Gavin Wort

The chaplains send greetings to everyone celebrating International Women’s Day! We give especial thanks today for our women chaplains @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Happy Holi to Hindu students, staff and friends of @durham.ac.uk celebrating today! @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Students & colleagues at @durham.ac.uk: if you’d value support, please reach out to the chaplains - email chaplaincy@durham.ac.uk or find contact details for all the chaplains at www.durham.ac.uk/faith-support @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

A personal reflection:

Lent begins quietly for me this year after a busy day with this book created by the Society of Francis…

‘Ash Wednesday gives us that… invitation: to name what needs healing - in ourselves, in our communities, and in our relationship with creation’

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Ramadan Mubarak to Muslim students, staff and friends beginning the month of Ramadan! @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Happy Year of the Horse to students, staff and friends celebrating the Spring Festival! @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Happy Maha Shivratri to Hindu students, staff and friends on this Festival of Lord Shiva! @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Enjoying refreshments in the Deanery with members of the massed college choirs who sang Choral Evensong most wonderfully in Durham Cathedral today @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

It’s World Interfaith Harmony Week. To find out more, go to worldinterfaithharmonyweek.com

It’s a great week to reach out to those of differing faiths in friendship and harmony. Our fragile and divided world needs individuals with the courage to do so

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Job alert! Apply now for our two Student Interfaith Leader posts. Deadline: 16 February 2026 👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio... @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

@durham.ac.uk students, staff, alumni & friends: come & support your College Choir as they join w/ the Cathedral Choir to sing Choral Evensong in Durham Cathedral at 3.30pm on Sunday 8 February. Individuals of all faiths, beliefs and worldviews are most welcome to join us @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

This evening, we marked #HolocaustMemorialDay w/ event organised by @durham.ac.uk Jewish Society, Stephenson College & Chaplaincy Network. Vivienne Cato shared her mother Eva’s story as Slovakian Jewish Holocaust survivor. We also held an act of commemoration @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay. We remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. We also remember the millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution of other groups and in more recent genocides #lightthedarkness🕯️ @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

#HolocaustMemorialDay event today in Newcastle w/ candle-lighting, prayers, secondary school students’ reflections & songs by massed choir of primary school children. Sensitively led by Smajo Beso, Bosnian Genocide survivor, w/ input from Holocaust survivor, Martin Stern @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

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Welcome Alex Gooch as Assistant Chaplain at St Mary’s College! Alex’s approach is informed by his lifelong interest in philosophy. He believes it can help us to understand ourselves & to live better. As a non-religious chaplain, he’s available to College members of all faiths, beliefs & worldviews

Not this particular one but some of our chaplains are accompanied by canine friends!

Mindfulness sessions in Epiphany Term

All @durham.ac.uk students welcome!

The Listening Service is available to all @durham.ac.uk students and staff

To make an in-person or online appointment, email chaplaincy@durham.ac.uk

Happy Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti to Sikh students, staff and friends celebrating the birth of Guru Gobind Singh! @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

Stephenson College, Jewish Society & Chaplaincy Network welcomes all DU members to Holocaust Memorial Day Event. Vivienne Cato will speak before we #LightTheDarkness. To attend, complete forms.office.com/pages/respon.... Pre-registration is required @shaidmahmood.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

All DU students are most welcome to join us for our weekly Mindfulness sessions which restart on Tuesday 13th January. The theme will be ‘New Year, New Me?’ @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

It was a delight to celebrate an early morning Eucharist for the friars and guests at Alnmouth Friary on this the Feast of the Baptism of Christ. Although, the snow and ice made the journey somewhat ‘interesting’!

A joyful day of academic congregations today @durham.ac.uk. Congratulations to Fersa, Sebastian, Dr O’Hare (pictured) and all who graduated today or will do so tomorrow @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

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Enjoying a fire on this the last day of 2025. I’ve just finished reading a book about the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth & wondering whether any of my ancestors were involved in the 1830 Swing Riots in Hampshire.

I pray that 2026 will bring health, joy, peace, justice & new discoveries. Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas to all! Best wishes from me and Keller, my canine friend

Delighted to say words of thanks on behalf of @durham.ac.uk to our staff and students for this fantastic effort in donating Xmas gifts to 3 local charities working with vulnerable people in local neighbourhoods and communities. Well done @dulib.bsky.social ! @revdgavinwort.bsky.social

The Listening Service is available to DU students and staff throughout the vacation period. If you’d like to meet online or in-person with a listener, email chaplaincy@durham.ac.uk to arrange an appointment @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social

The chaplains wish Jewish students, staff and friends Chag Hanukkah Sameach! Overshadowed as the festival is by news of the tragedy in Australia, be assured of our condolences and prayers. May light triumph over darkness @durham.ac.uk @shaidmahmood.bsky.social