Greater numbers of young people are being drawn to Anglo-Catholic and other liturgical churches, according to the Catholic Herald (February 7, 2020). British media have reported that young people are “flocking” to these liturgical parishes of the Church of England, such as St. Bartholomew the Great, in the City of London. Marcus Walker, the pastor of 
St. Bartholomew the Great, writes that “With two percent of those under 25 in Britain calling themselves Anglican, almost any number of Anglo-Catholic millennials looks positive when contrasted with the regular turnout in Church of England churches; even a handful would honestly count as `flocking.’” But over the last year we have seen a notable uptick in the number of millennials (and, indeed, post-millennials, if we’re going to be strict about definitions) both to our High Mass on Sunday mornings and to Evensong on Sunday evenings.
Greater numbers of young people are being drawn to Anglo-Catholic and other liturgical churches, according to the Catholic Herald (February 7, 2020). British media have reported that young people are “flocking” to these liturgical parishes of the Church of England, such as St. Bartholomew the Great, in the City of London. Marcus Walker, the pastor of St. Bartholomew the Great, writes that “With two percent of those under 25 in Britain calling themselves Anglican, almost any number of Anglo-Catholic millennials look positive when contrasted with the regular turnout in Church of England churches; even a handful would honestly count as `flocking.’” But over the last year we have seen a notable uptick in the number of millennials (and, indeed, post-millennials, if we’re going to be strict about definitions) both to our High Mass on Sunday mornings and to Evensong on Sunday evenings.
Walker sees similar growth in such high church Anglican expressions as Westcott House, an Anglican seminary, and the Prayer Book Society, which has recently seen a 40 percent rise in its more youthful membership. “I would add to this a trend that was impossible to ignore in my previous position (that of deputy director at the Anglican Centre in Rome): by a considerable margin most of Rome’s young seminarians are liturgical traditionalists. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this is broadly true across the Anglosphere for the young laity. Latin Masses, east-facing liturgies: these are the order of the day for those rebelling against their peers and parents,” Walker adds. He calls this a counter-revolution from the liturgical renewal of the 1960s. “There is, in fact, a shared border here. All three manifestations of Christianity – the Charismatic, traditionalist Catholic and Anglo-Catholic – demand a high quality of music…All three use the body physically in worship: whether crossing yourself at the elevation of the Host or following Elizabeth I’s injunction to bow at the Name of Jesus or raising your hands at a profound moment of singing, there is an acknowledgment that worship is physical as well as mental. Finally, all three take preaching seriously…”
(Catholic Herald, https://catholicherald.co.uk/why-anglo-catholicism-appeals-tomillennials/?fbclid=IwAR3UO-IwelmYVumqEQpXh6Wv5nThOhXF9yuuNtaXy8UoVP9H8kbx5eAY-8)
