Tag Archives: Liturgy

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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Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate

Posted on Saturday, 22 July, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is the famous quote of Dante, most frequently translated as Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. It is a quotation I often remember when walking up some streets in London with the dark glass and steel office buildings … Continue reading →

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New Academic Work on Sarum

Posted on Tuesday, 27 June, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My attention has been drawn to a Master’s thesis by James R. Joseph, M.A. of the University of Dayton: Sarum Use And Disuse: A Study In Social And Liturgical History. This thesis seems to be particularly of interest to those … Continue reading →

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Flattering…

Posted on Tuesday, 30 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This just came in from my editor, Dom Alcuin Reid. I will give a couple of comments after this review by the Jesuit priest Fr Baldovin. * * * T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy. Edited by Alcuin Reid. New York, … Continue reading →

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Superfluity of naughtiness

Posted on Sunday, 14 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

– “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1. xxi – Epistle for the fourth Sunday after Easter). It always brings a smile … Continue reading →

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J. Wickham Legg

Posted on Thursday, 4 May, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

On my morning rounds, I found “Good, or ancient, or Catholic” quoted from J. Wickham Legg. The exact source is not given, but a search on Google reveals his paper read before St Paul’s Ecclesiological Society on 27th October 1887, … Continue reading →

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Eucharistic Devotion

Posted on Friday, 28 April, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Reading one of Cardinal Ratzinger’s books in the 1980’s, I was quite struck by his reminiscences of Corpus Christi processions in Bavaria in places like Altötting and other towns. The tradition spreads into Switzerland in some places, and Fribourg where … Continue reading →

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Early Modern English

Posted on Thursday, 23 February, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Archbishop Haverland has been on Facebook, exhorting us priests to get it right with memorized texts like the doxology after a collect: All traditional clergy should commit to memory the basic rule for expanding a collect ending to full Trinitarian … Continue reading →

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The Return of “And also with you”?

Posted on Saturday, 28 January, 2017 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

With this posting, I am going to bring this new spate of “crisis porn” to a stop. Pope Francis has ordered a review of the new Mass translation He doesn’t speak a word of English. I wonder who he’s going … Continue reading →

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