Retirement is not about saving money or "quality of life." It's about learning your place in creation, discerning how you feed your relationships with others, and quietly/silently finding meaning in it all.

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@karanslade.bsky.social will make her first profession tonight (6pm Eastern) in the newly constituted Community of the Good Shepherd, the sister community to the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, and @l0anna.bsky.social will be admitted as a postulant. 🕯️ Join the stream: www.youtube.com/@TrinityPrin...

Just dug out 53 dandelions (mostly small). 😇

A wonderful, startling, intense sermon. @cebm.bsky.social So glad I can watch. And, yes, you're right about Bonnie.

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You're right! For some reason I can't explain, I know St Peter won't call my name. 🎵

Dear Rogation Days, Thank you for reminding us to pray for our crops and our work. ❤️🕯

Planning to make sweet hummus for breakfasts next week. Chocolate or cinnamon. I've made many hummuses, but I need this, just once.

Almighty God, Lord of heaven and earth: We humbly pray that thy gracious providence may give and preserve to our use the harvests of the land and of the seas, and may prosper all who labor to gather them, that we, who constantly receive good things from thy hand, may always give thee thanks… Amen.⚓️

IMO, playoffs are over-doing it. In the Premiere League, it's down to the number of points (3/match) won over a season. No playoff agony.

A mothers day sonnet from Seamus Heaney. This is as sentimental as Heaney ever gets.

This is my mothers day gift. Thank you, Iceland.

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Jesus on the narrow gate and the wide gate in Evening Prayer tonight. 🕯🙏 Matthew 7

Get your kicks On route 66 🎵

Reading Donne's Elegies. Yikes!

Look at the size of this book! 936 pages of small print. 200 more pages of notes. From the library. About Paul, so right up my alley. 🤣🕯🤔

Looking for a little sermon prep help from my TEC folks: can anybody please send me a pic of the Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2022 essay for Julian of Norwich? It has a translations of the "all shall be well" passage that I particularly liked but can't remember exactly and I don't have it at home. TIA! ⚓

Happy Feast of Julian of Norwich, one of my favourite mystics and theologians; a 14th century anchoress, the first known woman to publish a book in the English language. Going against the dominant focus on human sinfulness and God’s just wrath, Julian emphasized God’s loving compassion /1

Today is a good day to thank Black people for not making this country feel the full might and weight of its own sins and make this sinful wasteland a rustled configuration of ashes and smoke. They’ve put us through hell and we insist on resisting directly and peacefully. God bless us

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In his sermon last Sunday, @scottagunn.bsky.social said the average Episcopalian invites someone to church once every 40 years. I've done it twice. So 😇 Kidding. Not enough. I'm a disgrace. 🕯

🕯️ Triune God, Father and Mother to us all, who showed your servant Julian revelations of your nurturing and sustaining love: Move our hearts, like hers, to seek you above all things, for in giving us yourself you give us all. Amen. www.satucket.com/lectionary/J...

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I was such a fool to think that racism had been defeated!

Happy Feast of Julian of Norwich. Icon written by a late fellow Julian Oblate and dear friend, Lu Bro.

This is interesting, but as of right now, about 33% of episcopal churches, per those who have responded, practice *active* CWOB (that is to say, they actively publish that everyone regardless of baptismal status is welcome)

In tonight's Matthew 6, Jesus wasn't talking about impoverished people who might starve or thirst to death, or might freeze for lack of clothing. He was talking about you and me and how our energy is spent on material acquisition. 🕯

“Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; * do not be jealous of those who do wrong. For they shall soon wither like the grass, * and like the green grass fade away.” Evening has a word for us. 📕

“I do not know how to come closer to God except by standing where a world is ending for one man. It is still dark, and for an hour I have listened to the breathing of the woman I love beyond my ability to love.” – Christian Wiman, “One Time,” in “Every Riven Thing”

Election Day for Brits. If I pray for them, maybe they'll pray for us when midterms come in November. 🙏🙏

Digging deeply into the Rule of St Beneduct has greatly helped me in all my relationships. 🕯

At last watched @scottagunn.bsky.social 's magnificent preaching from last Sunnday at St Mark's cathedral. Also saw @adalehunt.bsky.social read the gospel. 🕯

Had a long lunch with a dear friend and we didn't talk about politics even once.

OK Connections, I give up.

Short🧵 Very apt.

Anybody else struck by the way the Leviticus and the Thessalonians readings this morning echo eachother? 🕯

Simple question for parents with multiple kids: how do your kids treat each other, and what are the age differentials?

one of my favorites from Linda Gregg, a poem that takes on richer layers of meaning with each passing year...

Just now found this!!!

I'm halfway through my last head of garlic. Two more days until grocery shopping. Living on the edge.

Are there any books by non-cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs writers that talk about the role of a pastor through the lens of spiritual parenthood? I’d expect there to be at least a few RC/TEC resources out there, but the only books I can find are evangelical or neo-Reformed ⚓️

Since placing a hold on Theo of Golden (friend recc) I have moved up 200 places. I'm now 194th in line.

27. Twenty-seven people have now visited St Paul's explicitly because of our online presence. Some have come once, some have come occasionally, some have traveled for hours to check us out. Two have become members. Like, share, subscribe, and engage with your favorite Episcopal content creators.

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This morning's Leviticus 16 will tell you everything you need to know about the Day of Atonement. 🕯

OK. Thanks. I've seen enough Met Gala pics.

My sentiments exactly.