Tag Archives: Liturgy

Straining at the Leash?

Posted on Thursday, 9 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Archbishop Peter Robinson wrote in Facebook: One of the things that is quite characteristic of modern Anglicanism, it seems, is its ability to ignore its own statements on doctrine, discipline, and worship. One area in which this is particularly evident … Continue reading →

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Liturgical Arts Journal

Posted on Friday, 3 November, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The launch of the Liturgical Arts Journal is very good news indeed. It was set up by a young Roman Catholic layman, Shawn Tribe, who set up the New Liturgical Movement in 2005 and withdrew from active contribution. He explains … Continue reading →

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New Article by Dom Alcuin Reid

Posted on Friday, 27 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

As an extension to my articles of the past few days, I was quite excited upon discovering Liturgy, Authority, and Postmodernity by Dom Alcuin Reid, an Australian Benedictine monk in a small monastery in the south of France. I have … Continue reading →

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The Trio

Posted on Thursday, 26 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am sure I will one day find another nickname for the little trio comprising Fr Gregory Wassen, Fr Jonathan Munn and your humble (or not humble enough!) servant. Perhaps we might one day organise a little seminar where people … Continue reading →

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Via Media

Posted on Monday, 23 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The title might seem provocative, since Newman’s reaction against that idea figured in his decision to become a Roman Catholic in early nineteenth-century England and Rome. He came up against the “brick wall” of what amounted in the Church of … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Prayer Book

Posted on Saturday, 21 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My brother in the priesthood Fr Jonathan Munn has written some reflections on the Prayer Book in Why I don’t use the Book of Common Prayer. That is certainly a provocative subject, especially with our American brethren identifying as Anglicans, … Continue reading →

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Sarum Ordo on Android

Posted on Saturday, 21 October, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am fairly new to the art of using a smartphone, which I call my “pocket computer that happens also to be a telephone”. I am of a generation (born 1959) that knew the pocket calculator as the nec plus … Continue reading →

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Another Cheap Shot

Posted on Monday, 25 September, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

John Bruce keeps churning them out. They all add up to the same thing: Continuing Anglicanism and the Ordinariates are trash and you have to be a “proper Catholic” (whatever that means nowadays). I usually don’t bother, even though my … Continue reading →

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Missal Stands

Posted on Monday, 11 September, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just made an improved missal stand for my travelling chapel, because before it was resting on two triangular feet which got in the way of things like the corporal on a very restricted space. I adopted the column … Continue reading →

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Liturgical Minimalism

Posted on Friday, 8 September, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

John Beeler (who regularly writes on Facebook but rarely in his blog) wrote an interesting entry on Facebook about “no-frills Catholicism” showing an Ordinariate Mass in a rather kitschy modern church. This is apparently somewhere in the USA. One comment … Continue reading →

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