Author Archives: Fr Anthony Chadwick

Dr Winch’s Gregorian Club

Posted on Thursday, 25 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am dwelling somewhat on Dr Raymond Winch (1921-2000), because I think I have some understanding of his thought underneath the enthusiastic rhetoric of his desire to get western rites accepted by existing Eastern Orthodox Churches. This understanding was brought … Continue reading →

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Our New Pro-Cathedral in the UK

Posted on Wednesday, 24 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Click on the photo for an enlargement. I have been following the developments of my Bishop’s new church near Faversham in Kent, and this photo has appeared just after the carpeting was laid and the windows covered with a special … Continue reading →

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Notes by Dr. Ray Winch

Posted on Wednesday, 24 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have quite a few handwritten notes by Ray Winch which illustrate his view on the contrast between the Catholicism of his youth (1940’s and 50’s) and the medieval status quo. I remember the nights of discussion when I had … Continue reading →

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Dr Ray Winch reinvented

Posted on Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It was quite a while ago when I wrote about Dr Raymond Winch in Oxford. Simply, I was browsing through Blackwell’s Bookshop in the early days of Holy Week 1988 and came across The Canonical Mass of the English Orthodox. … Continue reading →

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A Different View of Diversity

Posted on Wednesday, 17 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my daily rounds of the Internet, I try to keep to things that are inspiring and positive, unlike news (whether fake or “official”), but I could not resist a comparison between someone giving a personal answer to the question … Continue reading →

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Novalis

Posted on Friday, 12 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite … Continue reading →

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Where it all happens

Posted on Wednesday, 10 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been doing a massive job of reorganising my scriptorium, or in less pretentious terms, my office. It’s still not finished, but it is operational for my translating jobs and other uses I make of my computer including this … Continue reading →

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The Potomac two-step

Posted on Monday, 8 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On receiving an e-mail from a correspondent in Belgium this morning, I was reminded of a film I once saw of Harrison Ford with a fictitious American President. The President reminds Ford about the realities of Washington politics and the … Continue reading →

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Another response to my brother priest

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As promised, since I am well advanced with my translation orders that have to be delivered tomorrow. I have done about 26,000 words in only four days, but with the help of automatic translation – a very good and intuitive … Continue reading →

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Some Trumpish Levity

Posted on Sunday, 7 January, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I really do try to stay off politics on this blog, but I found this amazing cartoon on Facebook. The political correctness obviously refers to the notion expressed by Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, whereby conformity to an ideology takes precedence … Continue reading →

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