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Romantia

Posted on Sunday, 29 October, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This provocative title, Romantia, evokes an alternative world from the same kind of imagination as Novalis’ Christenheit oder Europa or indeed the ideas expressed in Chateaubriand’s Génie du Christianisme. Novalis is a pen name of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von Hardenberg, (1772-1801), … Continue reading →

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Sarum Ordo 2023-2024

Posted on Saturday, 14 October, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just compiled a Sarum ordo for 2023-2024 in collaboration with Fr Andrew Scurr following the perpetual calendar of Dr William Renwick and the Pie. Please notify me in case of errors. https://civitas-dei.eu/Ordo_Sarum_2023-2024.pdf

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Redon

Posted on Sunday, 8 October, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my first day on the Vilaine, I took advantage of the Cran bridge opening at its scheduled time and motored towards Redon, a town in Brittany but inland. These are photos I took which give something of the Breton … Continue reading →

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Liminal Mariners

Posted on Sunday, 8 October, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been sailing several times this year, living aboard for up to a week to ten days. There are three ways to go sailing: with a massive and extremely well organised and planned event like the Semaine du Golfe, … Continue reading →

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Metamodernism?

Posted on Friday, 18 August, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Whatever next? We had modernism, not only theological but also cultural and philosophical. Next we had post-modernism, a phase of relativism, nihilism and cynicism (the cost of everything but the value of nothing, to quote Oscar Wilde). Here is a talk … Continue reading →

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Dark Satanic Mills Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 16 August, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was someone very enigmatic as I have already mentioned in my earlier article Dark Satanic Mills which is a quote from the famous poem Jerusalem set to music by Sir Hubert Parry. Parry seems to make … Continue reading →

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The Inkling – Beyond Romanticism

Posted on Friday, 28 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My spiritual life has been in quite a chaotic phase for some years, in particular after my separation a little over two years ago. That was a part of a vast overhaul of my own consciousness and Christian belief. Already, … Continue reading →

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What is the Church?

Posted on Saturday, 22 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

From my isolation as an Anglican Catholic priest here in north-western France, I am discovering a different notion of Christianity. It is plain that if I stick up a sign outside my house saying “Anglican Catholic Church” and advertising a … Continue reading →

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Out of the Ashes

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am gathering my thoughts in regard to seeing the modern western world as something akin to France in the wake of the Terror. The guillotine did its grisly task and the bodies of the dead are buried in the … Continue reading →

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A Monty Python Sketch?

Posted on Monday, 8 May, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Today, I watched an interview with John Cleese who is most known for his role in the Monty Python shows and as Q in the later James Bond films. ‘I couldn’t stop laughing… All these people in these silly costumes, … Continue reading →

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