Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

A Fragment on the End of History

Posted on Tuesday, 13 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I tend to get into somewhat big subjects these days. It is mid February and I haven’t sailed since last October. That alone is no reason to “go off one’s rocker”. Apart from some nasty onsets of anxiety in the … Continue reading →

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Post-Enlightenment

Posted on Sunday, 11 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have discovered this text of Novalis that I would consider to be of capital importance in understanding our own times. We had the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Terror, and finally, Communism and Nazism, and now the spectre … Continue reading →

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Questo Stronzo di Paolo Sesto

Posted on Friday, 9 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of the upcoming canonisation of Pope Paul VI, and my attention drawn to the Rad Trad blog, I find this posting on Fr Gregor Hesse Contra Mundum. I find a link to an earlier article on this … Continue reading →

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More from the Rear End

Posted on Wednesday, 7 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My old friend in California, John Bruce, is having another go in So, What’s Really Going On At St Mary’s? He doesn’t allow comments on his blog, so I will exercise my right to a response here. His “regular correspondent” tried … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, early April 1997 – and a reflection

Posted on Monday, 5 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This letter is undated, but his allusion to Easter 1997 (30th March) would place it around the first week of April. Monastic Lent is not something easy to live through, though guests were allowed meat on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, 7th February 1997

Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

By now, I was staying at the guest house of Triors. Ray gives a slightly different angle on his subject of medieval parish worship, criticising Terence Duffy but without giving details (perhaps we might get lucky in his next letter). … Continue reading →

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Ray Winch, 8th December 1996

Posted on Sunday, 4 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For a little context, I had not written to Ray for some time, and I had returned to France after leaving the Anglican Catholic Church under Bishop Hamlett. I had returned to France and was staying with Fr Jacques Pecha … Continue reading →

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The Blue Flower

Posted on Saturday, 3 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the light of my postings about Dr Ray Winch and the old Gregorian Club, a correspondent suggested that I might set up some kind of quarterly journal which I would set up and publish in a pdf file. I … Continue reading →

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Wisdom for the coming Lent

Posted on Friday, 2 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Our Archdeacon, Fr Ray Thompson, has just sent out a circular message February 2018 My dear friends and colleagues, Do you ever wonder why Jesus went into the desert to be tempted by the devil for forty days? There is … Continue reading →

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Romanticism and Christianity

Posted on Thursday, 1 February, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

At the risk of repeating myself, one is always intrigued by the coincidence between the Oxford Movement and the foundation of Solesmes by Dom Guéranger or the Dominicans in France by Fr Lacordaire. These two extremely significant aspirations were part … Continue reading →

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