Friends, Anglicanism held it as common practice to pray the Litany before Holy Communion on the Lord's Day. Have you ever observed a notice for, or yourself taken part in, a public recitation of the Litany on Sunday?
Yesterday, attending my first Sunday Communion in the Anglican Church [of Canada], the ministers began with the Thomas Tallis Litany setting, in Procession. The priest knelt at the chancel steps once the choristers had entered into their stalls, and the Litany continued with petitions. With light from the main window streaming onto the classical altar and bathing the chancel in light, and our request that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have mercy upon us, I was deeply moved. The rector told me afterwards that "we are greatly impoverished by the lack of it", the Litany, in these days. The Anglican Church of Canada has a rubric in its 1959/62 BCP saying that the Litany must be used before the Communion at least once a month. Since most parishes use the Book of Alternative Services, which has no such rubric, we can see where the impoverishment comes from. People do not like a sense of sin today, and that is why the Litany is greatly needed.
Oh I wish...and the Decalogue too. I'm still dumbfounded that they don't even have general confession