Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Transitus Domini

Posted on Monday, 9 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to share with you a blog version of a seminar I prepared when I was up at Fribourg. This is a subject that is highly appropriate for Lent as well as Holy Week and Easter. At the … Continue reading →

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Traditional Anglican Church in Britain

Posted on Thursday, 5 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just received an e-mail from Fr Michael Gray of the Traditional Anglican Church in Britain, containing the following: We have been trying to make a fresh start on a web site since the previous one was corrupted. The … Continue reading →

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Anglican Catholicism, a twitch upon the thread

Posted on Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been looking at a fascinating thread on the Anglican Ordinariate Forum on Facebook. Some of those people reflect well, among those of a more fearful disposition. I will try to give a general gist of some of these … Continue reading →

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Radical secularisation?

Posted on Sunday, 1 March, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been having more of a look through the website of the Nordic Catholic Church, and in particular a short posting by Bishop Flemestad on The Church of the Future. The thought appears to be cogent, since it is … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Catholic Church and Gnosticism

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Update from 5th March 2020. I have received various bits of new information and I am concerned not to be an obstacle in the developing relationship between our churches. Bishop Flemestad has a remarkably lucid philosophical view of the fundamental … Continue reading →

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Romantic Reconstruction or Intellectual Prestige

Posted on Thursday, 27 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The question keeps nagging away in my mind. A little handful of people in the past and today keep producing books and articles about the Rite / Use of Sarum but cannot get through the barrier represented by the fact … Continue reading →

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Modern attempts to revive the Use of Sarum

Posted on Tuesday, 25 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For the sake of completeness, I published the following article on my old and long-defunct blog on 17th July 2006. Indeed it is a long time that I have been banging the drum, but my philosophical basis has evolved. The … Continue reading →

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Liturgical Ressourcement

Posted on Sunday, 23 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have made yet another discovery, of a blog on the liturgy with a difference – Canticum Salomonis, a blog for liturgical ressourcement. I was brought to this blog by my stats page which tells me which sites link to … Continue reading →

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A Twitch on the Sarum Thread

Posted on Wednesday, 19 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just published this new book after quite a lot of feverish writing and recycling of some of my blog work. I have also included Canon Warren’s translation of the Order of Mass with the rubrics (in italics). See … Continue reading →

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The Sarum Effect

Posted on Tuesday, 18 February, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The recent Sarum Vespers in America has made quite an impression, as The Legitimacy of the Sarum Use attests. Our Rad Trad (I wish he wouldn’t use that name!) has often come up with extraordinarily sensitive reflections. I have always … Continue reading →

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