Monthly Archives: November 2013

Around the World in an Open Boat

Posted on Thursday, 28 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just discovered another amazing feat from the annals of seafaring. It is the incredible voyage of Anthony Steward, a South African, who circumnavigated in a nineteen-foot open boat, modified from a coastal trailer-sailer dayboat. No one has done … Continue reading →

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A Better Sarum Calendar

Posted on Tuesday, 26 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I forgot about this very important source of Sarum material, especially the Office. Sarum Chant It includes the Calendar – 2013 for Advent and up to 31st December 2013 and 2014 from 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2014. The … Continue reading →

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Another Plea for a Church of Human Dimensions

Posted on Monday, 25 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother priest Fr Jonathan Munn has written another cri de coeur – Unashamed Idealism. I added a brief comment, suggesting that my old article Rigorism,Tutiorism and Probabilism had some relevance by analysing the roots of the legalistic and judgemental attitude … Continue reading →

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Abolish the Priesthood?

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In view of the weight of claims for the episcopal consecration of women and the “empowerment” of the laity one keeps hearing in French dioceses, I did a search on Google to see if anyone had seriously considered abolishing the … Continue reading →

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Mobile Chapels

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m in the mind to continue this theme. I remember reading a book by Fr Werenfried van Straaten about his work in eastern Germany just after World War II in the flattened and devastated cities. This is one of the … Continue reading →

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Tuck Box Chapel

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Following on from my previous article, it occurs to me that I have never shown my tuck box chapel. A schoolboy’s tuck box is perhaps his most important piece of standard equipment at an English boarding school. It goes with … Continue reading →

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Temporary Altars

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am overjoyed that the Anglican Catholic Fellowship (our diocese in England)  is ministering to house groups and isolated folk. One such group is being established in Whitby, the north-eastern port that represents my own roots and means a great … Continue reading →

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Church Bureaucracy

Posted on Saturday, 23 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We have all come up against bureaucracy in our lives, from the moment we need to see a doctor, claim sickness benefit, get planning permission to build a new garage or extension to our home, deal with our tax declarations … Continue reading →

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Honey, I Buried the Church!

Posted on Saturday, 23 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The only thing is that a film by this name would hardly draw the crowds that once attracted people to comedy stories about inventive husbands shrinking their children! What inspires this article are two pieces, one on the Church of … Continue reading →

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A Great Sailing E-mail Group

Posted on Friday, 22 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is one I recommend, called Openboat. It has 1534 members from all over the world, not just England. I have just joined it. This is the official description: Openboat is dedicated to the cruising of open boats in coastal … Continue reading →

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