Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Prayers for my Parents

Posted on Thursday, 23 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I ask your prayers for my parents Jim and Margaret Chadwick on the occasion of their Diamond Wedding (60 years). They were married on 5th August 1952 at Elstead Parish Church in Surrey, the same year as the Accession of … Continue reading →

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But before we can start awarding ourselves Victoria Crosses…

Posted on Thursday, 23 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is a line from a World War II film in which a small group of commandos destroy a dam in Yugoslavia to stop the Germans from getting to a vital strategic place over an almost impossible-to-destroy bridge. Sergeant Miller … Continue reading →

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Ordinariates and Anglicans keeping their legitimacy

Posted on Tuesday, 21 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Smuts has reproduced an article – Vatican Prefers Tanks to Talks to Achieve Unity – that Dr William Tighe sent to a few of us. Read the article over there, as I see no point in reproducing it here. It helped … Continue reading →

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More Voyages of Sophia

Posted on Monday, 20 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We returned to Normandy from our three weeks holiday at Fouras in the Charente Maritime. We were located in a sheltered bay between the Ile d’Oléran, the mainland and the Ile de Re to the north, today linked to La … Continue reading →

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Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?

Posted on Monday, 20 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

An article by the young English blogger Patricius – Assumption thoughts… – brings me to think of one of my favourite pieces of poetry by Walt Whitman: Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating, Adam and Eve appear, then … Continue reading →

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Anglican Liturgy and Monastic Spirituality

Posted on Wednesday, 15 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Deborah Gyapong has published an excellent article quoting some private correspondence she was allowed to reproduce if the author’s identity was kept confidential. On the Anglican tradition’s monastic approach to spirituality. What is distinctive about monastic liturgy as opposed to what … Continue reading →

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TTAC website

Posted on Monday, 13 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The website of the The Traditional Anglican Church – UK  seems to have been taken down. Have any of our English readers any information about any new official site as was promised some months ago? * * * I have … Continue reading →

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Blessed are the poor in spirit

Posted on Saturday, 11 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

What an amazing story as I looked at Young Fogey’s blog! I have nothing to add, but draw your attention to the very antithesis of the “prosperity gospel” and “you are worth your success / money / whatever”. Catholic but … Continue reading →

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Positive and Negative Thinking

Posted on Friday, 10 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I think I have begun to identify a problem of understanding between my way of writing and some of my readers – that is the sacrosanct dogma of “being positive”. I am not an American, but deeply a European. We … Continue reading →

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Sarum Use in the Ordinariates

Posted on Friday, 3 August, 2012 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On a Rorate Caeli post, NLM: “The Potentialities of the English Missal for the Ordinariate and the Roman Rite” there appeared an interesting comment: Actually the only thing that can give the Anglican Ordinariate any long-term prospects is the Sarum … Continue reading →

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