Tag Archives: Liturgy

Liturgical Nihilism

Posted on Wednesday, 6 July, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For those who read French, I draw your attention to Le pape François laisse entendre que l’attachement au rite tridentin constitue un produit du nihilisme. This is a fascinating article from the French Catholic periodical La Croix by the theologian … Continue reading →

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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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Self-Effacement and the Liturgy

Posted on Thursday, 18 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a really impressive article by Archbishop Mark Haverland, Metropolitan of the Original Province of the Anglican Catholic Church. He is also my Ordinary and therefore my father-in-Christ. He has written this article in his blog Anglican Catholic Liturgy … Continue reading →

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Straf! Straf! Straf alles!

Posted on Monday, 16 August, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A comment from Patrick Sheridan (who is open about his identity) brought me to look at his blog where he writes only rarely. I quoted the Naval officer on the subject of excessive punishment of sailors and its negative effect … Continue reading →

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Dom Alcuin Reid on Traditionis Custodes

Posted on Monday, 9 August, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my daily rounds of my bookmarked websites, I often find interesting things in The New Liturgical Movement. We are indeed far from the heady days of 2005, the year when Benedict XVI was elected and I joined the TAC. … Continue reading →

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Terrific Interview

Posted on Thursday, 29 July, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is a terrific interview of Robert Moynihan. He thinks this new challenge will cause the movement for the traditional liturgy to awaken and grow. He talks quite a lot about Annibale Bugnini, the bête noire of the liturgical reform. … Continue reading →

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Fr Claude Barthe on Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio

Posted on Thursday, 29 July, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Fr Claude Barthe is a French traditionalist Roman Catholic priest. I have read several of his books and I greatly esteem his capacity for rational analysis. I last saw him in 2009 at a conference in Versailles about the developments … Continue reading →

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Roman Catholic Woes

Posted on Monday, 19 July, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am one of relatively few who has swum the Tiber both ways, return journey. I left the Church of England and returned to Anglicanism via the Continuum. I experienced the traditionalist world at first hand. I knew the most … Continue reading →

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Liturgical Wars

Posted on Wednesday, 16 June, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have not commented on the recent reports about Pope Francis wanting to restrict the older Roman liturgy in opposition to the legislation of his predecessor Benedict XVI. It is not my war, but I am ready to listen to … Continue reading →

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Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal

Posted on Tuesday, 2 February, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A very kind friend bought and sent me a copy of R.J. Urquhart’s Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal. It is not a book I would have bought myself given its high price set by the publisher T&T Clark. I was … Continue reading →

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