about 2 days ago - 9 comments
I have never timed one of the homilies in our little Anglican Catholic Cathedral but on Sunday mornings they are a lot longer than eight minutes. But the secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops has said homilies should be less than that. Here’s an excerpt from a Catholic News Service story by Carol Glatz (my More >
about 4 days ago - 4 comments
My colleague at the Ottawa Citizen, Jennifer Green, has a report in today’s paper on Cardinal William Levada’s talk in Kingston, Ontario Saturday night, March 6.
I will be writing a longer version for Catholic papers that I hope to file about midday today. Here’s an excerpt of Jenny’s piece, with my bolds. I think she More >
about 4 days ago - 6 comments
Oh dear! Embolism? That sounds like a very serious condition requiring immediate medical care. Actually, it is a prayer of the Mass.
I would like to examine another part of the Mass that needs attention for the purposes of a revised authorised Anglican liturgy in the Catholic Church. This is the beginning of what is often More >
about 5 days ago - 25 comments
I would like to advance here a few disordered reflections about the form which an Anglican Use of the Roman Rite might take. These are nothing but my own ill-informed speculations interwoven with my own uninformed notions and prejudices, and should be taken as worth no more than such productions normally are, or perhaps, for More >
about 6 days ago - 1 comment
This is the title of a wonderful little book by Hugh Ross Williamson written in 1955, dedicated to the sacredness and beauty of the Roman Canon, sometimes called the Gregorian Canon. For your meditation and consideration, I reproduce an extract from the introduction of the this book.
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Whether or not Jesus Christ was born More >
about 6 days ago - 14 comments
As some of the older clergy in both Anglican and Catholic traditions are what I would call ‘1970’s dinosaurs’, still thinking about what needs to be discarded in order to be relevant to modern man, some of the younger folk are labouring to recover what the older men spent their careers on destroying. We have More >
about 1 week ago - 22 comments
A comment from Fr Michael Gray drew my attention to the prevailing Anglican usage regarding the celebration of Mass. Indeed, I attended the TAC Bishops’ College meeting, and found most bishops and priests assisting at Mass in the manner of the laity rather than celebrating Mass on the side altars of that lovely church of More >
about 1 week ago - 4 comments
The idea of this article came about on reading some recent comments in The Anglo Catholic, in particular from an Evangelical Anglican who converted to the Catholic Church some time ago. There are others, both courteous and insolent. In a spirit of logic and fairness, I can “hear” the question – “You want to bring More >
about 1 week ago - 14 comments
A few words in an earlier blog about the language of worship, and a great trail of comments followed. Now I know that many Anglicans (of every colour) in the USA are very concerned about Prayer Books, and the more Catholic they are, the more they want to hold on to ancient forms of prayer. More >
about 1 week ago - 11 comments
I have had to comment on a comment coming from a well-known English priest of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia. It is not my intention to raise any polemics against our Eastern Orthodox brethren, I think it is important for you all to know that attempts to create ‘Anglican-friendly’ structures in Orthodoxy are very More >
about 1 month ago
Fr. Chadwick wouldn’t be pleased with the dingbats at my local supermarket. They started selling hot cross buns about a fortnight ago. The commercialists here now run one commemoration right into the next.
P.K.T.P.