Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

New Reefing System

Posted on Friday, 29 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is something I have wanted to do for some time. I began to comment on reefing a Mirror dinghy sail and saw the ideas of Mr David Sumner who lives in southern England and is very serious about his … Continue reading →

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How the Use of Sarum Shaped a Village Church

Posted on Friday, 29 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just found this on the New Liturgical Movement, a blog that is quite rich in articles on medieval liturgies – How the Sarum Rite Shaped the Art and Architecture of a Country Church in Devon. The village in … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on Thursday, 28 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

What goes round comes round. Whatever Thanksgiving means to you, I wish my American readers a happy day.

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The “Petite Eglise” of the Deux-Sèvres

Posted on Thursday, 28 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a story of another time in history, which is little known in the English-speaking world. It is one I am posting today for the sake of historical knowledge and our general culture. This phenomenon is obscure because of … Continue reading →

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Around the World in an Open Boat

Posted on Thursday, 28 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just discovered another amazing feat from the annals of seafaring. It is the incredible voyage of Anthony Steward, a South African, who circumnavigated in a nineteen-foot open boat, modified from a coastal trailer-sailer dayboat. No one has done … Continue reading →

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A Better Sarum Calendar

Posted on Tuesday, 26 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I forgot about this very important source of Sarum material, especially the Office. Sarum Chant It includes the Calendar – 2013 for Advent and up to 31st December 2013 and 2014 from 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2014. The … Continue reading →

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Another Plea for a Church of Human Dimensions

Posted on Monday, 25 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother priest Fr Jonathan Munn has written another cri de coeur – Unashamed Idealism. I added a brief comment, suggesting that my old article Rigorism,Tutiorism and Probabilism had some relevance by analysing the roots of the legalistic and judgemental attitude … Continue reading →

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Abolish the Priesthood?

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In view of the weight of claims for the episcopal consecration of women and the “empowerment” of the laity one keeps hearing in French dioceses, I did a search on Google to see if anyone had seriously considered abolishing the … Continue reading →

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Mobile Chapels

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m in the mind to continue this theme. I remember reading a book by Fr Werenfried van Straaten about his work in eastern Germany just after World War II in the flattened and devastated cities. This is one of the … Continue reading →

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Tuck Box Chapel

Posted on Sunday, 24 November, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Following on from my previous article, it occurs to me that I have never shown my tuck box chapel. A schoolboy’s tuck box is perhaps his most important piece of standard equipment at an English boarding school. It goes with … Continue reading →

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