The video on this page is testimony to a long and haunting aspiration to revive the Use of Sarum as a living liturgical rite in the Church of our own time.

This celebration took place in the chapel of Merton College, Oxford, February 1997 on the Feast of the Purification (Candlemas). Though it was celebrated in an Anglican college chapel, this Mass was under Roman Catholic auspices. Its use was justified in a Roman Catholic context by the fact that Pius V's legislation, Quo primum of 1570, respected the existence of liturgical traditions going back more than 200 years. Therefore, the Use of Sarum has not been technically abolished and has remained in occasional use.