When I’m feeling down, I’ll pour myself a glass of wine and watch the first 20 minutes of episode 10 of season 6 of Game of Thrones ⛪️ 🔥 🍷

I’m working on my resumé, but I’m not sure how to frame it for my dream job of “Younger son of a Marquess.”

Who knows not Love, let him assay, And taste that juice, which on the crosse a pike Did set again abroach; then let him say If ever he did taste the like. Love in that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as bloud; but I, as wine ⚓️

I do not need to see anything more about the USA men’s hockey team unless and until they go full Heated Rivalry.

If I were Emperor of the Gays, I would outlaw Grindr and all its offspring and force men to actually meet somewhere in person to find someone to hook up with.

“What am I doing wrong?” I ask into the void. Allegedly 318 people are following me but I get <5 engagement on any given skeet - often only 1 or 0.

J. Edgar Hoover is looking up from hell and wondering why no one told him that his job perks included partying with hockey players in a locker room.

Ferdinand Habsburg is also doing the Hallow app that Marky Mark is promoting, but I downloaded it and I can’t find him. I sort of imagined it was like Catholic Grindr or something.

I just realized that half my trip to Paris was spent visiting graves, so that’s my “memento mori” for Ash Wednesday.

I see nothing in BCP1979 that makes Lenten discipline mandatory. The Calendar on p17 is descriptive, not prescriptive (these days “are observed,” not “must be”). On p265 we’re “invited” to a Holy Lent, not commanded. Lent isn’t a Baptismal vow. It seems Lent is optional, at least for laity⚓️

I refuse to body-shame this day by calling it “fat.” To me, it’s just “Tuesday.”

Does anyone else just really hate Lent? I have never found any spiritual value in it and I’ve been trying off and on for over 40 years. Lent drives me away from God and fills me with bitterness and resentment. ⚓️

Today I was blessed to say Evening Prayer in the presence of what 16 centuries of pious imagination have believed is the Crown of Thorns ⚓️

Our most gracious Sovereign Lord has acknowledged our Christmas greeting #GSTK

It’s absurd that the Starmer government may fall over Mandelson. If you had to appoint an ambassador to the Court of Mar-a-Lago, an Epstein associate might arguably be an asset.

I have not seen the Maria von Trapp or Dowager Countess memes this year. Time marches on and old forms pass away to make way for new ideas in the dialectical unfolding of the World-Spirit. #Superbowl #hegelposting

It’s probably because I’m suffering from extreme Epstein fatigue, but I wish The Left™️©️ would stop trying to do its own QAnon. I’m seeing an inverse retread of the gloriously unhinged fantasies that the MAGA cult perfected - and it’s derivative and lame and frankly embarrassing.

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I have had to correct six (6) persons today with misinformed opinions about the Royal Martyr. May God have mercy on their souls. ⚓️

Children who were conceived when A Dance With Dragons was published will be starting high school this fall

They called us “gifted” like we were X-Men but my fucking mutant power was anxiety

One advantage of monarchy is that when a king decides to threaten war because he didn’t get a shiny medal, there is no one to blame but the accidents of genetics and history. In a democracy, you have to face the horrifying fact that millions of your fellow citizens knowingly voted for this.

Today I learned that the Romanian national anthem begins “Awake, Romanians, from your sleep of death” 🧛‍♂️

When I read the Left Behind novels, I thought Nicolae Carpathia was a dumb and unbelievable antichrist. But then Donald Trump became President. ⚓️

Left Behind is hot steaming garbage, but in the first book the Antichrist shoots two guys in the middle of a press conference. Then he tells everyone that one of victims shot himself and the bullet struck the other guy - and they believe it completely. That’s just a bit too close to reality. ⚓️

I have been incorporating more Signs of the Cross into my personal practice, in the Office and the Mass when the Orthodox do it - and I love it. It feels good to ground myself in my body and to sanctify my body by connecting heaven and earth with my actions and intentions ⚓️

This is professional golfer Scottie Sheffler. In 2024, he got into an altercation in which he refused a lawful order to stop his car. He actually hit the police officer with his car and dragged him along the road. Notably, Sheffler is as of this morning still alive.

They say that Samantha in SATC isn’t really a female character but a gay man written as a woman - and that shown in Ep 4.1 where she tries to pick up a Franciscan friar at the Church of the Transfiguration. Heterosexuality in that context is not necessarily impossible; just very unlikely.

Wishing a very “thorough” Laudmas to all queer High Church liturgy nerds and/or tortoise enthusiasts! ⚓️

On this Laudmas Eve, I am reminded that some things are best enjoyed when pushed up against the wall and railed. I mean altars, of course. What did you think I was talking about? ⚓️

Maybe I’ve been watching too many videos of Russian and Ukrainian men doing Epiphany ice plunges, but I don’t think we Western Catholics do the Sign of the Cross enough. ⚓️

Happy New Year to the first Mayor I have actually voted FOR

Now we watch as the flamboyant gay Jew makes the uptight gay WASP more and more uncomfortable until the ball drops.

I think my most controversial church option is that the biretta is an absurd affectation copied from Roman Catholicism that has no place in Anglican worship - and Blessed Percy agreed with me. ⚓️

I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord ⚓️

A Christmas message rooted in Christian faith hits differently from an anointed Sovereign than one from a mendacious elected official. With the King’s speech, it is now officially Christmas!

Today we sang “Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending” which is in my top three of favorite hymns of all time. The other two are “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!” (Hyfrydol) and “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” (Austria - ONLY Austria). ⚓️

The Wonder Woman socks made their appearance for Gaudete Sunday ⚓️

A toast to Marshal Ney, the Bravest of the Brave. At Waterloo, he shouted “Come see how a Marshal of France faces death!” Today in 1815 he faced death without a blindfold and gave the order to his firing squad himself. Memory eternal.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

St Ambrose, whose feast falls on this date, refused to let the Emperor Theodosius I enter the Cathedral in Milan because he had blood on his hands for the illegal order to murder civilians in Thessalonica. ⚓️

QTP with a GIF of a powerful woman

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-Chicken Tenders) is the ideal gay politician for people who think Secretary Pete Buttigieg is not vanilla enough - but he’s cute and I love him and I wish him well.

I feel like we’re living in a real-life production of Chicago

C. S. Lewis died the very same day that President Kennedy was assassinated. WHAT DID HE KNOW?!?!?

If someone wrote a script about a snowboarder who become a cocaine trafficker, it would be laughed off as too up the nose - I mean, *on the nose.

It makes me happy that The Hymnal 1982 has both the Kaiserhymne and God Preserve the Tsar. It has God Save the King, too, but the lyrics are problematic 😝 ⚓️

“Christ is King” is not the same as “Jesus is Lord.” 1 Cor 12:3 tells us that no one can say the latter except by the Holy Spirit, but lots of people are anointed and there are lots of kings. I don’t think it’s the Holy Spirit that makes fascists and racists weaponize “Christ is King.” Anchor ⚓️

For Remembrance Sunday, the choir at St John’s in the Village performed Mozart’s Requiem and it was glorious: there was no mediocrity to absolve! ⚓️