The Cardinals have processed into the Sistine Chapel. It's fascinating to watch their body language - many of them are staring up at their surroundings, taking it all in. The sense of anticipation is enormous and suddenly they all seem very human. x #christian #catholic #papalelection #pope

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 14th Station: Pentecost. (Acts 2. 1-4) #christian #catholic #anglican Image: Cancer survivor Katherine Murrell cares for a patient as she trains for a role with the London Ambulance Service, April 2025.

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 13th Station: Mary and the Disciples Wait in Prayer. (Acts 1. 12-14) Image: George and Randa Sabat pray at home with their children during the Covid lockdown. Bethlehem, West Bank, 2020. #christian #catholic #anglican

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 12th Station: The Ascension of Jesus. (Acts 1. 6-11) Image: a child is rescued by army helicopter from severe flooding after Hurricane Harvey. Port Arthur, Texas, September 2017. #christian #anglican #catholic

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 11th Station: Jesus Commissions the Disciples on the Mountain. (Matthew 28. 16-20) Image: a woman holds lights as part of a “flash mob of illumination” during the Covid lockdown. Rome, 2020. #christian #catholic #anglican

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 10th Station: Jesus Forgives Peter. (John 21. 15-17) Image: Richard Moore sits with Charles Innes, the former British soldier who shot and blinded him as a boy. They have established a deep friendship. Derry, 2007.

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering fourteen #StationsofTheResurrection The Ninth Station: Jesus Appears by the Sea of Tiberias. (John 21.9-12) Image: a mother and her daughter enjoy a cup of tea prepared on a zero-emissions solar cooker. Chad, March 2012. #christian #anglican #catholic

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering fourteen #stationsoftheresurrection The 8th Station: Jesus Strengthens the Faith of Thomas. Image: Dr Ji Zhengyong, an amputee since the age of 14, attends to a patient. Jianxin, China, December 2015. #christian #anglican #catholic

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 7th Station: Jesus Commissions the Disciples. Image: Members of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission at their first hearing. East London, South Africa, April 1996. #christian #anglican #catholic

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #StationsofTheResurrection 6th Station: Jesus Appears to the Disciples in Jerusalem. Image: Former hostage Daniel Larribe greeted by his joyful family after being held by al-Qaida in Mali for 3 years. France, Oct 2013. #anglican #christian #catholic

Easter is a season of hope & I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection 5th Station: Jesus is Known in the Breaking of Bread. Image: 4-month-old Georgina Addison squeals with delight as her hearing aids are switched on & she hears her mother’s voice. UK, Dec 2019. #anglican #catholic #christian

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection The 4th Station: Jesus Appears On The Road To Emmaus. Image: nurse Yang Liu colours in a Peppa Pig drawing with a child infected with Covid-19. Wuhan Children’s Hospital, China, Feb 2020. #anglican #catholic #christian

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering 14 #stationsoftheresurrection The 3rd Station: Mary Magdalene Meets The Risen Jesus. Image: South Korean Lee Soon-kyu (85) is reunited with her North Korean husband Oh Se In (83) after 60 years, Oct 2015. #christian #catholic #anglican

Easter is a season of hope, and I’m offering fourteen #stationsoftheresurrection The Second Station: The Finding of the Empty Tomb. Image: women joyfully celebrate the liberation of the Syrian city of Manjib after two years of Daesh rule, August 2016. #christian #anglican #catholic

Easter is a season of hope, and we need hope more than ever. I’m offering fourteen #StationsofTheResurrection 1st Station: Jesus Is Raised From The Dead. Image: a baby girl who was rescued from under rubble 130 hours after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria on February 6th, 2023.

Sending solidarity to my many friends at Westminster Quaker Meeting. I was nurtured and supported by them in the early days of my faith and I owe them much gratitude. Why on Earth were they raided? Truly shocking. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...?

Happy International Women's Day! Here's the Mother of God practicing her right hook on the devil. Let's work for a world where all oppressive structures - political, cultural and religious - are challenged and transformed. Equal pay, equal employment opportunities. Solidarity! X #anglican #christian

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky. #ashwednesday #anglican

Greetings from deepest Northamptonshire! We have gathered for our Franciscan General Chapter at Highgate House, bits of which are Jacobean. It's all gone a bit Harry Potter.

Today the #Anglican Communion commemorates Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda and #martyr. An outspoken critic of the Idi Amin regime, he was arrested and murdered on February 16th 1977. The Archbishop's statue is one of the 20th Century Martyrs on the west front of Westminster Abbey.

A-roaming once again! A very brief trip to Alnmouth friary in Northumberland for the First Profession of dear Brother Simeon. Back again tomorrow. #franciscan #anglican

God bless you, Bishop Mariann Budde. x religionnews.com/2025/01/21/i...

On this day, 131 years ago, three men made religious vows at Pusey House in Oxford. Later that day they travelled to East London to serve the marginalised and poor. It was the beginning of a re-emergence of the #Franciscan tradition within Anglicanism. We continue their work to this day. #anglican

Tonight’s obsession: this 4th Century depiction of Christ the Good Shepherd, kept at the National Roman Museum in Italy. I can’t stop looking at it! Seventeen hundred years old. Adorable. #Christian #ChristianArt

It’s the feast of Christ's Baptism. Jesus asserts his humanity by insisting that John baptises him, whilst his divinity is confirmed by the Father through the Spirit. In a short passage of scripture we get all the Christological and Trinitarian testimony we need. youtu.be/d1wd2jWZkk8?...

Saint Stephen's Day. For all who have the courage to speak truth to power. This stunning contemporary portrayal of Stephen is by Peter Webb. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" - George Orwell. #christian #saint #catholic #anglican

Our Christmas crib attendees await the coming of the Christ child, including Skippy. He has hopped a long way for this moment. #Franciscan #London #friary #Christmas #Anglican

It's the feast of #Saint John of the Cross, 16th Century Spanish priest, #Carmelite friar and one of the 36 Doctors of the Church. His sketch of the crucifixion - portrayed from above - was the inspiration for Dali's extraordinary 1951 painting, which I’ve added here. #christian #catholic #anglican

Always a joy to be at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street - definitely one of London's finest churches. This evening I've attended the #Jesuit #Refugee Service #Advent carols. Hugely joyful to hear the JRS UK Music Group in full flow - we were all up on our feet and dancing!

Ka-pow! Sixteen centuries before the Thrilla in Manila we had the Melee in Nicaea. The chap throwing the punch is (believe it or not) Santa Claus - or to give him his proper name, Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra. It's his feast day today. #anglican #CofE www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Happy new year! It's the First Sunday of #Advent, the first day of the new liturgical year. I preached this morning on the theme of hope overcoming fear. Here's a link to the text: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... #CofE #CofEPeeps #Anglican

November 29th is the feast of All Franciscan Saints. For eight centuries men and women have lived out their vocation for Christ in the way of Saint Francis and Saint Clare. Would you like to meet some of them? Robert Ellsberg has written a fine introduction: www.franciscanmedia.org/st-anthony-m...

A lot can happen in one day! November 22nd 1963 saw the death of C.S. Lewis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the death of Aldous Huxley, and the U.K. release of “With The Beatles”.

It's the Feast of #Saint Cecilia, patron of musicians. She was a Roman noblewoman forced into marriage with a pagan named Valerian. At her wedding she is said to have “sung in her heart to the Lord”. She was either very good or very bad, as Valerian agreed to a chaste partnership and get baptised.

Today, we celebrate the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary. This feast celebrates the moment when Mary, as a child, was presented in the Temple by her parents. Her life, dedicated to God from the beginning, foreshadowed the role she would play in salvation history.

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Priscilla Lydia Sellon was a remarkable woman, an #Anglican pioneer of religious communities in the 19th Century. She founded schools & orphanages and led the Society of the Most Holy Trinity at Ascot Priory. Her nuns accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea. She died on this day in 1876. #CofE

It's the feast of #Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia. He was beheaded by the Danes on this day in 869. According to legend, his severed head continued to speak and was protected by a wolf. The cathedral in the lovely town that bears his name (Bury St Edmunds) is well worth a visit. #CofE

Today the Church of England commemorates Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. She was present at the synod in 664 when the Church was torn between Roman and Celtic observance. Disagreement at synod is not a new phenomenon! Sending prayers of appreciation for all women in Church leadership. #CofEPeeps #CofE

Today is the feast of the wonderful #Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Born a princess in 1207, she personally cared for the poor until her untimely death at the age of 24 in the year 1231. Her extraordinary Christian witness resonates to this day, and she is co-patron of the #Franciscan Third Order.

Most friaries are timetabled with the sound of bells, but here at Plaistow it's Bonnie the cat who taps at my window and wakes me up for Morning Prayer! #CofEPeeps #BonnieCat

It's Interfaith Week! So great to meet with people of other faiths and chat about the many things that unite us all. Here I am with other visitors and local #Newham councillors at the East London Buddhist Cultural Centre. They were such kind hosts to us! #CofE #CofEPeeps #InterfaithWeek

Hello the people! Another Bluesky newbie here. I'm a Franciscan friar based in Newham, East London. My ministry is focused on serving the local community, interfaith dialogue, food banks, social justice, and building new supportive links for LGBT+ people of faith.