Monthly Archives: December 2018

This Blog’s Future

Posted on Sunday, 30 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I began this blog six years ago, in January 2012 at a time when The Anglo-Catholic blog had no more use for me and I deleted The English Catholic. I think many of us remember the turmoil and the clash … Continue reading →

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Conservatives and Liberals

Posted on Sunday, 30 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I have just been reading the highly astute posting of Fr Jonathan Munn Blogday 2018: Oh! Grow up! Schoolmasters usually have experience in the shortcomings of human nature among children and adolescents who often find excuses to cover laziness and other … Continue reading →

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Midnight Mass

Posted on Monday, 24 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Here’s my chapel and Crib at this most magical feast of the liturgical calendar. CHRISTE, Redemptor omnium, ex Patre, Patris unice, solus ante principium natus ineffabiliter,1 JESU, the Father’s only Son, whose death for all redemption won, before the worlds, … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas to all my Readers

Posted on Monday, 24 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I would like to wish all my readers a happy Christmas. For some, Christmas is the prefiguration of that day sometime in the future when our divided humanity will be recapitulated and incorporated into the divinity of Christ the Incarnate … Continue reading →

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New Unity

Posted on Sunday, 23 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I am just about set for the organ removal from Newington Green Unitarian church to re-install the instrument in the parish church of Vermenton in the Yonne region of France. I have been making use of the skills I acquired … Continue reading →

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Sol Invictus!

Posted on Friday, 21 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Today is St Thomas and the winter solstice here in the northern hemisphere. Let the daylight not only be unconquered but grow as a sign of grace from the Incarnate Son of God!

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Blue Flower delayed

Posted on Thursday, 20 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

I’m afraid the Blue Flower normally scheduled for Christmas 2018 is going to have to be delayed. One reason is a series of vast technical translation orders taking up time and energy. Bread-earning work has to take priority. Another, frankly, … Continue reading →

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Cry to the Night

Posted on Wednesday, 19 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Words fail me as I look at the news and Facebook pages and see the blindness descending upon England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It now seems late in the day to denounce details of the political process leading to … Continue reading →

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Simplifying Things…

Posted on Sunday, 16 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

It is Gaudete Sunday (3rd of Advent) and O Sapientia in the Use of Sarum. I am feeling very worn down by the comings and going of the efforts of Mrs Theresa May to save her “deal” with a Parliament … Continue reading →

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The Possessed

Posted on Tuesday, 11 December, 2018 by Fr Anthony Chadwick

Not having written anything political since the third of this month, I have to say that the last couple of days have shaken me to the core. Two heads of state, for totally different reasons, are at the point of … Continue reading →

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