Tag Archives: Spirituality

Bach’s Cantata on Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme

Posted on Saturday, 26 November, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Quoted from the You Tube page: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (1731) Boy Soprano: Alan Bergius Tenor: Kurt Equiluz Bass: Thomas Hampson Chorus master: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden Tölzer Knabenchor Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus musicus Wien I. Chorus: Wachet … 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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Benedict Option

Posted on Thursday, 29 September, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have seen this expression – Benedict Option – being bandied about on the internet. Here is an article by the American conservative Rod Dreher – Benedict Option FAQ. I am sceptical about anything coming from across the Atlantic, because … Continue reading →

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The Romantic Christ

Posted on Wednesday, 28 September, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Romanticism is very difficult to define and many attempts to define it resemble the cold rationalism from which it reacted some two hundred years ago. The subject fascinates me, not only as a historical state of mind in given circumstances … Continue reading →

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The Meaning of Life

Posted on Tuesday, 20 September, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Yes, indeed, the title of a somewhat dumb Monty Python film from 1983 featuring the exploding Mr Creosote. My subject is that eternal question of our times and the whole of human history for as long as meaning has been … Continue reading →

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Was it ever any different?

Posted on Sunday, 28 August, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here’s an interesting article – Fair Warning – Religious Re-engineering in Progress. Quite frankly, is anyone surprised? We had Erastianism in the Church of England, and the French Church under Louis XIV had to say and do the right thing. … Continue reading →

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Der Ubermensch

Posted on Thursday, 25 August, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Perhaps Nietzsche Revisited? I read More From National Review’s David French on Masculinity and thought it would be best to ignore it. I have been brought to think about some of the more provocative stuff I have written in the past. … Continue reading →

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Georges Bernanos and Boredom

Posted on Friday, 5 August, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Georges Bernanos (1888 – 1948) is one of my favourite modern French authors. His best known work is Journal d’un Curé de Campagne, first published in 1936. One would almost see in him the heavy and nihilistic existentialism of Camus … Continue reading →

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Fr Jacques Hamel, Martyr

Posted on Tuesday, 26 July, 2016 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

For the first time in my life, I have said Mass in honour of a Martyr the very day of his death. Until this morning, this retired priest of the Archdiocese of Rouen was helping out in his local parish, … Continue reading →

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