Tag Archives: Spirituality

Ars moriendi

Posted on Friday, 27 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

There are some fine autumn thoughts on Rad Trad‘s blog in I’m Going to Die. He reassures us that he hasn’t been diagnosed with cancer or anything like that. However, he is right, whether it is cancer, a heart attack, … Continue reading →

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The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.

Posted on Monday, 23 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit : a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. This verse leapt out to me as I read this pearl of wisdom – A Place for the Damaged. It … Continue reading →

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What would we die for?

Posted on Monday, 16 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

This really does seem to be the lesson that is being taught us these days as our comfortable consumer life is being challenged. I can drive to the places where last Friday’s atrocities happened in only two hours. It is … Continue reading →

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The Proto-History of the Roman Liturgical Reform

Posted on Thursday, 12 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here is an article I posted on The Anglo-Catholic in April 2010. I was reminded of it on reading the Rad Trad’s The Jansenist Church, which may have been inspired to some extent by my own response to Fr Blake’s … Continue reading →

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Nihil operi Dei praeponatur

Posted on Wednesday, 11 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Nothing is to be preferred to the Work of God. These are words of wisdom from the holy Rule of St Benedict. The Work of God, the Opus Dei, is not a Roman Catholic order of dour-faced priests but the … Continue reading →

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Shrift and Housel

Posted on Wednesday, 11 November, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I quite often look at Fr Ray Blake’s blog, and found What have we come to? Fr Blake is a Roman Catholic priest in Brighton and shows a considerable amount of pastoral insight for his long experience in his parish. … Continue reading →

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More liturgical matters

Posted on Friday, 16 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Again, I go into a subject from which there is little to conclude definitively. I do so because there have been a few exchanges between one blog and another. The real issue I read in these various posts is one … Continue reading →

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Mass of the Five Wounds

Posted on Monday, 12 October, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I had a comment asking for the English text of the Votive Mass of the Five Wounds, featuring in the Sarum missal and the fine translation by Canon Warren. It is a very beautiful devotion, paralleling devotion to the Sacred … Continue reading →

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Christian Romanticism

Posted on Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

We don’t seem to see an end to the depressing binary dialectic between “cultural Christianity” and conservative Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodoxy, especially in the American scene. This side of the Atlantic, outside imported American religion, Christianity is decaying like its … Continue reading →

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Daemonium Meridianum

Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2015 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Most of us are familiar with Psalm 90 (91) which is said every evening at Compline, that wonderful intimate Office that monks sing by heart in the darkness. As Christ was comforted and protected in the desert, despite the Devil … Continue reading →

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