Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳‍🌈

well yeah, kinda. I have the weird fortune of being born Anglican, attending Catholic primary schools when you did go to church, converting to Catholicism, going off to seminary, and then reverting to Anglicanism later.

So yeah, I recognise all those and a lot more. Who kisses their thumb still? 😮

I only know his soundtrack to Kundun (epic Scorcese film about the Dalai Lama) and that is well banging!

Because, there was me converting with some humility, careful not to say anything nasty about Anglicans or Catholics. There was he, presumably all fired up from being ordained, shooting his mouth off about a tradition he knew for less time than me (I was born an Anglican). It smacks of bad manners.

it means being celebrated or highly praised, even to the point of being made a fuss of.

Kinda like when you have a “distinguished guest” at some fancy function.

weird! He is from Pennsylvania originally.

He did spend about ten years in the UK. But that wouldn’t change the way you write, if, after all, you left in 1995!

Mind you, maybe that’s why he gets stuff wrong…too long ago? 🤭

He’s a barefaced liar. He was fêted about the time in converted to Roman Catholicism (same time as he was re-ordained). My face always burned with embarrassment when I heard him.

At first it was just little mistakes. Now I think he deliberately pushes the envelope to see how far he can go.

He’s wrong, but he always is. Thinks that because he was an Anglican cleric he has carte blanche to criticise us. Only thing is, he wasn’t an Anglican long enough, or clearly wasn’t paying enough attention, so he always gets the facts wrong. Always.

It’s tedious. The man is a sanctimonious shill.

Do you guys have consumer rights organisations? Or a local (state?) department that deals with fair trading? I think you need to threaten them somehow. I just don’t know how to do that in the USA. 🇺🇸

and given a weirdass role that doesn’t really exist! “SHIELD of the Americas”… yasss! 🛡️ (I mean, wtf)

I was going to speak to my S.D. about it, but I was “doing my homework” first too! 😁 Thanks.

The articles says he faces a disciplinary?

But anyhow, isn’t he the one who flitted around between a few dioceses, after having been an administrator of some sort and it taking too high a toll on him? (I recognise the name, you see.)

Can anybody recommend a really good edition of St Ignatius of Loyola’s ‘Spiritual Exercises’. (I mean, super excellent.)

I’m not particularly after anything with a commentary tacked on, but I’d like a good and full text. ✝️⚓️

Gafcon leaders meet in Nigeria as splits widen in Anglican Church over Sarah Mullally Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

I saw a news piece saying they want to elect their own rival to the Archbish of Cantab.

Anglican divisions deepen as rebel clerics pick rival to first female leader www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

…but more generally that they want to impose their views on people. Sorry, the world has moved on!

I understand that. Be with him then. You don’t have to say much. You can cry. And contrary to what they taught us when we were wee, you can say what you want.

That’s WONDERFUL. yippee!

I see GAFCON wants its own way, yet again. It’s so sad. And yet, heaven knows what would be necessary for rapprochement now.

Sir Michael Moritz wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews The billionaire says

One of UK's richest men wants German citizenship over 'hostility' to Jews
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

– this story occupies a strange place with me. Anti-semitism is evil. But what’s to say Germany will be better? And is there a touch of entitlement here? (“I’m rich; I can run away”) Curious. 🤨

My only advice is unconventional: I dislike the traditional prayer, fasting and alms giving triad. Instead I say I will retreat into the wilderness (desert) and learn how to pray. I will spend time trying to be near my Lord. I can’t help others if I don’t: nemo dabet quod non habet.

I spent some time living in the very traditional south of Germany. It wasn’t folded stripped palm-leaf crosses as we know them. Instead, palms and catkins and all sorts of creeping (but not yet bursting forth) twigs, fronds and branches were used.

Might have a photo somewhere! 🤞

reminds me of catkins, for Palm Sunday!

I used to do something weird if I needed to cry. Despite thinking them to be the merchandise of hell, I would put on the first of the Star Trek reboots, and wait for George Kirk to die. Floods of tears…

Find an email address online for the CEO? (And use ChatGPT to quote legal provisions, including consumer rights.)

Equally, I’d just ask for the boss’ boss and so on. It’s not customer service anymore. You need to raise a formal complaint.

What was their reason for the $540 to begin with!? They sound mean af.

North Berwick faces 'unprecedented' hostility over parking meters The picturesque East Lothian town has become a battleground between some residents and the local authority over parking charges.

North Berwick’s unwanted parking meters see £38k of vandalisms
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

…no, I couldn’t possibly condone it. Not me… 🤭

Wonderful! I would say ‘ad multos annos’ but I’d rather save that for next year! 😁

You mean like all the gnostics do!? And if it’s not John, it’s Thomas or Peter. Or the secret wife-priest Mary Magdalene (poor maligned woman).

Urgh. They’re all jackasses just making it up. Happens in Christianity, plenty false sutras in Buddhism, same with Hindu sastras (esp. for some politics).

Awww. Two of my favourite posters. Wish I was there. I do love gathering for more informal MP.

Happy days. Lots of prayers, hopes that everything goes well, and most importantly <crazy preacher voice> May The Spirit Of God Almighty Descend On You!

Seriously, what a happy day. 😁

A good result all round then? GPEW seem alright (I like them more than their Scottish cousins).

And importantly it shows degrees of disaffection: Conservative to Reform, and Labour to Green. We might not want Reform votes, but we do need to understand where they come from and why! 😅

controversial opinion:

Nicole Scherzinger murders “With One Look” in Sunset Boulevard.

Naw, hen; all those grace notes and warbling doesn’t make good music! Where do singers get these ideas these days?

A decisive “nul points”. Let me go disinfect my ideas.

miaow