Birmingham Oratory's Liturgy

The increasingly interesting and fiery Oliver Hayes (keep up the good work!) has recently posted an excellent article on the liturgy at the Birmingham Oratory, and the kind of people who criticise it. This is inspired by a post on the NLM blog which draws our attention to some general comments about an image of the classical form of Mass (on Amy Welborn's blog) and an American Priest's reply to much of the criticism.

Much of this sort of criticism I'm not familiar with, although I have caught the scent of it from time to time. I am sure that it is young people like Oliver, dedicating huge amounts of their time to the life of the Church, who represents its future. Rather than children of the 60's firmly intent on their own brand of spirituality.

I am wondering more in recent weeks, not simply what other Catholics think of classical, Divine Liturgy; but Protestant Christians, and indeed non-Christians. Would they appreciate perhaps the mere artistic beauty, precision, sublimity of it all? Or would they reject it along with all the other theological realities of what is going on? I wonder whether, to appreciate the Mass, do we need to begin with the articles of Faith themselves, which of course underpin it; or does the Mass have the power in itself to draw the uninitiated into the mystery of Redemption?