Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him

Men protecting women’s spaces by chasing and harassing a woman 🤦🏽‍♂️😔

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Incredible to read the sermon I heard on Sunday summed up so succinctly here...

a woman is sitting in a chair with her arms outstretched . Alt: a woman is sitting in a chair with her arms outstretched

Does Two Pints 🍻 of Lager and a packet of Crisps count as at least being almost perhaps slightly sacramental 😉😂

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 10 Let us turn to our Father.  Then, though our questions may not be answered... we shall surely hear in the depths of our hearts good and comfortable words.

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 10

Let us turn to our Father.  Then, though our questions may not be answered... we shall surely hear in the depths of our hearts good and comfortable words.

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 18 – Stronger than the Storm Yes, I like the idea of a life of riding peacefully at anchor Yes, I look forward to, like the weaned child of Psalm 131, having a soul at peace. No, I’m not at all sure I want our Beloved to be in complete control of my life!

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 18 – Stronger than the Storm

Yes, I like the idea of a life of riding peacefully at anchor Yes, I look forward to, like the weaned child of Psalm 131, having a soul at peace. No, I’m not at all sure I want our Beloved to be in complete control of my life!

YouTube video by Movieclips Man of La Mancha (1972) - The Impossible Dream Scene (6/9) | Movieclips

…with which thought my mind has now cast #47 in the role of Don Quixote. Miracles may happen yet…

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Time to push ahead with the building of windmills 😉

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Guys, I have found the ultimate expression of Anglican spirituality. Stations at Stations, on a steam-hauled service, led by a former bishop of Sodor and Man.

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We wants one 💝
Would make a marvellous addition to my rosary making supplies

Art review: Sanctuary by Nicholas Mynheer (Portsmouth Cathedral) THE exhibition “Sanctuary” tells a story as it unfolds through paintings and sculptures surrounding the nave of Portsmouth Cathedral. The story that it tells is one that equates the flight into Egypt — which, in the Coptic Orthodox Church’s tradit...

"Mynheer’s stylistic depiction of human figures complements both the violence that he depicts and the sanctuary that is eventually found."

Jonathan Evens sees Nicholas Mynheer’s exhibition 🎨@portsmouthcathedral.org.uk 🎨

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Miss Sr Helen Julian - never knowingly minced her words but did so with gentleness and compassion

Not the only place. Soweto - sounds like an indigenous African name but is and Acronym for SOuth WEstern TOwnship…
Just a tad better than the subsidised Putco Busses which made apartheid possible by ferrying workers from ‘Black’ townships to ‘White’ factories - Peri-Urban Transport COmpany

Andrew Dotchin holding a baby that he has just baptised.

Welcome to the family little one 💝
Moments like this make all the long meetings and machinations of being a vicar worth it.
I started the day a bit worn out and run down but ended it with more joy and hope than I’ll ever deserve
#CofEPeeps ✝️

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 9 Whether it is rain or sunshine for us today, let us begin our song with thanksgiving.

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 9

Whether it is rain or sunshine for us today, let us begin our song with thanksgiving.

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 17 – Undivided Heart ... joy of joys we discover, along with Vicky, that sometimes what we thought was broken was beautiful all along.  And this has been so since our beloved breathed the Breath of Life into us.

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 17 – Undivided Heart

... joy of joys we discover, along with Vicky, that sometimes what we thought was broken was beautiful all along.  And this has been so since our beloved breathed the Breath of Life into us.

An almost empty bottle of Glenmorangie whiskey 🥃 with a glass of whiskey next to it

A young Alick Dotchin in Royal Navy uniform seated at the asdic station onboard HMS Valiant and his words If no one is complaining you're doing your job wrong (Alick Dotchin)

By my reckoning it would have been my dad’s 90th birthday today.
True Scot and long-serving submariner who visited the North Pole more times than he was allowed to tell us.
Now resting on the sea-bed near the Sugar Boat near Clydemouth.
Run Silent. Run Deep Dad
Slainté
#Glenmorangie

A photo of a diary, opened at a black page, with a pen poised to make an entry

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“Friends, a spiritual life does not demand that we pretend the world is any better than it is; only that we do not miss how the world is often much better than we feel.”

- Nadia Bolz-Weber, on seeking and finding the good and beautiful during Lent.

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 8 We don't go out alone into any endeavour. 

Whispers of His Power – MARCH 8

We don't go out alone into any endeavour. 

When I first started visiting Holy Island I was very urgent about meeting tides and being ‘efficient’.

Now I refuse to drive.
Train to Berwick,
Bus to Beal,
Walk to the Causeway.
If the tide is up I have to wait.
Waiting and listening is why I go to the Island in the first place.
Win-Win 💝

The Churches Funeral Group has been working with this for some time.
Certainly there are more helpful faith references to the use of water than of fire….

Last minute spruce up before the Day of Reflection. ❤️ #DayOfReflection

A Saint Dies Beside the Nidd By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song' Prostrate before God a final time I reach out my arms to the earth. This stone blooms with the millennia, this soil burrows with chitinous song; life bursts from the death of another — each earthly thing I've loved is fossil-rich, renewed, re-created, recycled, returned. Soon, I cannot consider the miracle, only this moment, so wholly my own. The breeze in the trees reminds me of the song of my mother’s womb; though I’ll only realise that later — after I’ve gone.

"Prostrate before God a final time
I reach out my arms to the earth.
This stone blooms with the millennia,
this soil burrows with chitinous song;
life bursts from the death of another —
each earthly thing I've loved is fossil-rich,
renewed, re-created, recycled, returned."

Beaver scouts next to a tray of children’s snacks

A notice with QR code about supporting the work of All Saints Kesgrave

A contactless donation machine inside All Saints Kesgrave

1st Kesgrave Beaver Scouts helped stock the Porch Pantry at All Saints Kesgrave as they learnt that having a faith means helping others.
Everything free - if you’ve already had some goodies please let others go first
There is more to come
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A local superhero certificate for Andrew Dotchin from 1st Kesgrave Squirrel 🐿️ Drey

Bread rolls and grapes on a brass platter

That was the Rest Day that wasn’t but it was full of joy 💝
World Book Day with 1st Kesgrave Squirrels - typecast as Father Brown and I needed no costume - followed by the Beavers filling the church with joy as they completed their World Faith Badge
I got a certificate and they had bread and ‘wine’ 😉

This was so special. The beautiful Bury Psalter was written circa 1400 in the Abbey of St Edmund and is one of only two books from the pre-Reformation Abbey to remain in Bury St Edmunds. Since 1704, it has been owned by the local grammar school who have now gifted it to @stedscath.bsky.social

Yes! The extraordinary daily-ness of love, in ordinary daily things.

To quote the great Ursula le Guin:
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 16 – Inhabit The Praise Before the service, speak to God; During the service, allow God to speak to you; After the service, speak to one another…

The Wonder of the Cross – Day 16 – Inhabit The Praise

Before the service, speak to God; During the service, allow God to speak to you; After the service, speak to one another…