Tag Archives: Personal life

The Voice of God

Posted on Thursday, 20 November, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The voice of God is music – harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, form, inspiration – a whole language that words alone cannot convey. Music can be an instrument of revelation, or one of control and evil. I write this little piece with … Continue reading →

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Returning to Writing

Posted on Thursday, 4 September, 2025 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is a long time since I last wrote on my blog. Perhaps it is a case of writer’s block or any one of those spiritual / psychological conditions that cause us to lose interest in things as our world … Continue reading →

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The Guilded Mirror

Posted on Thursday, 19 December, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I offer these reminiscences of the seminary of Gricigliano on this twenty-fourth anniversary of my Tonsure by Cardinal Pietro Palazzini in Rome. My experience there leaves me without any bitterness towards my former superiors, given that the Institute continues and … Continue reading →

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The Byronic Hero of the Seas

Posted on Monday, 30 September, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It was back in June 2017 when I wrote a piece on that fictional and archetypal figure Captain Nemo. The Nemo Syndrome I bring this subject up simply because I decided to have a relaxing evening watching the 1954 Walt Disney … Continue reading →

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Facebook

Posted on Tuesday, 27 February, 2024 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have come to the decision to stop writing on Facebook except on groups that are not concerned with politics or religion. My account on FB will stay open and those wishing to correspond with me can do so by … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Masturbation

Posted on Monday, 13 November, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I came across an amazing article today – The illusions of abstract philosophy: Thought is never deep. I cast my mind back to university days and my times spent with a friend of Polish origins, English education and living in … Continue reading →

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Dark Satanic Mills Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 16 August, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was someone very enigmatic as I have already mentioned in my earlier article Dark Satanic Mills which is a quote from the famous poem Jerusalem set to music by Sir Hubert Parry. Parry seems to make … Continue reading →

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The Inkling – Beyond Romanticism

Posted on Friday, 28 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

My spiritual life has been in quite a chaotic phase for some years, in particular after my separation a little over two years ago. That was a part of a vast overhaul of my own consciousness and Christian belief. Already, … Continue reading →

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Out of the Ashes

Posted on Tuesday, 11 July, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am gathering my thoughts in regard to seeing the modern western world as something akin to France in the wake of the Terror. The guillotine did its grisly task and the bodies of the dead are buried in the … Continue reading →

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The Mirror

Posted on Tuesday, 10 January, 2023 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Resentment, bigotry, prejudice… When we hear people talking with bitterness and trashing someone who did not deserve such treatment, it is heartbreaking. I have lived through the death of Pope Benedict XVI – from a distance. I have also lived … Continue reading →

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