One of the incredible things about Minnesota is people on the ground are still showing up every week! There is a real sense that the work is changing, but not stopping. It would be very, very helpful if people outside of Minnesota shared that spirit with us.

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry. Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

A perfect little tragedy in six minutes and I think I might have fallen in love with the smoking one

Yin yoga updates: thought about the preface for Lent 1 inc. chant pointing while I lay on the floor (because you bid your faithful people to cleanse their hearts...).

Seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion

‘And behold, on the day after Ash Wednesday the King did send officers to take his brother in charge, and upon Holy Island a wondrous prodigy, a rock with the teeth of a man, etc.’

I often quote this one

One of the priests who went into the Beoadview facility, Fr. Paul Keller (speaking here), said he felt "a society with dirty hands actually asking for the forgiveness of those who are being detained, as opposed to encouraging them to repent of their sins."

"Today many of you live in fear of being marked and tracked, careful about names, identities, and lists. But today, you step forward freely to receive this mark, the sign of the cross." - Cupich

“This too is a day for those who are made to feel like dust, dust that can be swept away or treated as if they do not belong. It is a day for those who work with the dust of the earth in construction, in cleaning, in harvesting the crops of the fields, all to support their families.” - Cupich

@ordinandssay.bsky.social lent fasting edition: "If you eat peanut butter instead of thinking about Christ..."

Benedict XVI to Pope Francis: “your goodness is the place where I dwell: where I feel protected” 🥹❤️ I watch this at least once a month. I commend it to you. youtu.be/J2jvdCk7e7I?...

Happy February, doss-month, month of dossing

the flesh lusteth always

always correspond to the astronomical equinox

went to yin yoga and just thought about Karl Rahner for an hour

open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle... thinking about salmon swimming over the bodies of their dead, what makes a good death, and Paul as a repentant ICE agent

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go and open your grief to a discreet and understanding priest

The people trying to immanentize the eschaton and the people preaching God‘s holy judgment have like switched sides from 20 years ago, wild times in the ekklesia.

James Ryan Morris

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

If you see an abduction keep your wits about you and focus on: -recording it -getting a name The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds). Next time I’ll do better

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And the thing is ... if you are a Christian, you should already know this in your bones. And you should also know that on the other side lies resurrection. That is literally the gospel. But half the Christians in the US are unapologetic white nationalists, and most of the rest have been hearing

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Regard not our sins, but the faith of your Church, and give to us the peace and unity of that heavenly city,

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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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