Monthly Archives: April 2016

Gregorian Chant

Posted on Monday, 18 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just left a comment on Patrick Sheridan’s In answer… on a number of questions of church music. I was brought up in the Anglican tradition at St Peter’s School and a number of parishes in York gravitating around … Continue reading →

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Facebook

Posted on Thursday, 14 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I admit this posting is something of a meme, as it bears the same title as my old friend Patrick’s Facebook… I used to share his sentiments about this strange invention that made a very big fortune for the person … Continue reading →

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Synod 2016

Posted on Monday, 11 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just returned from England where I was this weekend for our Diocesan Synod. We began with Mass celebrated at Central Hall in Westminster by our Bishop. During this ceremony, he ordained Revd Roger Bell to the diaconate to … Continue reading →

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The Slaughter of the Innocents

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The scourge of abortion is bad enough, but I went onto Facebook a few minutes ago. All of a sudden, I saw a large and shallow wooden box with what appeared to be dolls. They were not dolls but real … Continue reading →

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Bootleg Liturgy under Prohibition

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I couldn’t resist the temptation, since I have been offering reflections on drugs, addiction and prohibition. I can almost imaging the cops in some American village descending on a church and demanding to see what books are on the altar … Continue reading →

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Annunciation

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We are at sixes and sevens this year, because the feast of the Annunciation was trumped by Good Friday. When that happens, by Holy Week or the Easter Octave, the Annunciation is transferred to the first available day after the … Continue reading →

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Shape-shifting Jesus?

Posted on Wednesday, 6 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This title may seem provocative or even blasphemous, but reading the Gospel this morning (Quasimodo Wednesday in the Use of Sarum) troubled me profoundly. The passage in question (Mark 16) contains: Now when Jesus was risen early the first day … Continue reading →

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Use of Sarum on Facebook

Posted on Monday, 4 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It was a while ago since I set up the Use of Sarum group on Facebook. It gathered momentum fairly quickly and now it has 346 members including Dr William Renwick who is a university professor in Canada (music) and … Continue reading →

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More on Addiction

Posted on Monday, 4 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Updating my article of a few days ago on drugs, I have just discovered this amazing article Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood. We read some extraordinary insights into the psychology of … Continue reading →

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A little more about Archbishop Lefebvre

Posted on Monday, 4 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was recently given the link to this video by a correspondent who was once a seminarian at Ecône and knew Archbishop Lefebvre rather well. This video is intended as a reply to a polemical book against sedevacantism, theory represented … Continue reading →

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