developed in the 16th century, including the Coverdale Psalter. It is not even the first time Coverdale's Psalms have been used in the Catholic Church. They were in the Book of Divine Worship adopted in 2003 for use by American former Anglicans. The editors of the Customary suggest that some may prefer to take refuge in the Psalms as rendered in the Second Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. This cumbersome way of naming a translation cannot be avoided. It, like the First Edition, is authorised for public worship, and Nichols and Burnham hope that it might be used in alternation with the Revised Grail Psalter (a version designed for singing) for Sundays. I'm not sure about the devotional helpfulness of using two or three different versions of the Psalms. It makes it less easy to know these prayers of the Church by heart. On the other hand, one translation brings out an aspect obscured by another. More fascinating, for some, is the Customary's choice of readings for the second lesson at either Morning or Evening Prayer in the Divine Office. These include passages from 17th-century divines such as Lancelot Andrewes and Thomas Traherne, from 19th-century Tractarians and their successors, such as John Keble, H P Liddon and J M Neale, and from 20th-century Anglo-Catholic writers, including Austin Farrer and TS Eliot (pictured here in Gerald Kelly's portrait). The editors note that the extracts were selected for "their thorough congruence with a (Roman) Catholic doctrinal understanding." They hope the Catholic Church can "appropriate more fully the saints and spiritual writers of the British Isles." They aim "to identify a body of writing which is fully in harmony with the doctrine taught by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church yet derives from the Anglican patrimony." Even reciting Morning and Evening Prayer is unfamiliar to many Roman Catholics. A living patrimony from the Anglican tradition would change their horizons.