The Revd Livermore, I think, would not have been much interested in these perspectives. Or perhaps he just knew where he stood, on the side of a faith based directly upon the text of the Bible (as translated into English from the Vulgate, being the Latin version of the original texts, made for the Western Church, mainly by Jerome in the fifth century AD), without intermediaries or embellishments, and especially without anything suggesting idolatry in general or Mariolatry in particular. He would have stood in the line of Cromwell. He would have deeply disapproved of a beautiful High Mass I attended in St Mary Magdelen’s Anglican church in Oxford on 31 October 2004, which was attended by people of many origins, including Japanese, Americans, Africans and so on, and concluded after the Mass itself by the Holy Mary, sung by the priest carrying a baby, divested from his vestments for the mass, and by the congregation.
