Becky Mynett

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I use Friendly for all my (rapidly decreasing number of) social media accounts.

1,300-Year-Old Communion Bread Unearthed in Karaman: Inscribed “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus” - Anatolian Archaeology Archaeologists in Karaman, Türkiye, uncovered 1,300-year-old Communion bread featuring a Greek inscription “With Gratitude to Blessed Jesus”

I'm delighted by the news of the discovery of 1300-year-old Christian bread, possibly communion bread, but do wonder about the liturgical implications. Does this belong in a museum or a tabernacle? Is it still Jesus from a religious perspective? www.anatolianarchaeology.net/1300-year-ol...

Tell me you haven't got a clue what translation involves without telling me you haven't got a clue what translation involves...

I love that set too (have you got twitten in Sussex?)

You can add hymns not in their listed books, I’ve added an awful lot! It’s not much of a timesaver initially but it’s starting to pay off now. You were unlucky not to get a response, I’ve found them very helpful. Anyway, we all have our own ways of working!

Purple and blue text on a white background. The image is of a blurred indecipherable letter, text is greyed and blacked out, words emerge like offer or overdue. Tables and figures are partially visible.

What does this letter say?

Imagine this letter contains essential information and you can’t access it.

You can’t decipher the blurred text, the paper colour makes the type disappear, and the few words that you manage to read are worrying or confusing. 1/

We’ve had major issues getting the paper copy sent to the right address… but the online Sundated by Sunday is brilliant for disseminating the music list (with links to music and recordings) and sending messages.

I do! But I don’t like the site it links to for the readings and it’s easier to have the lectionary app open in another window. (I also think their suggestions are not as helpful as they used to be, but that’s another issue!j

Thanks!

I’m sorry to hear that, Angela. I have long covid and, although I’m better than I was, can’t face marketing or the stress of meeting deadlines. I’m focusing on my small choir directing job and doing some composing. Best wishes for your deliberations.

Stem ginger on vanilla ice cream (or just the syrup if you either can‘t be bothered to chop the ginger finely or want it less gingery) also candied orange or lemon peel with honey.

A semi-circular arch wrapped in corrugated card with a postage label on top. Standing on a green carpet.

I have just taken delivery of the most unusually shaped and efficiently packed parcel I have ever seen! (It’s a two-part tree ring to demarcate a small bed around a new pear tree.)

Well that’s interesting. Mine has on my iPad but not in the browser app on the laptop (where I actually need it when working).

#CofEPeeps Anyone know when the Lectionary App is going to be updated? Having paid up, it’s annoying to have to use other methods of finding the readings so I can do the Advent music list (and yes, it does need doing in October, if not earlier). @churchofengland.org

Done. Our diocese is one that gets none, which sounds fair enough in theory as we’re not in a deprived region and our finances are better than elsewhere. However, we do have pockets of deprivation and in practice, redistribution within the diocese doesn’t work as well as might be assumed.

That this Synod: a. regret that under the current system and in 2024 only 73% of lowest income communities funding (LInC) reached the most socially deprived 25% of parishes; that therefore more than £1 in every £4 of LInC funding cannot be traced as reaching a deprived parish (representing a potential total of £33 million misdirected during the next triennium); and, that 12 mainland dioceses receive no LInC funding, despite containing 268 parishes that are amongst the 25% most socially deprived.

Just signed a new #Synod motion from a member of my own diocese regarding how dioceses use lowest income communities funding and how the national church calculates who to give it to - do share with other Synod members

www.churchofengland.org/about/govern...

- We lost our WiFi connection 🤷🏼

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

We must both be on the same translators starter pack! (Not that I’m doing much translating at the moment - hope people aren’t disappointed!)

This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)

And picture 14… but at least it does seem to have an adequate number of built-in bookshelves.

Merci !

Le point de Boulogne, est-il la même chose que l‘or nué, ou tout simplement ce qu’on appelle en anglais ‘couching’?

Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed: 1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks 2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens 3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens 4: India: Cottons Cowries 5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns 6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance 7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products 8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain 9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco 10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo 11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses 12: Brazil: Coffee 13: Brazil: Gold 14: Mexico / Peru: Silver 15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America. A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled: Yellow: Books with gold covers Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell) Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book) The Office (where hazel makes tea) Bathroom Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out) The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece) Taboo The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase) Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens) A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge". The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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And now I’ve got an earworm…

It wasn’t, but I see what you mean!

When I was a kid a pheasant flew into the side of a friend’s Mum’s Renault 4. It was fine, flew away. The car was dented.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.