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Christmas 2021

Posted on Sunday, 26 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My reflection on Christmas is fairly unusual in that I spent this great feast of the Incarnation of the λόγος alone. I was about to say for the first time, but it was also the case when I was living … Continue reading →

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A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Posted on Monday, 20 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols Hymn: Once in royal David’s city. English Hymnal no. 605 The Bidding Prayer Organ: J.S. Bach, Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt. BWV 637 Lesson 1 Organ: J.S. Bach, Es ist das Heil … Continue reading →

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O Adonay and O Radix Jesse

Posted on Saturday, 18 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I forgot to post yesterday’s O antiphon devotion, so it is here. O Lord and Ruler of the house of Israel, who didst appear to Moses in a burning bush, and didst give him the law on Sinai: Come and … Continue reading →

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O Sapientia 2021

Posted on Thursday, 16 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am doing a series of Advents devotions based on the great “O” antiphons from the Sarum Office. O Wisdom, who didst issue out of the mouth of the most High, and dost reach from one end of the world … Continue reading →

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Fourth Sunday of Advent

Posted on Saturday, 19 December, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am still nervously exhausted and will not be recording anything. The only thing I can do presently to bring anything good to others is by writing. Like Lent, this is a holy season that brings us the joy of … Continue reading →

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Midnight Mass

Posted on Monday, 24 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here’s my chapel and Crib at this most magical feast of the liturgical calendar. CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,1 JESU, the Father’s only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, … Continue reading →

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Saint Claus

Posted on Thursday, 6 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This says it all. It’s his feast today. The name Claus comes from the German Klaus, meaning Nicholas.

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Sol Invictus and the Rite of Spring

Posted on Sunday, 2 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We Christians usually come out with the same gripe each year when supermarkets start selling Christmas goods in October and Easter eggs and chocolate for children are on the shelves before the Epiphany Octave is over! Perhaps there is something … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas!

Posted on Saturday, 23 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m sending out this somewhat secular e-Christmas card to all my readers, but depictions of the Nativity of Christ can be found in my greeting postings of previous years. So I have found this nice painting of Saint (Nic)Claus transposed … Continue reading →

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O Sapientia

Posted on Saturday, 16 December, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It all starts today in the Use of Sarum, because we have an extra O antiphon, O Virgo virginum. Here is an article on The Other Major Antiphons for the End of Advent which contains a link to another fine NLM … Continue reading →

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