Society of SS. Peter and Paul

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The Society of SS. Peter and Paul (SSPP) was an English Anglo-Catholic publishing group started in 1911. It began as a reaction to Percy Dearmer’s Parson's Handbook, which urged an English liturgical style based on the Sarum rite. The SSPP believed the Church of England should follow the ceremonial development of the Western Church and use the 1549 Book of Common Prayer Eucharist, enriched with traditional sources. To promote this, they published missals and other prayer books and worked with artist Martin Travers to create the right look. The SSPP published the Anglican Missal, which is still used by some high-church Anglicans. They did not publish The English Missal, an Elizabethan English translation of the Latin Missale Romanum published by W. Knott & Son; The English Missal is more associated with ritualist Anglo-Catholics who lean toward Anglo-Papism.