as a seminary professor I can confirm that "being a seminarian" is indeed a unique state of sinfulness

a body of liturgical poetry

I’d engage this post but today I’m too busy re-consecrating the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

sleeping with a piece of wedding cake under my pillow and receiving harrowing dream-visions of the Passion

On further reflection, there's something very Eve Sedgwick here about some bi women looking at men the way gay men look at men

Y'all mind if I trample out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?

I'm all libbed out until someone makes me do stereotypical lib things at Mass and then atavistic impulses consume me

So, for curious and carnal persons,

Just finished my second lecture for this! Featuring queer natural law, but also Vatican II and what it means to do trans theology in the long shadow of Catholic antiliberalism. There's still time to sign up below! Starts 8th June, online. londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/4kgas...

preaching Stephen on Sunday - here he is by Carlo Crivelli, looking very coy

I don't think I've ever been prouder and more excited to see a book on pre-order

Really looking forward to this

"When I was young, the pope always seemed to be dying... I came to understand something of that emblematic force as I watched the ailing Francis insist on visiting prisoners, gasping out greetings, being present for his Easter message" @piercepenniless.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

the flesh lusteth always

what if I just fully pivot and start posting only history shit. I’m gonna go full conspiracist about Perkin Warbeck specifically.

also the tragically hip's wheat kings

Today somebody from our church got stuck up a tree.

let us kneel in silence,

I'm writing about trans people's poetry in Ireland. If you are trans, Irish/resident on the island of Ireland and have some publicly available poetry, send me a link. Please repost widely.

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here's why I hate Jesus and the Pope.

let the bones that you have broken rejoice

I know it's easter now, but I wanted to offer my maundy thursday sermom for anyone who has encountered death open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...

I am poured out like water

not that I'm complaining, but this cafe pretty much only ever plays the fleet foxes self titled

Good news lads, incredibly normal about the Tantum Ergo again

April is in my mistress' face, so jot that down

Fascinating by @piercepenniless.bsky.social & refreshing that it doesn't shy away from discussing the exploitative aspect of pederastic homosexual desire. Also, I as ever find myself asking how we historically locate & describe those who loved & lusted for men & women www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

tuesday in holy week: you would have to put off Sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. (T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding)

Holy Week and Trans Visibility - in which I reflect on Jesus' body, Trans Day of Visibility, and how our bodies come to have meaning 🕯️

if anything the problem I've had writing lately is that I can't imagine anything I might want to say that the psalmist didn't already say the best anybody's ever going to say it

transgender day of hide me under the shadow of thy wings, from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies who compass me about

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON #TransRightsReadathon read trans with free eBooks until March 31st kithbooks.com

Today is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week. Christ's enters Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey, a 14th Century wallpainting at North Cove, Suffolk. People cheer from above the gate, and a cloak is laid in his path. More: suffolkchurches.co.uk/northcove.htm #PalmSunday #HolyWeek

Do get involved in this - super exciting to be helping organise, and looking forward to seeing what people come up with!🕯️

Good clean fun except for the bit about god being chiefly known unto me by his rod

love 2 spake unto the fish

And a very happy Gondorian New Year to all who celebrate!

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON: DAY 6 @egnlafleur.bsky.social @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Leo Rose Rodriguez CJ Selwyn kithbooks.com

all kith ebooks are free this week so if you've been curious about my poetry now is the time! www.kithbooks.com/digital/p/th...

a body of liturgical poetry

Something terrible's happened.

saw a recent claim that eggs and bunnies were 'culturally appropriated' from pagan Eostre worship and felt my eye begin to twitch

'but what do eggs and rabbits have to do with Jesus' is as historically oblivious a comment as 'what does a bloke riding around on a herring have to do with Jesus' They both have to do with Lent and the observation of Lent

the best of wives is fresh air (happy spring)

this one goes out to the repeat offenders! #TransRightsReadthon starts tomorrow! pick up these, and all our other eBooks, for FREE for the duration thank an author, support a trans press, be a steward of the future of lit t4t kithbooks.com

Sex, death and whaling (which is sex and death)

although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth

And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea... for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

I joke you not, I read a section of the sermon at my unitarian grandfather's funeral