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10 Dec 1702: d. Michael Boyle, Archbishop of #Armagh and former Lord Chancellor of #Ireland #otd aged 93 in his house at Oxmantown #Dublin (Armagh County Museum)

Royal visit: Queen Victoria’s many connections to Ireland She first set foot in Ireland not long after the worst years of the famine on August 2nd, 1849, at Cobh

Royal visit: Queen Victoria’s many connections to Ireland

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif.
Hard mode - no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney animated or Pixar.

I commend the use of Tsar rather than Czar.

Today I visited St Gobnait's Shrine and Holy Well.

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There is something very sound about the King of Norway hosting "the country's bishops" - a not insignificant phrase - for dinner at this season. 🇳🇴 ⛪️
H/t @msteele1549.bsky.social

One can learn a lot from our brethren in the North.

Thanks be to God for Porvoo.

"Security? The word's become a bloody joke!"

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@johnnylowden.bsky.social

Time for the "Where Eagles Dare" random quote and image thread. I shall begin.

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"How are things in Berlin?"

Once again, the RCL lection goes to the heart of the Advent pilgrimage.

Matthew 7: 21, 24-27

How are we preparing our spiritual foundations ?

On the rock or the shifting sands ?

First of the Advent Great O's...

O dear they have remade Amadeus.

Worse of course is the dreaded North American pronunciation -

Glen-da-low.

Exactly.

Interesting, this I need to research. D&G have been united for at least eight hundred years.

To paraphrase the fifth Governor of the Roman province of Judaea...

"What has been written has been written"

Naturally.

I might also bring back the old custom of presenting an episcopally signed BCP to the Confirmees [as they will become].

A fine RCL lesson in this season of Advent.

Matthew 15: 29-37

In this season we are the crowds - exhausted and weighed down. So often our response is like that of the disciples... looking at the blunt reality rather than the miracle of Christ's abundance - specifically in the Eucharist.

@laudablepractice.bsky.social

The Rev'd William Sherrard makes it plain...

His middle name was "Nassau"

"...In these latitudinarian days..."

I look forward to refuting the errors of the confirmands this afternoon. ⚓️

"...that our pure and reformed Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions."

For my money his best novel was Witch Wood. ⚓️

Endorsed by the Dragon King no less!

@johnnylowden.bsky.social Rector, I know the faithful like to show off their Advent Devotional reading every year...

So here is my recommendation.

The months of April and May are particularly good.

All good wishes,

The Vicar.

A fine portrait.

The Twenty-First Century equivlent of "Singeing the King of Spain's Beard."

That was very brave.

Deserving of an OBE at the very least.

We are all diminished by his death.

Aperitif ?

Come in your thousands!

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