The new non-blogging priestly guest of English Catholic blogs is Fr Charles Briggs, pictured above at one of our regular Sunday lunch meetings at the Chislehurst Golf Club of which he is an honorary member. He is given this honour on account of the Club House being the former home of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie, and his being the parish priest of St Mary's, Chislehurst. In the background, you can see a painting of the Empress and the young Prince Imperial.Below, he is pictured outside his not unpleasant Chislehurst presbytery.
Fr Briggs regularly writes for Living Liturgy in the Modern World magazine, expounding the thesis "Latin is a Barrier to Participation." He has a fine collection of hand-thrown pottery chalices, and Javan batik stoles in primary colours. He is a 9 on the enneagram.Oh all right, then - Fr Briggs is a Church Historian, expert on Mgr Talbot, Jansenism, and Blessed Pius IX, and regularly celebrates the Classical Roman Rite. His living room features in pride of place a picture of Mere Angélique Arnauld, the Abbess of Port Royal:
4 comments:
He doesn't look too happy at being captured for posterity...
...perhaps whipping out the camera over lunch is against the golf club rules...!
;-)
well its good to see that I am not the only historian around!
regards
paul harrison
"He is a 9 on the enneagram"
What the hell?
It is a joke, Thomas. He doesn't have pottery chalices or batik stoles and would shun the enneagram as he would a rabid dog. The next paragraph says what he is really like.
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