Monthly Archives: October 2016

A glimmer of hope?

Posted on Saturday, 29 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I do my best to keep the hysteria at bay faced with the American election, the French equivalent next year and Brexit. Conspiracy theorists and fundamentalist Christians love to produce videos telling us that the end is nigh due to … Continue reading →

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New Oxford Movement

Posted on Friday, 28 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just seen something from Fr Anthony Clavier on Facebook about the question of a new Oxford Movement, with a quote from an inaccessible website: We shouldn’t compromise the traditions of High Church worship. But if we think the … Continue reading →

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Benedict Option Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 26 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Rod Dreher has just published The Religious Right: A Eulogy. I have no personal experience of American religion other than a short year with an expatriate American community called the Oblates of Wisdom in Rome in 1985-86. American Roman Catholicism … Continue reading →

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Missale Sarum

Posted on Wednesday, 26 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I once posted a link to a Latin Sarum missal on New Rendering of Dickinson Sarum Missal in Latin and found that the site and file were gone. Fortunately I saved a copy which I have posted on As the Sun … Continue reading →

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Altar Cards

Posted on Sunday, 23 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is an interesting article on Altar Cards & Last Gospels. The image above shows the extreme caricature, of extra-large cards presumably for a priest with poor eyesight. The three altar cards have become as traditional a feature of post-Tridentine … Continue reading →

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Sarum Order of Mass in English

Posted on Saturday, 22 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just added the Surum Order of Mass in English in its full version with the rubrics and a simplified version for use at the altar which presumes that the priest has learned the ceremonies. I find this methodology … Continue reading →

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The Fatal Flaw

Posted on Friday, 21 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is a constant theme: Anglicanism is intrinsically flawed by its comprehensiveness and doctrinal relativism because of the lack of a teaching authority (magisterium).  It is one argument that convinces Anglicans who are new to it to become Roman Catholics. … Continue reading →

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Sarum Compilation

Posted on Thursday, 20 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Some time ago, I took on the project of compiling a complete Sarum missal in English from the translation of Canon Warren (which uses Prayer Book style English) and the biblical readings from the King James Bible. The problem with … Continue reading →

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Totalitarianism via Corporate Management

Posted on Sunday, 16 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I don’t have a lot of experience of the corporate world. I work for it by translating stuff from French into English, and I sup with the Devil with the very long spoon of the internet and e-mail. Occasionally, an … Continue reading →

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Trump and Clinton

Posted on Saturday, 15 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is one last comment on the American electoral fever, since I found a few characters in films that bore an uncanny resemblance to the two horses in the race. Donald Trump I was watching Goldfinger a few days ago, … Continue reading →

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