Tag Archives: Holy Week

Holy Week 2022

Posted on Friday, 8 April, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In two days is Palm Sunday and then the profoundly mysterious Holy Week containing ceremonies that we celebrate just once a year. I have to look through the ceremonies in case I have become “rusty” since last year. The space … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Conference for the Triduum

Posted on Wednesday, 8 April, 2020 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

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Sepulto Domino

Posted on Friday, 19 April, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the Use of Sarum, we don’t use an altar of repose. The second two hosts of Maundy Thursday are simply put into the hanging pyx. On Good Friday, after the Liturgy of the Presanctified, the third host is put … Continue reading →

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As Holy Week approaches

Posted on Saturday, 13 April, 2019 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It has been nearly three weeks since I wrote anything. The smoggy air seems to have cleared a little as has my anxiety over the political situation in England. I probably understand things a lot better as I see the … Continue reading →

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The Stripping of the Altars

Posted on Thursday, 29 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There are several meanings to this ceremony, in particular the historical remnant of the practice of dressing and stripping the altar after each Mass. The Jansenists of the Pseudo-Synod of Pistoia attempted to revive this practice, as did many “experts” … Continue reading →

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Spy Wednesday

Posted on Wednesday, 28 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is the day when Christians are mortified by thinking about the treachery of Judas. I have books and articles about old Gnostic ideas according to which Judas did this deed according to the wishes of Christ. I read these … Continue reading →

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Holy Week

Posted on Tuesday, 27 March, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We arrive at Tuesday of Holy Week. It seemed odd to celebrate the Annunciation yesterday as the Use of Sarum allows. I have already posted on this subject, and wondered whether I should defer the Annunciation to after the Octave … Continue reading →

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The Stripping of the Altars

Posted on Thursday, 13 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As the liturgy of Maundy Thursday instructed me to strip and wash the altars of my chapel, the thought came into mind of the title of a famous book by the historian Dr Eamon Duffy. His subject was the English … Continue reading →

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A Reflection for Holy Week

Posted on Monday, 10 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Doing my rounds this morning, I came across this article The Virtue of Despair. I immediately identified with the reflection of the nihilist philosopher Nietzsche: Out of such abysses, from such severe sickness one returns newborn, having shed one’s skin, … Continue reading →

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Bootleg Liturgy under Prohibition

Posted on Thursday, 7 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I couldn’t resist the temptation, since I have been offering reflections on drugs, addiction and prohibition. I can almost imaging the cops in some American village descending on a church and demanding to see what books are on the altar … Continue reading →

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