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My mama don’t like you… …and she likes everyone…

@DuncanHegan1 @EFT_Mercia @EastHullBW Yeh we are poorest 21% and the majority of the congregation live in parish. Things may be different in London, but it's not by chance that the Anglo-Catholic parish was built in the poor south of the town in 1878 to be the only church in town without pew rents...

@EFT_Mercia @EastHullBW Something like 85% of Society parishes (so, Traditionalists) are in the 50% most deprived CofE parishes. There are a very small number of Anglo Catholic parishes which are UMC coded but the vast majority are not, and the movement originated in slums.

Church of England central comms promoting pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham! How far things have come!

@revdmesmith @charlottecholey @churchofengland @FideliumLondon @onfiremission But it's not fully.inclusive of all of use, I for example would be unable to receive there. Unless you're saying those of us who hold to a traditional understanding of orders don't count?

@redcurrant101 @charlottecholey @churchofengland @FideliumLondon I would disagree. There are plenty of fully inclusive places (and I know some superb priests who are women in the catholic tradition). I think that some just chose to ignore them. @onfiremission is such a place - a place of radical inclusion and hospitality

"It's a place about Christ, about God coming close to us." Every May, the National Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is held. @FideliumLondon, a network of young anglo-catholic Christians in London explain why it is such a significant place. #PilgrimPlaces

@revdmesmith @charlottecholey @churchofengland @FideliumLondon In that case there are no fully inclusive places...because either some can't receive or some can't officiate. In the interests of avoiding clericalism I would always come down on the side of preferencing the laity all being able to receive in good conscience...

@charlottecholey @churchofengland @FideliumLondon You cannot use the words ‘inclusive of all Christians’ when those called by God into ordained ministry aren’t able to exercise their ministry there. There is no exclusion of those receiving ministry, I agree. However, it is not a fully inclusive place.

@2D0XPS @DrFrancisYoung We manage choral Evensong and Benediction every Sunday...and we aren't exactly huge...

@DrFrancisYoung Even*𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨* probably is only ‘something cathedrals do’ (or large parish churches): most places don't have the musical resources. But there's nothing to stop every village church opening up for said Offices with congregations of 2 or 3, it's only a lack of will.

Things like Benediction and Marian devotion have become almost the sine qua non of modern ACism: Pusey, Liddon, Benson, etc would probably be horrified. Things they really cared about like regular Confession and the public celebration of the Office seem to have taken a backseat.

A little icon work to celebrate S. Gemma Galgani's feast day yesterday ☺️ #icon #saintgemmagalgani #saintgemmaorapronobis

How is this not obvious? 😅🙈

@Liturgy @2D0XPS And I, as a woman, find it deeply patronising that anyone would suggest it doesn't now, and hasn't always, applied equally to me

@2D0XPS @redcurrant101 I think we're done here, Daniel. I contend that the average contemporary English speaker nowadays would not image "how happy is the man who bought this coat" as having a 50% chance of being a sentence about a woman. Have a blessed Easter Week and Season.

The ESV lectionary has “born anew” in John 3:3 rather than the “born again” in the main ESV text. I'm not sure there's semantically much of a difference, but it's interesting they felt the need to change it.

@2D0XPS @Liturgy Out who* typos 🙈

@2D0XPS @Liturgy The erasure of the familial language is also thoroughly unhelpful in working ago us actually being addressed

@Liturgy @2D0XPS The removal of 'son of man' is particularly unhelpful in the way it hides the messianic tones

@Liturgy @2D0XPS Psalm 8:4 & Hebrews 2:6-8 Mark 1:17 Psalm 34:20 & John 19:3 Psalm 19:12 Ezekiel 2:1 Hebrews 5:1 To name just a few...

This!

@Liturgy @2D0XPS I generally avoid the NRSV, I find it's mangling of the text to make it more 'gender inclusive' both patronising and annoying

@redcurrant101 @2D0XPS RSV (with issues) was great for its day 80 years ago but times have changed: scholarship has improved; English language has shifted significantly. The NRSVue is th new-improved translation standing in that tradition [especially importnt for people not agile in Biblical languages]

@2D0XPS @Liturgy I was introduced to it as the *extremely sound version* in evo circles many moons ago 😅 I have to admit it's grown on me with using it as the lectionary, I still prefer the RSV-CE mind 😅

@Liturgy It's the translation approved for RCs in England and Wales and is a standard translation among Evangelicals in England and Wales. Everyone's using it; it's the Ecumenical Standard Version (ba dum tiss): why wouldn't you use the ESV?

Did you know that the oldest recorded poem in English is about Good Friday? This is The Dream of the Rood - a poem where the cross of Christ talks to the poet about the crucifixion - read in Old English by Dr Alexandra Zhirnova, at @StPaulsLondon.

The late Queen issued a single Easter message in the 70 years of her reign, a one-off during the pandemic. There is no break with tradition, and this is the purest example of clickbait.

Really unknown little tip here but the way you save churches isn’t by meaningless legislation but by going to them. One to keep in your back pocket that.

The Government’s Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, set to expire on 31 March, has run out of funds before the introduction of its replacement, the Places of Worship Renewal Fund, leaving 21,000 churches subject to VAT overnight #churchnews #Echobox=1771932341" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

"Beef uses 15,000 liters of water per kilogram." Right. Yes. Staggering number. Enormous. Cannot argue with the size of it. One question though, if you'll permit it. Just one. Very small. Easily answered. Where does the water come from? Not philosophically. Not as a rhetorical exercise. Literally. Physically. Where does the water in that calculation come from? It comes from the sky. It is rain. British rain. The thing that has been falling on Britain continuously since before anyone thought to keep records and that, if you've spent more than forty minutes in this country, you will be aware is not exactly a limited resource we need to manage carefully. It is falling on a field. As it would whether or not a cow was standing in it. As it did before the cow arrived. As it will do long after everyone who has ever shared that statistic on social media has departed this planet for whatever comes next. Here is the question nobody asks. If you removed every cow from that field tomorrow morning, every single one, gone, lorry comes, the lot, would it rain less? No. Of course it wouldn't. The rain does not consult agricultural policy. The rain does not know about the infographic. The rain has one job and that job is to fall, and it performs that job with tremendous consistency regardless of what is standing beneath it. The water does not get saved. The water still falls. It just has no root system to soak into, no grazed sward to slow its movement, no hoof-churned surface to increase infiltration. It runs off the compacted, ungrazed field into the nearest river, picks up whatever topsoil hasn't been fastened down, carries it downstream, and deposits it in someone else's flood plain. The cow is not drinking your planet. The cow is, if you want to be pedantic about it, one of the more useful things that could happen to that rainfall. Go outside. It's probably raining. Have a think.

I have this on the back of my baptism, first holy communion and confirmation (combined) certificate - it's a pity the diocese no longer issue them!