They aimed to conduct missionary work with more regard to ecclesiastical order and what they regarded as the sacramental principles of the prayer book.
Many found the otherness of the experience exciting, and networks of sacramental stations appeared in most dioceses.
This parallel sacramental system was, therefore, highly regulated and atomised.
We are at the outset of a sacramental act.
The sermons themselves, like their organization in the folio, were not ends in themselves, but a means to a more important sacramental end.
But one characteristic that he suppressed was the claim that the office of ' martyr ' was ecclesial and sacramental.
Probably some clergy took a lead from those bishops who now thought the sacramental benefits of communion outweighed the dangers of unworthy reception.
Priests who kept illicit sacramental stashes for mass were a particular problem.
