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The Queen’s funeral: a lesson in reality

Posted on 09/10/2022 by Scott Anderson

By happy chance I was back in the UK for the death and funeral of her late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. It was a moving and quietly emotional time. Since coming back to France I have had so many conversations … Continue reading →

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Infant baptism, the Catechumenate – and Conversion to Christ

Posted on 22/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

It was the seminary/theological college and the curacies which have informed, right through their lives, the attitudes and methods of many priests. Cartainly it’s true for me and for many (ex) Anglicans. So all my life I have struggled with … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – in France

Posted on 16/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

One of my kind readers has asked me to continue the article I wrote last week by describing and comparing the music we use in the liturgy in France. Please realise that my observations are limited to this diocese and … Continue reading →

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When did we stop kneeling?

Posted on 11/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

My grandmother (born in 1891) was brought up as a Baptist though not baptised in adolescence. In fact she was baptised before her marriage to my grandfather, at St Mary’s Weymouth, a stronghold of low-church Anglicanism. But my grandmother knew … Continue reading →

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A memorial of Father Richard Rowe

Posted on 11/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

I received news yesterday of the death of Father Richard Rowe. When he became Vicar of St Margaret’s, Leytonstone, in East London in 1979 he inherited me as the curate. I offered to move as soon as I was able … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – a new beginning or the end of an era?

Posted on 09/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

I read with interest of the publication of a revised edition of the English Hymnal towards the end of this year. I shall certainly add it to my collection (of English Hymnals) with the 1906 & 1933 editions, the New … Continue reading →

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The living and the dead

Posted on 08/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

“Now when the bells for Eucharist  / Sound in the Market Square, With sunshine struggling through the mist / And Sunday in the air. The veil between her and her dead / Dissolves and shows them clear. The Consecration / … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis and the Extraordinary Form

Posted on 02/08/2021 by Scott Anderson

Like many Catholics I was at first taken aback by the Pope’s recent Motu Proprio, Traditionis Custodes – On the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970. I had been aware of problems around the use of the … Continue reading →

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Renewing the Catholic Parish

Posted on 19/07/2021 by Scott Anderson

In 2009 a group of Anglo-Catholic clergy in the Diocese of London, encouraged by the then Bishop of Fulham, now Monsignor John Broadhurst, met to discuss a plan for parish renewal. I have kept the aide mémoire circulated after their … Continue reading →

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Where did it start to go wrong?

Posted on 19/07/2021 by Scott Anderson

In 1995 I was having dinner with a group of (Roman) Catholic clergy, including one who had been recently received from the Church of England. He was still pretty angry and predicting the imminent collapse of the C of E. … Continue reading →

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