Still waiting for people to take me up on my Celtic Reconciliation offer, in which we go into the North Sea for 2 weeks in ice cold water as penance for our sins.

2/2 St Gabriel at the Annunciation, a 15th Century wall painting at Little Melton, Norfolk.

The parable of Dives and Lazarus, today's gospel. In the background, Dives entertains his rich friends to a feast. In the foreground, Lazarus stands in the garb of a leper, bowl and clapper in hand, the dogs licking his sores. A Flemish roundel of c1530 now at Earsham, Norfolk.

the horse and its rider has he hurled into the sea

Abraham replied, “They have the notices in the bulletin; let them read them.” She said, “Nay, Father Abraham; but if one read out unto them the notices after church, they will pay attention.”

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Doing zoom seminary in my gold lamé cope and sick tunicle

‘Moorland’ - #RSThomas (Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan)

Hate it, but it’s Casaubon

Academics, what’s stopping you from doing footnotes like this???

18/9/25 - nocturn

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

from "Worship, Forming, and Deforming," Juan M.C. Oliver

Deacons by virtue of their order do not exercise

If American Christianity in any way resembled the historical mainstream of the Church both male and female celibacy would be so common you would sound like a lunatic if you tried to propose that Instagram tradwifery were somehow the apotheosis of Christian life

The marginalization of monasticism and virginity in Christianity in America has made it tremendously difficult to refute the idea that Christianity is about Marriage and The Family

The Magi Come To Toronto E.G.N. Lafleur @egnlafleur.bsky.social "Thy holy cities are a wilderness... " kithbooks.com/shop/p/themagicometotoronto

You know a nation’s gods by what they’ll sacrifice their children to.

Authors could do something so awesome if they wanted to.

Art: "Christ Breaks the Rifle," Otto Pankok #ottopankok #christbreakstherifle #sacredart

The first rule of the Secret Millennial Anglican Cabal is to not talk about the Secret Millennial Anglican Cabal.

Thank you!

Listening to John Henry Newman on audiobook and lifting weights - call that muscular christianity

Jesuit

every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.

Dear Gandma, I am having a nice time here. When we got into are rooms I shut the door and the handle fell of. The meals are nice and we get puwer orange jues. I have taken a picture of Winchester Chathedral. from Christopher

Also doing this is your dressing gown at 10pm is a real choice.

Have you seen his updated Wikipedia page?

Liturgy for a bishop closing down a choir concert. With thanks for the tip off to @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social whose joke has been shamelessly stolen. cyber-coenobites.blogspot.com/2025/07/litu...

...in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers-- all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:16-17

‘Pilgrimages’ - #RSThomas (Between Here and Now, Macmillan) #Pererindodau #Pilgrimages #YnysEnlli #BardseyIsland

"Perhaps most divisive of all was Francis’s own personality: authoritarian and anarchic, austere and ambiguous; the silence and the noise. He remained, always, La Gioconda: wearing a smile that seemed to—and perhaps did—reveal everything."

My first year undergrad English survey prof was an Auerbach scholar and he structured the course around Mimesis - I still think about him telling us that how you say/write/form *is* the content

“Sodomy should be illegal and is a perfectly respectable hobby for any eccentric gentleman” is one of those old timey bigotries that got replaced by their crasser modern counterparts.

Philadelphus ‘Belle Étoile’ (Mock Orange) III - a poem by Nicola Healey www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/nico...

‘At 31, [Kwek] has published four collections to much acclaim, and Commonwealth, published in May, marks his fifth. It is his finest yet.’ Zinc by Theophilus Kwek is The Telegraph’s Poetry pick of the week: m5.emails.telegraph.co.uk/nl/jsp/m.jsp

(homoousios)

Four years after the original tweet - Gladwyn has a poem. It seems very likely that the real Gladwyn was a casualty of the Western Front, as so many men of his social class were. He is buried at Poelcappelle in Flanders. mikrokosmosjournal.com/2025/06/for-...

if you’ve ever wondered why “escaping small scale subsistence farming” has been humanity’s primary group project for the majority of our known existence, it’s because small scale subsistence farming sucks real bad

Alden Nowlan was a Canadian poet. I'd not come across his work until last week when someone shared 'Weakness' with me. It's a startling poem, at once tender and brutal, visceral and yet moving. 1/3

"'It is hard to believe in the end of the world in Toronto,' writes E.G.N. Lafleur, who flays open the city with verse to expose the intricacies and inner chambers of its crenelated heart." - Adrian Dallas Frandle kithbooks.com/shop/p/themagicometotoronto

Happy pride and blessed Corpus Christi - I'm still v proud of this book - please read it

Mother Church,

abolish,

(which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh)

all other sins which I cannot now remember