symbols of the teachers of the church, of the bishops." "'And it wasn't only the architecture of the Middle Ages 'that swept back into churches, but also its rituals." "'The Oxford Movement reinstated the mass, 'reviving the Catholic belief in the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine." "'In the 17th century, Protestants had replaced the altar 'with a Communion table, set amongst the congregation.'" "Now, the altar is in pride of place and behind a screen." "This was outrageous, separating off what was going on up there in the Eucharist from the people down here." "'And in keeping with the altar's renewed status, 'the decoration around it is equally sumptuous.'" "Everything is covered." "There are saints, there's grapes, there's flowers." "Everything that can be coveredwith decoration is covered with decoration." "For hundreds of years, the English had associated their faith with a simplicity." "It had been defined against the extravagance of Rome, against the extravagance of those continentals that we were endlessly fighting wars with." "So to find that fervour, that decoration back here was outrageous!" "It was an affront to Englishness and it was an affront to God himself." "'I've come to meet Father Jones, 'a priest in the tradition of the Oxford Movement, 'to understand why passions ran so high.'" "People in the Oxford Movement, what was driving them?" "A belief that the Church of England was a Catholic church, and the Catholic church of this land, and a desire to proclaim that and teach it to people and to