On Adoration and Memory

A privilege and a pleasure to preach for Candlemas in Cardiff at @stgermancardiff.bsky.social, at the invitation of @scholarpriest.bsky.social. You can watch the sermon here: youtu.be/Hg54NjZ0k-Q?...

📸 Lucian Koncz

‘Look, Father, look on his anointed face, and only look on us as found in him…’

~ attend to your interior life ~

~ in te confido Iesu ~

‘I pray because God, the Shekhinah, is an outcast. I pray because God is in exile, because we all conspire to blur all signs of His presence in the present or in the past… I pray because I refuse to despair... …I pray because I am unable to pray.’ - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ❤️

"Mom, look at this new friend I found! Can he stay for dinner?" Ethiopia, 18th c. #StMary #VirginMary #BabyJesus #angel #africanart

Have returned to candle-making in an effort to resist despair… sales start in Lent #LumenChristi

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The Reverend Canon Roy D. Doxsey 1941 - 2025 Vicar of St German’s 1996 - 2011 ~ Jesu mercy, Mary pray ~

The Funeral Rites of our Beloved, Canon Roy D. Doxsey begin today. Rite of Reception and Vigil, 4.30PM Today, 5th Jan: shorturl.at/4qkpv Solemn Requiem Mass, 12PM Tomorrow, 6th Jan: shorturl.at/KIJGJ Links to liturgy in the Youtube description box for box services.

A line that gently disrupts…
 nomadpodcast.co.uk for the full devotional with Jarel Robinson-Brown. @scholarpriest.bsky.social

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‘Totus tuus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia.’

A reminder that cuts right to the heart of Jarel’s message…
nomadpodcast.co.uk for the full devotional with Jarel Robinson-Brown @scholarpriest.bsky.social

Hope doesn’t have to look grand to be real…
nomadpodcast.co.uk for the full devotional with Jarel Robinson-Brown @scholarpriest.bsky.social

#HomilyInBrief #Christmas

www.youtube.com/live/Enpbgie... #ChristmasEve #VigilMass #Nativity

If you’re looking for something steadying today: Our new Nomad episode with Jarel Robinson-Brown is out now. @scholarpriest.bsky.social A powerful reflection on embodied love, divine kindness, and choosing hope even when the world feels fractured.

247 years before Christmas, my true love gave to me… '60 walnuts 5 baskets of figs 20 pomegranates and a partridge' [a pear tree] An almost festive letter sent in 247 BC! Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Gr. class. c. 97 (P)

Out now on Nomad:
Jarel Robinson-Brown – Love in a World on Fire A moving reflection on vulnerable love, divine kindness, and the courage to hope when everything feels like it’s burning.
 With a contemplative space guided by Anna Robinson, and music woven by Wilderthorn.

If a Crucified God. And a Wounded Saviour. And a foot washing Lord. And a Rebel Rabbi. Are not ‘God’ enough for you – then, well….other religions exist! Father Jarel Robinson-Brown

‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’ - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 📸 Frances Marshall

IN MEMORIAM ~The Reverend Canon Roy D. Doxsey~ 31st March 1941 - 20th November 2025 A little tribute to our beloved Father Roy, who went to his eternal rest a month ago today! Faithful Vicar of St German's, Roath 1996 - 2011 ❤️ Funeral Mass, St German’s, 6th Jan, 12 NOON.

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Many of our regular weekday masses will be at different times over the coming weeks, please see a full mass schedule here:

Our Bishop’s Christmas Message can be read in full, and listened to here: shorturl.at/iQL5H

TODAY!!

Congratulations to those involved in Winter Night Shelter for our neighbours living on the streets Big shout out for @stgermancardiff.bsky.social St Peter’s Roath, St Michaels Cathays, Grangetown Baptist, St Mary’s Canton, 7th Day Adventist Rawden Place and all volunteers providing hot meal & bed 👏🏼

Queer Carols, London - next week!

On behalf of God, I urge you - do not forget this man, nor those who set at nought and killed him. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u... #JusticeForFrAlanGriffin

I think the biggest proof point for the Pope's ongoing leadership of the whole global church is how widespread Christ the King Sunday is now observed. All sorts of Christians, even ones with explicitly different calendars or none now make reference to it in some way. Really remarkable.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.