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Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick
Sturm und Drang
It sometimes happens that I give the same title to two different postings. The last time was in January 2017 when I discussed Christian eschatology. Indeed as we approach Advent I find a number of Catholic and Orthodox bishops discussing … Continue reading
Guillotine et Bouffe-Curé?
I received a kind message from an American friend forwarding me this text about the closure of churches during the present lockdown in France. Dear friends, I would like to ask for your prayers for Catholics in France, who are … Continue reading
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite
I have been looking at an old article from 2013 on Western Rite Orthodoxy, a new proposition. I am staggered by the number of comments that followed my review of some ideas put out by Fr Anthony Bondi of the Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged Church, Continuing Anglicanism, Pastoral matters, Spirituality, Western Rite Orthodoxy
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Flogged and Excommunicated!
During my stay more than twenty years ago with the monks at the Abbey of Triors, I was quite surprised by some of the chapters of the Rule of St Benedict. No community I know of uses corporal punishment, but … Continue reading
Trinity XXII
Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity in the Use of Sarum.
Fair Discussion and Heterodoxy
Exactly like at the time of the first lockdown, I am dismayed about how eminent experts on epidemics and viruses are shouted down and subject to ad hominem attacks, especially with political overtones. I already wrote a couple of articles, … Continue reading
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Tagged Conspiracy theory, Covid-19 pandemic, Criticism, Faith and Reason, Medicine, Scepticism, Science
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All Souls 2020
Sarum Mass of All Souls, a sorely needed consolation in our time of anxiety and being reminded of our mortality. The vestments are believed to have been discarded by a church in Avignon in the 1970’s and they were given … Continue reading
Requiem aeternam
This is the version completed by Franz Xavier Suessmayr This text, along with all the musical settings it inspired, speaks of terror, anguish, grief – but yet peace, hope and serenity in the face of our own mortality and our … Continue reading
All Saints 2020
Here is my Mass of today. We in France are in lockdown, and British people have still been able to go to church today.
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All Saints “in Coronatide”
Here is my spiritual conference for All Saints. Mass of the Feast will be celebrated tomorrow.
The Blue Flower 