Calvin Quick

Thank you!

Just defended (successfully) my first generals paper, step 1 of this degree done 💪

statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary with child, crowned with flowers

Vases of spring flowers in front of an aspersorium

It’s Mary’s month again!

Amtrak sign in Shelby, ND

On the road

A basket of candles

man in lace in the sacristy

Candlemas 🕯️🕯️🕯️

tomorrow we bless candles, and then we're gonna bless throats with those candles 😎

terrible metal swing seats against a brick wall

pabt bringing back non-nostalgic memories of 2000s muni shelter seats

Picture of a small river in the winter from over a bridge, bare trees lining the shores

saddle river park in the rain

basically a cult!

This is much easier if you either a) join a cult, or b) go to grad school!

Main altar of a church, dressed in green with candlesticks, flowers, reliquaries. Artificial lights off, stained glass windows on either side of the altar. Pink dossal.

Gospel side of the nave of the church, with wooden pews and lightly decorated windows.

Quiet church after stir-up Sunday.

STIR up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people: that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded.

Picture of the chancel of S. Bartholomew’s church from the back pews, with a few congregants, and server and priest at the altar. Green paraments, pink dossal, red vestments.

S. Clement’s Day

O God, who makest us glad with the yearly festival of blessed Clement thy Martyr and Bishop: mercifully grant; that as we now observe his heavenly birthday, so we may imitate his constancy in suffering for thy sake. Through (etc).

am reading Heim and Kratzer for the first time and this is actually quite fun

incredibly funny that the church of england is falling to bits, the archbishop of canterbury resigned in disgrace, and his predecessor is just combing his eyebrows and murdering jordan peterson in the guardian. you love to see it

Both priest AND organist were sick this morning, and we couldn’t find a substitute organist in time… so high mass was unaccompanied this morning!

Always feels like a blessing in disguise when there’s unexpectedly no organ, since it shows us we can all sing our parts (and well!) without it.

People’s Anglican Missal open to the directions and propers for the 25th Sunday after Trinity, and a leaflet for the service.

If on any year there be twenty-six Sundays after Trinity, the service for the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany shall be used on the Twenty-fifth Sunday.

And NOTE, That the service from the aforesaid Sunday after Epiphany shall be used with the following Propers: Introit. Dixit Dominus.

Making a deal with myself to finish all my grading in one go this afternoon so I can go for a nice sunset walk at [checks calendar] 4:50pm!

anglican missal girly who only uses the knott missal for the leonine prayers

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monthly being a generous term

It’s my monthly Sunday “off” at church tomorrow, so I’m excitedly awaiting being able to sit in a pews and sing the hymns for a change :)

Love identifying all the new linguistics grad students who also love buses and trains every year

meme of two lobsters fighting while three college kids excitedly throw money to bet on it everyone - the fighting lobsters and the depraved kids cheering them on - is labeled 'leftists'

people just showing up to bluesky: there's not enough political conflict here

bluesky, for the entire first year and a half of its existence:

This is a Great Western Railway service to Truro. We’ll be calling at Truro. The next station is Truro.

it started snowing shortly after lol

winter park

picture of a laptop with a PDF text document open on the table tray of an Amtrak roomette. USB stick in the left side of the computer, water bottle perched on the right

Picture of a rural small town under stormy cloudy skies, a road cuts across the front of the shot with a couple trees between it and the camera

writing papers on the train is so underrated

went to drop off petition forms at the union office and met another celticist, and a “welsh-er” at that!

Prosit Neujahr 🌹

Makes me think, I once spent a week in Shetland in mid-August—the thick dark curtains on
the windows came in very useful at “night”