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at ericbbond.bsky.social

@UnvirtuousAbbey See you there. Let us know if you need help packing the chapel reshelving the library herding the cats…

If you want to keep track of the monks they are transitioning to blueksky @unvirtuousabbey.bsky.social

• Do not obey in advance. • Resist the wicked. • Tend the vulnerable. • Bear witness to truth. • Shield the exposed. • Claim reality. • Wage love.

@UnvirtuousAbbey No more adults. Plenty of venomous brutes. Supreme Court carte blanche. Less if any accountability. The Senate. An emboldened horde who hung on through extra-fasc ramp up of recent weeks. … Realizing Canada’s not typically an invader—may need to get a coalition together…

I remember during Trump’s first Presidency when I would comfort myself with the thought that there were adults in the room. There were, and they left. There are no more adults. We have a 78 year old emotionally stunted man on the precipice of power. He has 246 electoral votes

deliver us from evil. please. eleison.

@AaronBillard “Look at me—are those Advent eyes? Have you been juicing?!”

I found an old Advent resource that uses an illustration of Lance Armstrong developing his muscles by climbing the Rockies and how we have to develop "Advent eyes" by listening and anticipating. That didn't age well.

@UnvirtuousAbbey “This week on Parish Makeover, after Communion, Gordon has notes!”

For those whose workplaces include the very-real possibility that Gordon Ramsay and a camera crew could come through the doors any day at any time we pray to the Lord.

how long, o God, how long will lands called holy be stained with blood, thy vulnerable children slaughtered, starved, hated to annihilation? be mercy. set free. bear peace. amen.

@dobecall St Thomas Episcopal Church, Fort Washington PA

@EricBBond Awesome labyrinth! Where is this?

one path: into center, on to world. #prayinAround

@UnvirtuousAbbey Conquer your enemies. — not Jesus Destroy your opponents. — not Jesus “Own” those you disagree with. — not Jesus …I say love your enemies, bless those who persecute you… — Jesus

@UnvirtuousAbbey “Lions not sheep” not only rejects Jesus’ positive imaging of community as the good shepherd’s flock, it also opts for a “we’re predators, not prey!” vibe that both fails to challenge such power imbalance, and, instead of choosing the way of the cross, chooses sword. Oops.

Make this make sense

may you find your way (however unconventionally). #prayinAround #andthecommitteeoflabyrinthorthodoxycallsmemad

unwinding by winding #prayinAround

#prayinAround (& around)

wind our paths along thy Way unto peace unto love unto Thee. #prayinAround

in curving channels & winding circuits pattern evokes pathway: into center, on to world. #prayinAround

when center beckons, may we make our way. #prayinAround