Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Missing the Essential

Posted on Wednesday, 24 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just come across the article Tragic Worship by Carl R. Trueman in First Things. This is something I have noticed in popular culture, notably the enthusiasm we have for celebrities like the ancients for heroes and demi-gods. I … Continue reading →

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence!

Posted on Thursday, 18 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Grab yours before it’s too late! So commercial advertising blares out to the world. The British mainstream left-wing press has published Vatican offers ‘time off purgatory’ to followers of Pope Francis tweets. The article seems pretty sick, and I can … Continue reading →

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Anglican Catholic Unity

Posted on Wednesday, 17 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is a heads-up on another article by Deacon Jonathan Munn – Anglican Catholic Unity. If comments have to be from a low church or “classical Anglican” point of view, please use the Classical Anglican Blow-Out Department. Deacon Munn obvious sets out … Continue reading →

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Museum Christianity?

Posted on Monday, 15 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have no desire to speculate on the ins and outs of western Christians who decide to embrace Orthodoxy. Many do and find happiness in the eastern liturgical and spiritual tradition, especially with the Russians, a half-way house between Byzantium … Continue reading →

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Dum esset Rex

Posted on Monday, 15 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This was an old joke, referring to an antiphon of the Vespers of Our Lady, between a liturgically articulate friend and myself when talking about my dog Rex. Dum esset rex in accubitu suo, nardus mea dedit odorem suavitatis. We … Continue reading →

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The Underlying Aspiration

Posted on Sunday, 14 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update: increasing numbers of comments here – some incredibly intolerant, others on the mark – you decide… The Roman Catholic Church at least has a system of canon law designed to be both predictable and equitable. The only kind of … Continue reading →

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Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia Rains on the Parade

Posted on Saturday, 13 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update: a couple of blogs discussing the question with some interesting comments: Modestinus. Byzantine, TX. HT – Young Fogey on ROCOR stops its Western Rite * * * I put his link – ROCOR Synod meeting – on the Orthodox … Continue reading →

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Pristinos dies?

Posted on Thursday, 11 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The title comes from the Vulgate version of Hebrews x.32: Rememoramini autem pristinos dies in quibus inluminati magnum certamen sustinuistis passionum But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings This … Continue reading →

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The Barque of Peter?

Posted on Wednesday, 10 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I love this one! Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the island of Lampedusa and someone seems to want the celebration to be relevant to seamen. Well, let’s see. The vessel seems to be about eight feet in length excluding the … Continue reading →

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Mystical Aestheticism

Posted on Wednesday, 10 July, 2013 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I come to a subject that is quite related to some other posts I have written on Romanticism and “neo-medievalism” in the nineteenth century and up to the outbreak of World War I. This term is coined by Embryo Parson … Continue reading →

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