by Fr. John Connely
When Augustine [of Canterbury] came to England in 595, at the direction of St. Gregory of Rome, he expected to find a heathen land. What he discovered was an ancient and regularly organized Church and that its usages were in many ways different from those of his native Rome. By the advice of St. Gregory, he introduced some changes into the existing Liturgy, not from the Roman Sacramentary but rather from forms already in use in the south of France.
