Tag Archives: Reflections

Wachet auf!

Posted on Monday, 5 December, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The same theme keeps coming back into my mind as I live some very special moments in my life. I have deliberately chosen the title that reminds us of the Bach cantata to which I linked a week ago, Wachet … Continue reading →

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The Important Things

Posted on Thursday, 1 December, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have been through a time of sadness and anxiety, which I have shared with my father and my Bishop. Discretion demands that I should not give any details in this public blog, but rather to seek positive meanings in … Continue reading →

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Thoughts from the November Gloom

Posted on Wednesday, 23 November, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Naturally, the title of this posting only applies to those living in the northern hemisphere. The heavenly cycles go their way as predictably as a clock as it measures the cycles of time that mark our life and death in … Continue reading →

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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

Posted on Wednesday, 9 November, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am following the news which is now breaking in America, now in the small hours of the morning in East Coast Time. Many are cheering and exulting the almost gained victory of Trump. A few see this thing from … Continue reading →

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End of the Season

Posted on Thursday, 3 November, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is always a sad time of year, wintering boats. I spent a pleasant weekend at Barfleur and had a couple of short outings in Sarum in a gentle east wind blowing to a lee shore. It was truly weather … Continue reading →

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A glimmer of hope?

Posted on Saturday, 29 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I do my best to keep the hysteria at bay faced with the American election, the French equivalent next year and Brexit. Conspiracy theorists and fundamentalist Christians love to produce videos telling us that the end is nigh due to … Continue reading →

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New Oxford Movement

Posted on Friday, 28 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just seen something from Fr Anthony Clavier on Facebook about the question of a new Oxford Movement, with a quote from an inaccessible website: We shouldn’t compromise the traditions of High Church worship. But if we think the … Continue reading →

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Benedict Option Revisited

Posted on Wednesday, 26 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Rod Dreher has just published The Religious Right: A Eulogy. I have no personal experience of American religion other than a short year with an expatriate American community called the Oblates of Wisdom in Rome in 1985-86. American Roman Catholicism … Continue reading →

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Sensuality

Posted on Thursday, 6 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There is something of the Epicurian in this posting. As Oscar Wilde once said: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things … Continue reading →

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A New Dawn

Posted on Tuesday, 4 October, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This entry more or less started as I took my boat out yesterday afternoon on the sea from Veules les Roses. The north-east wind was light and there was little swell. I close hauled into the wind and the tidal … Continue reading →

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