I think you've managed to say more, and more insightfully, in those few posts than I managed in a couple thousand words! (and thank you so much for the encouragement!)
24.06.2025 19:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I think you've managed to say more, and more insightfully, in those few posts than I managed in a couple thousand words! (and thank you so much for the encouragement!)
24.06.2025 19:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@frsimoncuff.bsky.social has written an excellent book which articulates this much better than I ever could. 5/5
24.06.2025 19:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Today's unexpected sabbatical discovery: I've accidentally stumbled into a sub-field of medical research from Brazil that advocates for Heideggerian-inspired nursing as good practice in pallative care. ๐ตโ๐ซ
24.06.2025 18:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0George Steiner on Martin Heidegger: 'In short, Heidegger is a man literally overcome by the notion of "is", a man inexhaustibly astonished by the fact of existence, and haunted by that other possibility, which is nothingness'.
16.06.2025 23:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2I'm not sure I had "watching a livestream of the opening of Canada's parliament" on my list of things for 2025... ๐
27.05.2025 14:31 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And the 12 points goes to...
23.05.2025 13:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him.
08.05.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 4676 ๐ 607 ๐ฌ 82 ๐ 32View of clouds over Atlantic from ship
โIf you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the seaโ
- attr. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Resources for the whole church this month with Canterbury Press ๐
@canterburypress.bsky.social
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26.04.2025 09:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A book; Catholic Life in the Church of England by Simon Cuff
@frsimoncuff.bsky.social look what the postie brought along, one day late or I would have been at the launch ๐คฃ
26.04.2025 09:55 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Delighted to say you can now pre-order Selina's next book here:
scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
Out in August
#AHeavyYoke
Ice bucket full of wine bottles and box of books on back car seat
Book launch ready!
25.04.2025 11:42 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐คญ
25.04.2025 09:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
So tonight there's a rather lovely thing happening,- the launch of a book created by the splendid Fr Simon Cuff, to which I've contributed maybe 3 pages.
There will be interesting folks to listen to & the book itself is great
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event...
The Catholic Life book has been printed and arrived just in time for the launch at Mary Mags Munster Square 7pm this Friday. Now you can not only pre-order but buy and get it signed there!! An Easter miracle!
24.04.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
This Friday at 7pm (Mass at 6.30pm) we celebrate the publication of Catholic Life in the Church of England at Mary Mags, Munster Square, near Euston. We'll hear from the contributors, and there will be the opportunity to pre-order the book. All welcome!
canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978178...
May Pope Francis rest in peace and rise in the glory of the Resurrection!
21.04.2025 09:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Happy Easter!*
*or that stage of Holy Week where youโve blearily spent the morning calling light switches Alexa trying to get them to work forgetting theyโre just a light switch.
It is finished.
And weep.
A screenshot of Amazon sales rankings 'Hot New Releases in Anglicanism' showing the edited book 'Catholic Life in the Church of England' at number 2 between the 2026 lectionary and the 2026 church diary.
All the essentials for 2026...
16.04.2025 09:33 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Our wonderful director of music is launching an exciting new ensemble (inaugural concert @stgilescg.bsky.social on 15th May). They're close to their crowdfunding goal, do support this exciting new choir!
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Tickets for 15th May:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ephemeral-...
Journal of Anglican Studies!
12.04.2025 09:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Up to Derby to teach Emmanuel College ordinands, having just finished reviewing Gary Dorrienโs magisterial Anglican Identities. Calm before the Holy Week storm!
12.04.2025 07:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0A full and frank apology to the mother with the toddler who passed me in the street, pointed at me, and screamed โBUT HEโS ALLOWED TO HAVE AN ICE CREAMโ. ๐ฆ
10.04.2025 13:43 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0On April 24th at 7pm @stpetersdb.bsky.social hosts the second UK screening of the amazing Selina Cadell & Eliza Thompsonโs La Traviata - a lavish screening of the opera reimagined as a chamber work. Tickets just ยฃ12. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/la-traviat... #opera #londonopera
08.04.2025 16:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the mystery of God transcends all categories of knowing
28.03.2025 18:40 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This parish is in the bottom 1% of the deprivation index. Over 30% of adults have no qualifications.
Tonight at Lent group we wrote cinquains and had a lively discussion about apophatic and kataphatic approaches to prayer.
Never make assumptions about what people are capable of and interested in.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams & me for @justmoneymvt.bsky.social condemning the cuts announced in todayโs #SpringStatement as morally wrong and calling for a #WealthTax to help build strong communities where we can all flourish: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
26.03.2025 21:04 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A gin and tonic on a coffee table with a bowl of wotsits, holding a copy of st Mary le Bow pictorial history.
Visiting my folks and their new coffee table literatureโฆ
26.03.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0