Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

The Gas-driven Ferrograph

Posted on Thursday, 26 May, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have already brought up the subject of John Rothera (1916-1997) who was an alto songman in York Minster choir. The late Dr Francis Jackson (1917-2022) who was organist of York Minster remembered him. John Rothera and his tape recorder … Continue reading →

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Parish Catholicism

Posted on Wednesday, 25 May, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have not written anything here since Holy Week, partly through discouragement, partly through laziness, partly through being taken up by other things. I have been trying to discern what made Christianity “work” in the past. Simply, it was the … Continue reading →

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Holy Week 2022

Posted on Friday, 8 April, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In two days is Palm Sunday and then the profoundly mysterious Holy Week containing ceremonies that we celebrate just once a year. I have to look through the ceremonies in case I have become “rusty” since last year. The space … Continue reading →

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Northern Brittany

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I haven’t done very much on this blog for a long time, since I became preoccupied with the situation in the Ukraine. It is still a worry for us all, out of empathy in people driven out of their homes … Continue reading →

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Is Putin a Romantic?

Posted on Sunday, 13 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I found it quite difficult to recollect myself for Mass this morning as a thought kept stabbing into my mind – the similarity between Aleksandr Dugin’s ideas, representing Russian and European New-Right traditionalism and Romanticism, at least on the surface. … Continue reading →

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Pushkin, not Putin

Posted on Saturday, 12 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I try to understand the present crisis in philosophical terms. I am alarmed about Russia and its culture being “cancelled” and demonised. Like most people in the part of the world where I live, I believe that Putin is wrong … Continue reading →

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The Long Table

Posted on Tuesday, 8 March, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A number of journalists have wondered why Putin only talks to people from each end of an enormously long table.Perhaps it is to avoid assassination by poisoning, something for which the Russians (or at least the re-named KGB and dark … Continue reading →

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Lenten Iconoclasm

Posted on Monday, 28 February, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a couple of days early, but my little oratory is in Lenten Array for the first time. I modified the altar frontal from the old chapel to fit the smaller altar and to eliminate the wooden frame. The … Continue reading →

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Traditional Anglican Church in Britain

Posted on Monday, 21 February, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been contacted by Fr Michael Gray of The Traditional Anglican Church in Britain. He asked me to update the link in the sidebar of this blog. He refers me to the site of the TAC, which now refers … Continue reading →

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Ten Years

Posted on Sunday, 30 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have overshot the tenth anniversary of this blog. The first posting was Invitation of 17th January 2012, in which my desire for change was apparent. Change from what? I had been one of the co-authors of The Anglo-Catholic (now … Continue reading →

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