Tag Archives: Pastoral matters

New Year Resolution

Posted on Saturday, 7 January, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Some people have the custom of making New Year Resolutions, usually things for better health like giving up drinking alcohol or smoking. Others resolve to keep a tidy home, be better organised at work, many things. How long do such … Continue reading →

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Call for a New Christianity

Posted on Tuesday, 13 December, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I regularly receive e-mails from Dr William Tighe giving links to various bits of news and views about the Church and the moral state of the modern world. I was particularly struck by this title of an article Pope Francis … Continue reading →

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Parish Catholicism

Posted on Wednesday, 25 May, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have not written anything here since Holy Week, partly through discouragement, partly through laziness, partly through being taken up by other things. I have been trying to discern what made Christianity “work” in the past. Simply, it was the … Continue reading →

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The Ungodly Dystopia

Posted on Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

A friend of mine who is a scientist wrote this on his Facebook: * * * “The Church has degenerated into factional disputation. As Paul VI said it is “engaged in a process of self-destruction.” The Magisterium equates “love” with … Continue reading →

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Second Sunday of Advent

Posted on Friday, 3 December, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This is the second of this series of devotions and organ music for the Sundays of Advent J.S. Bach, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 739 St Paul announces the Messiah of all Jews and Gentiles alike. And there shall … Continue reading →

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First Sunday of Advent

Posted on Friday, 26 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been thinking about some kind of outreach since the time I recorded Mass in my old chapel. The events in my life up to and since last April and my move here to the Mayenne affected me very … Continue reading →

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If Music be the Food of Love…

Posted on Thursday, 25 November, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just been listening to a conversation between three French priests and two informed layman on a YouTube forum by the name of Club des Hommes en Noir hosted by the French Catholic journal L’Homme Nouveau. Que signifie “être … 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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The Sign of Contradiction

Posted on Sunday, 31 October, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I awoke from a dream this morning in which I was approached by some priests I knew in the 1990’s, all dead now. They suggested that my canonical situation in regard to the Roman Catholic Church could be “sorted out” … Continue reading →

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Celibacy and Vocation

Posted on Tuesday, 19 October, 2021 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The crisis in France concerning the Church and paedophile clergy festers on with discussions on TV (which I don’t watch except occasionally on YouTube) and Facebook threads. One such is to be found on a group dedicated to the Ordinariate. … Continue reading →

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