Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Young Organists

Posted on Saturday, 18 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is Richard McWeigh, an English cathedral musician who is popularising organ music and a simple spirituality on YouTube. We are blessed by modern technology in giving us the Hauptwerk organ, recordings of each note and each stop of a … Continue reading →

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O Sapientia 2021

Posted on Thursday, 16 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am doing a series of Advents devotions based on the great “O” antiphons from the Sarum Office. O Wisdom, who didst issue out of the mouth of the most High, and dost reach from one end of the world … Continue reading →

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Flogging made a bad man worse, and broke a good man’s heart

Posted on Tuesday, 14 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I answered another message about someone’s ideas about a political regime based on Old Testament law as advocated by the Reconstructionist movement. I have just found this video which is heavy going for one who is not used to American … Continue reading →

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Christian Integralism and Humanism

Posted on Monday, 13 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This talk was inspired by some correspondence with a person who is wondering about what I would call a fundamentalist and puritan Christian totalitarian theocracy. I give a few elements of my refusal of such a system in favour of … Continue reading →

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Archbishop John Hepworth RIP

Posted on Saturday, 11 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Of your charity, please pray for the soul of Archbishop John Hepworth who passed away on 1st December 2021 from an illness unrelated to the present pandemic. We should not forget that he was ordained a priest in the Roman … Continue reading →

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Beauty for Ashes

Posted on Monday, 6 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As I prepared to say Mass today of the Feast of St Nicholas of Myra, three little words came into my mind and filled all my thoughts – Beauty for ashes. They come from Isaiah 61. The Spirit of the … Continue reading →

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Second Sunday of Advent

Posted on Friday, 3 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is the second of this series of devotions and organ music for the Sundays of Advent J.S. Bach, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 739 St Paul announces the Messiah of all Jews and Gentiles alike. And there shall … Continue reading →

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The Lost Chord

Posted on Tuesday, 30 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the early 1990’s a friend in London introduced me to a periodical and a series of cassette tapes intended to reproduce the style of the BBC Home Service of before World War II. I wrote about this stuff long … Continue reading →

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First Sunday of Advent

Posted on Friday, 26 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been thinking about some kind of outreach since the time I recorded Mass in my old chapel. The events in my life up to and since last April and my move here to the Mayenne affected me very … Continue reading →

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If Music be the Food of Love…

Posted on Thursday, 25 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just been listening to a conversation between three French priests and two informed layman on a YouTube forum by the name of Club des Hommes en Noir hosted by the French Catholic journal L’Homme Nouveau. Que signifie “être … Continue reading →

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