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@RevMarkBroadway BTW thank you for your Lenten devotional on Numbers - very good - especially blessed by the entry on moving. Also knowing you are a fellow THFC man. Thank you!

Telling my wife that if she doesn’t confess the Quicunque Vult then she can’t come to our daughter’s christening.

@BDamian25 @RevMarkBroadway Catholick thank you....

@RevMarkBroadway This is the catholic faith…

@MikeFirth4 @thesundaysport a "Godless college of Gower St" alumni I presume?

@thesundaysport In what way is Strand Poly a "top UK university"?

Our work on this planet is done

@EchteYuriUren @SandyofCthulhu Matters if you are speaking to a Scotsman!

@SandyofCthulhu The Holland/Netherlands distinction is similar to the England/Britain distinction. That is to say, there is a meaningful difference but when speaking informally it doesn't really matter

Fun fact: in the 19th century, the "Dutch" in American use referred to both Germans and Netherlanders. They were all "Dutchmen", derived from the term "Deutsch". Since there was no Germany until 1871, this made total sense. Thus, in the Civil War, Howard's 11th Corps was called the "Dutchmen" because they were Germans. The "Pennsylvania Dutch" are from Germany and speak German. "Those clever Dutchmen" referred to Germans as much as the Netherlands. Once Germany united, we started calling the Germans Germans, and the term Dutch began to be applied primarily to inhabitants of Holland & the other, lesser Netherlands territories. (pictured: Pennsylvania Dutch barn with protective hex signs)

@MollieBoss @PolitlcsUK Scottish pancakes

@PolitlcsUK American pancakes! What’s wrong with British style pancakes?

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer gifts Rachel Reeves pancakes for Shrove Tuesday

@happy_foxxy @PolitlcsUK Proper Scottish pancakes

@PolitlcsUK Can't even offer proper English pancakes. Is there anything our government likes about us?

@DuncanHegan1 If you are one of those wild modernists using CW then you would be celebrating the lesser festival of ++Junani (who actually seems worthy of remembrance!)

Anyone who went to church or opened a prayer book/app today would know this.

Shrove Tuesday doesn’t liturgically exist. It isn’t in any church calendar anywhere. It is the day before Ash Wednesday. If you look up the RC calendar for today it says “Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time”. Must we do this every year?

@_adamcherry_ @grok Scottish pancakes are like this

Hello @grok these looks like American-style pancakes to me. Do you agree? A betrayal of Britain perhaps?!

@2D0XPS Amen and Amen.

One of the radical things about Christianity is that there are no ‘Christian people’, just people who are Christians. “Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham (or Augustine, Bede, Cranmer, etc) as our father’…

@2D0XPS Sorry - the one that abolished the traditional counties and gave the English such monstrosities as Huntingdon and Peterborough CC ( I can’t recall its name sorry!)

@Kwitie There were 130 acts passed in 1965. You might need to be more specific.

This is when Britain's decline began. Followed next year by the Local Government Act.

@pmo100 @ClarkeMicah The book stays the same, the reader changes…

@Kwitie @ClarkeMicah I really don’t understand re-reading something 50 years on and moralising about it when Fraser wrote Flashman as a morally repugnant anti-hero, but a very funny one. Maybe PH should just stick with bible from now on.

'Flashman, with the evil cunning of a desperate sewer rat, tricks the soldier into volunteering for his own grisly death and sneers at him as he dies. Now, this is bad enough, but Fraser beguiles his readers (well, this one certainly) into being glad, even relieved, that Flashman has saved his bacon by encompassing the death of another human creature.' thelampmagazine.com/blog/safe-from…

@pmo100 @ClarkeMicah I think PH’s article is about his relationship with the Flashman books and what it signifies in the changes in himself. Specifically in how he has come to realise just how Christianity has changed him (Peter Hitchins) although I could be wrong…

@ClarkeMicah We all know Flashman and his traits, why would you read it expecting him to develop a conscience and any redeeming features whilst on his adventures? I don’t get your angle on this.

@StonefishMarc @Mr_Andrew_Fox Same same

@Mr_Andrew_Fox 👏👏 As a Spurs fan that at first made me laugh and then cry at the truth of it…

Take a bow, Paul Wilson.

@kevinobriencha1 @ProudofusUK If the author is Jonathan Aitken (ex MP) then his redemption story is also very interesting

@ProudofusUK John Newton is one of the great forgotten men This biography is pretty good

He was ENSLAVED. Then he enslaved OTHERS. Then he wrote the most famous hymn in the world 🇬🇧 His name was John Newton. Born in London, 1725. Mother died when he was six. At sea by eleven. By twenty, he was wild, reckless, flogged by the Navy. Then enslaved in Sierra Leone by a slave trader's wife. A storm nearly killed him on the voyage home. He cried out to God for the first time in years. He called March 21st his spiritual birthday. But here's the uncomfortable part. He didn't stop. He became a slave ship captain. Three voyages. Hundreds of people in chains below his deck. He knew it was wrong. He kept doing it. A stroke ended his sea career. Slowly, over years, something changed. He became a clergyman. In 1772, in a small parish in Buckinghamshire, he wrote a hymn. "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." He meant every word. But the hymn wasn't the ending. In 1785, a young MP called William Wilberforce came to see him. Wilberforce wanted to leave Parliament for the church. Newton told him to stay. To fight slavery from inside the system. Wilberforce stayed. In 1788, Newton published his testimony - “Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade." 3,000 copies. One for every MP and Lord. He described what he'd done. No one could dismiss it. He'd been there. On 25 March 1807, Parliament abolished the slave trade. Newton was 82. Nearly blind. Still alive. He'd prayed to live long enough to see it. He died nine months later. The hymn he wrote became the most recorded song in the English language. The anthem of the civil rights movement. A slave trader's guilt became the voice of FREEDOM 🙏 One man's guilt. One conversation. One hymn. One law. They don't teach you the full story. We do 👇 proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

@RevMarkBroadway Finally got it today!

Lent begins on Wednesday 18th February - this year, don’t give up chocolate, take up Journeying with God in the Wildernes: amzn.eu/d/02nhGJu4

@2D0XPS @benjamindcrosby This must be the Wee Frees?

@benjamindcrosby I think the strict Sabbatarians would say that all courtship was inappropriate on the Lord's Day. People forget that James I had to pull the Book of Sports because it was considered too lax; when Charles reissued it the Long Parliament had it publicly burnt.

@IanGee2023 @DreyfusJames The old picketts lock leisure centre moving to the Edmonton Green foot bridge! I went up on it a few days prior to closure. It really was a pointless bridge as traffic light x-ing only a few feet on!

@DreyfusJames He actually did the stunt when he was hanging off the back of a double decker bus on roller skates and if that isn't a commitment to a part I don't know what is! 😁

I’ve had “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” back to back today. And, my god, I genuinely belly-laughed through every episode. Michael Crawford’s creation was my inspiration for Kevin Goody in “The Thin Blue Line”. Unfortunately, the character was so successful, that, back in the 70/80’s, impressionists, unknowingly, innocently & unwittingly, cheapened & diluted the core genius of Frank Spenser. To see Crawford, as Spenser in full swing again, so many years later makes that very clear. The character became a caricature in the minds of so many. But a revisit truly shows what an original, daring & gifted performer MC really is. A genius performance by @CrawfordMichael

@JamesAHogg2 If I recall correctly there were different variations of the theme. One segued into a “life on the ocean wave” for example

If anyone needs cheering up today, might I recommend this. It’s the Miss Marple Theme by the legendary Ron Goodwin, used for all four of Margret Rutherford’s Miss Marple movies. All of which are bloody brilliant, IMVHO. I've posted it several times and it’s an absolute banger! By the way, did you know that Agatha Christie dedicated her novel, The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side, to Margaret Rutherford. She hated the four films though, as in her opinion they played too much for laughs. Balderdash! Happy weekend one and all x

@ChrisO_wiki Will there be any gold to speer for the building?

New concept design for the remodelled Kennedy Center (IYKYK)