Perhaps, like me, you are a seasonal music listener. Since Sister Winter has graciously arrived early I figured I'd share some of the ambient I adore & that I associate with winter /

Another R.S. Thomas poem for the 1st Week of Advent.

‘In a Country Church’ - #RSThomas (Song at the Year's Turning, Rupert Hart-Davis)

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we've added both a gift option and priority shipping to the shop going forward. if you're a procrastinator or have loved ones you won't be seeing, we'll tuck in a card and send books their way kithbooks.com for all your 'why are all the cool people so far away??' needs

Stanley Moss

My chapbook turned one in November! in many ways it's a window back to the more publicly vulnerable version of myself who wrote some of the intimate poems six years ago. seminary & social work have made me more private & cautious & I don't read those poems aloud now but you are very welcome to them.

Go ye out to meet him and say TELL US #advent #IYKYK ⚓️✝️

To nations, there is no hereafter; for nations, there is no world to come - Henry W. Herbert, The Silent Rifleman (chapter 16)

Creator of the stars of night, Thy people’s everlasting light, O Jesu, Saviour of us all, Regard thy servants when they call. Thou, grieving at the bitter cry Of all creation doomed to die, Didst come to save a ruined race With healing gifts of heavenly grace.

Going to try to start a rumour that the original themes of the Advent candles were Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell.

General Post Office poster, 1960

a date which is fixed in accordance with an ancient ecclesiastical computation

Anglicanism version: - systematic theologians - the Society of King Charles the Martyr - vergers - organists who are straight (you know it’s true) - people who enjoy parsing rubrics

@adalehunt.bsky.social outfit report

The Pelican in her Piety, plucking her breast to feed her chicks on her own blood, in the east window at Debden, Essex, by Gibbs & Howard, 1882. This metaphoric symbol for eucharistic sacrifice was popular in the late medieval period, and it was popular in the 19th Century too.

The one thing about liturgical churches is that you are borne along on a glorious tide of eschatology all through November BUT they do insist on running the Christmas craft fairs this week anyway

Inspired by @massimofaggioli.bsky.social's article about tradcaths in Commonweal, I took my lapsed catholic self on a field trip open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...

On today's edition of the substack which is rapidly becoming a sermon blog... open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...

Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026

Robertson Davies klaxon

Engaging in Luddite behaviour daily for my mental health

ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you

is 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner an orthodox dyophysite shower product with two and inseparable natures (shampoo and conditioner), a heretical monophysite unguent possessing only one nature, or is it a miaphysite union of two natures into a single composite

🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶

Seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion

I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.

It is Quite A Thing to be preparing for the feast of Christ the King next Sunday, specifically introduced in 1925 to remind Christians that we live under the rule of Christ, not the nations that humans have created, and see... this.

Today is also the feast of St Hugh of Lincoln, 12th Century bishop, transferred from yesterday because it was Sunday. He appears with the wild swan which was his friend and protector on Ninian Comper's 1912 reredos at Great Ryburgh, Norfolk. On the left, St George is less friendly to a dragon.

I spent the evening reading "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight" & enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Today's the last Sunday in Ordinary Time of this liturgical year, so the Mass readings are all about Last Things. The 14C parishioners of North Cove, Suffolk, were left in no doubt about what the Final Day would look like, thanks to the spectacular Doom painting on the south wall of the chancel.

reasonable, religious, and holy

The fan vaulting in the retrochoir at Peterborough Cathedral creates an impression reminiscent of a bower of trees as you walk beneath it.

Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

I would add that the sacramental life feeds and strengthens us for this work. The eucharist assures us of the real presence of Christ among us, our neighbors, our church, and the stranger, and reminds us that we are the body of Christ in which no one will be left behind.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.

It's not just about theology, writes @massimofaggioli.bsky.social. Catholic traditionalism today is about a Christianist agenda driving American politics. www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-tra...

COMING VERY SOON FROM PAST-ITCH PUBLISHING… Coal of Fire - Translations of the Hebrew Bible and other writings by @maddavenport.bsky.social Stay tuned for details!!

I have been waiting for this. I think a lot of y’all will enjoy it!

whereof every one was called a nocturn

Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

Just got an ad for Black Friday. Lol, pass. I don't think we celebrate that during de-growth.

what is going on with using a zany sans serif font to indicate proximity to the early church/vatican ii/the liturgical movement?

Me @ the 39 articles

💬 The City of London consultation on the ponds is open until 25 November. It’s important that women who support inclusion take part. Read our new piece to learn more and find out how you can have your say: 🔗 notinourname.org.uk/nion-women-rejects-anti-trans-narrative-at-kenwood-ladies-pond/ 4/5

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.