Michael Mason

May 25: Feast of Aldhelm (639-709), abbot of Malmesbury, bishop of Sherborne. He addressed his sprawling Epistola ad Acircium to his old friend ‘who rules over the northern lands’, Aldfrith, king of the Northumbrians.

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May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26.

The Church will remain beautiful, perennially young, and attractive in every century only as long as she is faithful to the Spirit that floods her, only as she reflects that Spirit through her very life —St Oscar Romero, Pentecost 1978 #StOscarRomero

Happy St Aldhelm's Day! 😇 Here is the man himself at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. 📸2023

Thank you for everything @Bethmerrick2 👏🏻 You’ve certainly played your part in the club’s proud history. 🧡🐺

@billy6715 101/2p a pint!!

Federation Brewery delivery van. Undated. The brewery was based in Dunston & sadly went the way of the regions other large breweries.

@billy6715 Used to be the beer of choice at Newcastle Polytechnic in the early 1970s

@CarlBovisNature A very underestimated bird. Yet beautiful

Female House Sparrow at Combwich in Somerset last weekend... don't take them for granted, they're on the Red List of conservation concern! 😮🐦

Retweet when you see it!

As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet (and comment) on this post if you see it, to help my bird account be seen! 🙏😀 To make it worth sharing, here's a tiny Goldcrest saying 'Hi' 😁😍 Thank you very much! ♥️

A feisty wren

@CarlBovisNature @Steveredwolf New life. Hope for the future. Best wishes Carl

If you see this photo, please leave a comment! 😀 Have you seen any cygnets, goslings or ducklings yet this year? 😍🐦

Rogationtide is a time, as one Anglo-Saxon writer put it, to 'bless our earthly sustenance, the acres and woods and our cattle and all the things that God has given us to enjoy.' The season celebrates humanity's deep connection to nature and its gifts: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/05/lfric-…

This week is Rogationtide - an ancient season of prayer and processions to ask for blessings on the land and the fruits of the earth. It's traditionally the time for the chaotic, riotous but important custom of 'beating the bounds'. historytoday.com/archive/out-ma…

@Official_LTFC Quite a number of our present players also have experience of gaining promotion from our league to the Northern Premier League Midlands. So will be able to share that experience. And we have Tendai Daire & Liam Read whose abundant goals were crucial to promotion Very best wishes

The goal that clinched promotion for @WolvesWomen !

Fantastic Achievement! #wwfc

SCENES 🤩 #FAWNL