A loss for us all.
In my opinion, his wonderful blog should be left intact. Also, if there are such capabilities through Blogger, it should be downloaded and preserved.
In your charity, please pray for his soul and for his family members and friends.
Requiescat.
He will not be forgotten. Requiem aeternam dona eum, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eum.Very sad news: Fr John Hunwicke of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, died on Tuesday. A man of wit and scholarship, 'fortes in fide', and a great support to the work of@latinmassuk… pic.twitter.com/prodBm3L6c
— Joseph Shaw (@LMSChairman) May 2, 2024
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Requiescat in pace.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him. I note that there are a couple of posts at Father’s site dated yesterday and today, no doubt scheduled to post automatically. I hope we will still benefit from Father’s wit and wisdom in the days to come!
I shall add him to my list of priests who have passed to pray for each day. Mercifully, while that list continues to grow, my list of priests still ministering here on Earth is also growing!
In the link below, Fr. Hunwicke reprinted his classic post upon reading Archbishop Lefebvre’s They Have Uncrowned Him.
https://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2017/11/they-have-uncrowned-him-1-archbishop.html
I may be able to find the other classic post in which he muses about his 1962 calendar containing so many Counter Reformation saints versus his Ukrainian Catholic calendar containing so many early Church martyrs and ascetics.
Blessed repose and eternal memory. Christ is risen!
Perhaps this is the link on calendars that I was thinking of, although it is not so concerned with the contrasts as I wrongly stated earlier. Anyway, interesting, as he always was.
https://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2019/08/calendars.html
May he rest in peace.
The Internet Archive has indexed his site, so the content is preserved if Blogger ever goes out of business or removes the inactive site, but it looks like the navigation is broken in the Archive version, so it will be difficult to find posts that are not on the main page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240411142958/http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/
My heart hurts for all of us who read his blog, but I cannot help but be happy for his life forever in Jesus Christ. I will pray for his soul, and I hope he is praying for mine.
May God wipe all the tears from the eyes of his family.
He left a backlog of posts, which is a bit eerie but also a testimony to his industry, in his last days.
God grant him rest.
I shall miss his erudite and witty posts.
May the Lord grant his family comfort and that peace which the world cannot give.
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He will be greatly missed. Reading his blog has always been one of the high points of my day. Requiescat in pace.
Eternal rest.
Requiem aeternam dona eum -> Requiem aeternam dona **ei**
May he rest in peace. My routine when at home is to read this blog at breakfast then Fr. Hunwicke’s at lunchtime. His wit and insight will be sorely missed.
I am ‘extra X (quondam Twitter)’, but see that Dr. Shaw’s LMS Chairman blog has a post “Fr John Hunwicke: a brief appreciation” which includes “As is our usual practice, the Latin Mass Society will organise a ‘month’s mind’ Requiem for him, as someone who has made an important contribution to our work. Details will be published when confirmed.” I have not yet found any ‘Exsequiarum Ordo’ information.
Fr. John’s post on the Feast of St. George included “The Pancreatic nastiness stops me from getting out to Libraries and Archives”, and that of 29 April included “on May 3, si vivimus, we shall break off, for a moment, from celebrating Mary’s Month of May, so as to enjoy the exquisite festival of the Inventio of the Holy Cross” – which has been fulfilled by today’s posthumous post, the third such example of his lively posts industriously prepared in advance, amidst his sufferings.
As we prepare in schola for other exequies it is good to think of Fr. John gathered in, in keeping with the rubric “At the end of each psalm the Verse ‘Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis’ is always said, even if the Office be for one person only.”
Sorry to have my fears confirmed… he had always been so regular in his postings but over the last two weeks they had become sporadic… and then one of his very infrequent references to his “pancreatic nastiness”… one couldn’t help but worry…
His priesthood, and his conversion, were gifts to the Church; and of course this blog was a wonderful gift to all of us who happily tolerated his waspishness and idiosyncrasies (e.g. no links!) in exchange for his erudition and the breadth of his knowledge.
A great loss, at a time when his insights and voice were vitally needed. Memory eternal!
Amen and yes, please Lord, to all the prayers for his soul and for his family and friends. I am sad to lose him, and I do wonder if our global IQ has suffered now that he is not with us. Reading his blog was certainly a stretch for mediocre heads like mine, the man forgot more than I’ll ever know. But it was his zeal for the faith, his wit, his warmth, that I will remember. If there is a reason to be glad it’s, he now knows Who it was all for, we pray, face to face. Thank you God, for him.
I now see that a Lifesite post from three hours before my previous comment directs our attention to an Oxford Oratory post of 2 May which includes “His funeral will will take place in our church. Full details will follow once they have been confirmed.”
Prayers for his soul, and tears for the loss of such a priest..
He was a bright light.
Building on what @iamlucky13 mentioned, it looks like Archive.org does have most of the site indexed – over 10k urls archived, see the list here:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/*
If you’d like to make a personal archive of the site, on any linux/unix computer run this command:
wget –recursive –no-clobber –page-requisites –convert-links –domains liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com –no-parent https://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/
I’ve been away and only catching up now, and I had no idea he had died, although as a very regular dipper-into his wonderful blog for years I knew of his serious illness. Thank you, Father, for posting this. May God grant his noble soul speedy admittance to the Blessed Light, and comfort his family.
As Kathleen10 says: “Reading his blog was certainly a stretch for mediocre heads like mine, the man forgot more than I’ll ever know”.
Lux perpetua luceat ei.
I’ve been surprised at just how hard I’ve taken the news of his death. We only met once, and that fairly briefly, at S. Agatha’s in Portsmouth. But, while he was vastly more erudite than I shall ever be, we had enough in common (Anglican background, Oxford, Classics) for me to feel that his blog in many ways encapsulated an approach to the faith which helped to make sense of my own. We are definitely the poorer for his passing. May God reward the soul of his faithful servant John Hunwicke.
I see belatedly that Father John’s funeral is announced as at the Oxford Oratory at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 4 June.
With the (re-)post of 9 May, the work he had prepared in advance for his blog seems to have reached its conclusion.