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Ben Richards

@BenRConductor

Singer and Conductor. Music Administrator @StDavidsCath. Former student @RoyalHolloway, choral scholar @RoyalHollChoir, @StBartholomews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈

Haverfordwest, Wales Katılım Nisan 2015
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St Davids Cathedral
St Davids Cathedral@StDavidsCath·
Today we mark the centenary of the birth of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty is remembered fondly by the people of St Davids, for her four visits to the city, including the distribution of Maundy money in 1982 and the granting of city status in 1995.
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BijanOmrani
BijanOmrani@BijanOmrani·
It's time to volunteer in your local church, if you want to save it. New article @thecriticmag (free access in next post)
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
Wonderful to be in St Ismael’s Uzmaston and St David’s Prendergast this morning on placement ahead of stage 2 discernment meetings later in the year. A joy to be worshipping in this beautiful corner of the world. He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
The full breadth of Anglican worship at @StDavidsCath for Good Friday. 8am Prayerbook Mattins & Litany, Liturgy of Good Friday with Cross Veneration at 1.30pm, then pared-back Evensong with Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah 1. A prayerful day well spent.
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
Who shall fathom that descending, From the rainbow-circled throne, Down to earth's most base profaning, Dying desolate alone.
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St Davids Cathedral@StDavidsCath·
The Watch has begun
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@2D0XPS Yes I just thought the same, Madam Dean does make sense. Still, I appreciate that things are kept somewhat formal here (a consequence of being a quarter of a century behind the rest of the country in many respects)
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Daniel Heaton
Daniel Heaton@2D0XPS·
@BenRConductor A female speaker is Madam Speaker, and that's what I've been assuming for female Deans and Archdeacons.
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Daniel Heaton
Daniel Heaton@2D0XPS·
I'm not advocating for everyone to start calling me Fr Heaton, but I do think it's interesting that culturally if you go to hospital the doctors/surgeons are Dr/Mr Surname, but not in the ‘hospital for sinners’. What does it say about the administration of the ‘cure of souls’?
Daniel Heaton@2D0XPS

@GordonFbpe @chinmj I know of only a tiny no who go by Mr/Fr/Dr/Canon Surname (the general trend for informality and also the deprofessionalisation of the clergy). Senior clergy will say, “Please don't call me Mr/Mme Archdeacon,” but they're the same gen who say, “Oh no, Mr Smith is my father.”

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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@2D0XPS I’m not entirely sure if it’s correct or not. Would it be Mrs/Ms Dean otherwise? I wonder whether Mrs Dean felt a bit archaic, but Dean Sarah arrived before I started working there so I’m not sure how it came about.
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Daniel Heaton
Daniel Heaton@2D0XPS·
@BenRConductor I've never heard Dr Dean before. I don't think the Speaker becomes Dr Speaker when the holder has a doctorate.
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Madeline Grant
Madeline Grant@Madz_Grant·
If you want to see the best and worst of the Commons, watch Catherine West's snippy response to Geoffrey Cox. Disoriented by a rare display of brilliance in the Commons, she can only call him patronising (inevitably, before reading off a sheet) and her colleagues can only jeer
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Rebecca (Bex) Chapman
Rebecca (Bex) Chapman@bexchapman3boys·
Kicking off our week in Westminster for #GeneralSynod with a House of Laity meeting First speeches of the day - on the pros and cons of gender-neutral language with discussion on if we want to keep 'Chairman' or move to 'Chair' #synod Reader, we chose 'Chair'
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@Rgt71Robert @churchofengland @ArchbishopSarah How is this anything other than service over status, humility over power? Archbishop Sarah has used her voice in the Lord’s to lead the way on opposition to Assisted Suicide - this is one of vanishingly few ways where clergy can have a net positive impact politically speaking.
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Robert Thompson (he/him)
Robert Thompson (he/him)@Rgt71Robert·
I don’t think bishops sitting in the House of Lords reflects the way of Jesus. Christ chose service over status and humility over power. @churchofengland @ArchbishopSarah should speak boldly in public life — but that can be done more faithfully when it does so without inherited privilege and reserved seats. @NatSecSoc @Humanists_UK
Archbishop of Canterbury@ArchbishopSarah

A seat in the House of Lords is about service. Being reintroduced today, as the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a moment to pause and reflect on that responsibility. I take this role seriously - drawing on my faith and seeking to bring careful scrutiny to legislation, in service of the common good, for people of all faiths and of none.

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Marcus Walker
Marcus Walker@WalkerMarcus·
Trying to find a good bible study for a Lent Course is a complete pain. Either they're politicised and all about climate change or something equally tiresome, or it's actually a daily study, or it's too long for Lent, or it hardly touches on the Bible.
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@WalkerMarcus @CptHastings1916 Seeing a lot of people rejoicing at the demise of the handshake at the peace - beyond the hygiene concerns for some, what’s the reason for this? We’ve gone back to it in St Davids, and actually the clergy do a little ‘peace walkabout’ whilst the offertory hymn strikes up.
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NPRG@CptHastings1916·
Covid really did do a number on shaking hands for the Peace. Almost everyone just does the little nod and the Namaste pose with their hands.
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Fergus Butler-Gallie
Fergus Butler-Gallie@_F_B_G_·
I think, for the foreseeable future, I am going to pray this prayer- one of the Prayer Book’s finest- every morning and evening.
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@DrFrancisYoung @liturgicalben @2D0XPS Good point, in the right hands it can bring out the best in your laity, in the wrong hands it’s an excellent excuse for setting people against each other and getting away with an awful lot in the ensuing chaos
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Dr Francis Young
Dr Francis Young@DrFrancisYoung·
@BenRConductor @liturgicalben @2D0XPS In theory, yes, but in practice the Vatican II-style rhetoric of ‘the ministry of the whole people of God’ is easily turned into an ad hoc justification for palming off work on untrained laypeople and re-packaging institutional failure as progress
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Ben Richards@BenRConductor·
@liturgicalben @DrFrancisYoung @2D0XPS Isn’t that the point though? Being a priest isn’t doing all the ministry, it’s providing the environment to ensure all the ministry gets done, between the clergy and the laity. We are all a royal priesthood, after all
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Ben Phillips
Ben Phillips@liturgicalben·
@DrFrancisYoung @2D0XPS As one bishop snidely commented to me recently ‘Ministry is the work of the whole people of God’. It is, but if you don’t equip the whole people of God and only offer them scraps of drivel, “I think-ism” and ‘nice’, then it’s going to be for naught.
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