Tag Archives: Liturgy

Tuck Box Chapel

Following on from my previous article, it occurs to me that I have never shown my tuck box chapel. A schoolboy’s tuck box is perhaps his most important piece of standard equipment at an English boarding school. It goes with … Continue reading

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Temporary Altars

I am overjoyed that the Anglican Catholic Fellowship (our diocese in England)  is ministering to house groups and isolated folk. One such group is being established in Whitby, the north-eastern port that represents my own roots and means a great … Continue reading

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Sarum Calendar

Sarum Ordo 2014 PDF file to be opened with Adobe Acrobat I haven’t always published the Sarum calendar here, but here is the one that begins on the first Sunday of Advent (1st December 2013) and ends on Sunday 30th … Continue reading

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Offertory Prayers “Reprint”

Here’s an old article on the offertory prayers I originally wrote for the Anglo-Catholic blog in its heyday. Link. Given the date (January 2010), I was writing in view to speculating what kind of liturgy would be used in the … Continue reading

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Ordinariate Liturgy Links

Dr William Tighe has sent out a circular e-mail, and I think it would be of interest to readers here. Most of us know that the Ordinariate rite of Mass is now rolled out and no longer secret. I quote: … Continue reading

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Bells and Smells?

Many of them, like Fr. Chadwick, are there [in the ACC] mainly because of the “smells and bells.” * * * Mmm… I am very rarely in England these days, so joining a Church because it uses incense and jangles … Continue reading

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Liturgical Christianity

I went through my morning routine of drinking coffee and looking at my e-mail and blog comments. One by Christopher William McAvoy stood out on the Orthodox Blow-Out Department. Without reproducing it here, it contains a theme that is close … Continue reading

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Interesting Thread

Following from an earlier post English Use, there has been some interest taken in the painting of the solemn Mass in Amiens Cathedral sometime in the early nineteenth century. See Need help identifying… Indeed the “wizard hats” and tridents of the … Continue reading

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Dreary Mass

Interesting article by Damian Thompson – ‘Draw your favourite part of the Mass’, said the RE teacher. Big mistake. We priests seem to take it for granted that the laity are as much “into” liturgy as we priests are. Apart … Continue reading

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Mysticism and Asceticism

There is an extremely interesting article from the Latin Mass Society Chairman Joseph Shaw in his blog – Mystical not ascetic: a response to Pope Francis, Part 5. This is the last part of a series of articles on Pope … Continue reading

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