Monthly Archives: February 2018

I Knew It!

Posted on Sunday, 18 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of my most recent update of a comment on my Post-Enlightenment posting, I made a quick search for a relationship between Romanticism and the Scriptures, struck as I was when reading the Sehnsucht of German Idealism into … Continue reading →

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Annunciation 2018

Posted on Sunday, 18 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have only just been asking myself the question about the entry of the Annunciation in Dr William Renwick’s Sarum calendar for 2018. The Annunciation (March 25th) clashes with Palm Sunday and is scheduled to be displaced to Monday of … Continue reading →

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Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Posted on Sunday, 18 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This may seem to be one of the most enigmatic sayings of the Gospels, just at a time when the Pope wants to rid the Lord’s Prayer of the notion “et ne inducas pas in tentationem“. What of the temptations … Continue reading →

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A Fragment on the End of History

Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I tend to get into somewhat big subjects these days. It is mid February and I haven’t sailed since last October. That alone is no reason to “go off one’s rocker”. Apart from some nasty onsets of anxiety in the … Continue reading →

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Post-Enlightenment

Posted on Sunday, 11 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have discovered this text of Novalis that I would consider to be of capital importance in understanding our own times. We had the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Terror, and finally, Communism and Nazism, and now the spectre … Continue reading →

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Questo Stronzo di Paolo Sesto

Posted on Friday, 9 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of the upcoming canonisation of Pope Paul VI, and my attention drawn to the Rad Trad blog, I find this posting on Fr Gregor Hesse Contra Mundum. I find a link to an earlier article on this … Continue reading →

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More from the Rear End

Posted on Wednesday, 7 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My old friend in California, John Bruce, is having another go in So, What’s Really Going On At St Mary’s? He doesn’t allow comments on his blog, so I will exercise my right to a response here. His “regular correspondent” tried … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, early April 1997 – and a reflection

Posted on Monday, 5 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This letter is undated, but his allusion to Easter 1997 (30th March) would place it around the first week of April. Monastic Lent is not something easy to live through, though guests were allowed meat on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, 7th February 1997

Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

By now, I was staying at the guest house of Triors. Ray gives a slightly different angle on his subject of medieval parish worship, criticising Terence Duffy but without giving details (perhaps we might get lucky in his next letter). … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, 8th December 1996

Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For a little context, I had not written to Ray for some time, and I had returned to France after leaving the Anglican Catholic Church under Bishop Hamlett. I had returned to France and was staying with Fr Jacques Pecha … Continue reading →

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