Tag Archives: Liturgy

Classical Catholicism

Posted on Sunday, 3 April, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

In the wake of recent reflections about the Roman Catholic traditionalist world, I am brought to offer a few reflections from my point of view as it developed over the years since I left the Institute of Christ the King … Continue reading →

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Quomodo sedet sola Civitas.

Posted on Friday, 25 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

How doth the city sit solitary… so goes the lamentation of Jeremiah the Prophet. In the Roman rite (and the Anglican Missal), the Blessed Sacrament is taken to the Altar of Repose on Maundy Thursday, and is consumed at the … Continue reading →

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Ritual Housework!

Posted on Thursday, 24 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have seen that a few people have looked at my old site on washing the altars Washing of the Altar on Maundy Thursday. This morning (yes I celebrated the Mass in Coena Domini this morning), I stripped and washed the … Continue reading →

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Holy Week

Posted on Sunday, 20 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Holy Week is upon us once again, and we get ready for long services in my little chapel. This morning for Palm Sunday I was on my own. I set up a lectern in the middle of the chapel for … Continue reading →

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Et in Arcadia Ego II

Posted on Friday, 11 March, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It just goes to show… I tend to regurgitate old stuff and add subtle things to old posts. See Et in Arcadia Ego. At my age, I tend to go on with the same fundamental thoughts. I arrived at Fr Montgomery’s … Continue reading →

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Borscht for Brains

Posted on Wednesday, 9 December, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am increasingly enjoying Fr Hunwicke’s wit and sense of the absurd. The question is asked: Who is entitled to use the Pope Francis Missal? Where have I already seen the nit-picking among some members of the Roman patriarchate? Oh … Continue reading →

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2016 Ordo

Posted on Friday, 4 December, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For those who do not yet have their liturgical calendars, Anglican Catholic Church – based on the 1928 American Prayer Book and the Anglican Missal. It is ordered online. It contains the essential information needed for the Mass and Office, … Continue reading →

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Birettas

Posted on Saturday, 28 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The subject of that odd square hat that goes on round heads has come up in the blog of my dear brother in the priesthood, Fr Jonathan Munn in Get a hat, get a head! I still have the birettas … Continue reading →

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Trying to revive a corpse

Posted on Saturday, 28 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I was slightly amused on reading YF’s posting on the new Ordinariate missal, The ordinariate missal and more. We see the handsomely bound book and one of its pages. All rather exciting, one would think. I haven’t had access to … Continue reading →

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The Proto-History of the Roman Liturgical Reform

Posted on Thursday, 12 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is an article I posted on The Anglo-Catholic in April 2010. I was reminded of it on reading the Rad Trad’s The Jansenist Church, which may have been inspired to some extent by my own response to Fr Blake’s … Continue reading →

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