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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · Jun 23

Happy pride and blessed Corpus Christi - I'm still v proud of this book - please read it

kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · Jun 22

"Thy holy cities are a wilderness..."
From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the banks of the Don, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto.
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The Magi Come to Toronto
E.G.N. Lafleur

cover:
A section of Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble), a late 15th century British textile depicting angels and fleur de lis in gold on a background of red. The title and author's name are written over the image in all caps serif in white. A white border surrounds.

text:
“To read The Magi Come To Toronto is to feel it in your body, like kneeling before an altar or lover. E.G.N. Lafleur leads poetry devotees on an intimate pilgrimage through the wet cold of Ontario winter, where city becomes wilderness, memory becomes revelation, and to love is to feast in due season. A truly impressive debut.”

Sydney Hegele,
author of Bird Suit & The Pump

kithbooks.com

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Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 2d

Discover Tab finding out about the Jesus Seminar would be a catastrophe

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Squid @hootiehoo19.bsky.social · 1d

The Pillar published an interview with the priest from the eucharistic procession to the ICE facility and he called Barron, Dolan, and Paprocki all white nationalists lmfao

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2d

If they're vlogging vlogging I'm impressed

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2d

Gym bros* Franklin Expeditioning themselves

* gender neutral

ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 2d

I knew I couldn't trust random YouTube sponsorships

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2d

The Canadian propensity to folklore kitsch based on real Indigenous stories...

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2d

I hear there are a lot of Anglo Catholics in Australia...

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 2d

Bar bathroom doctrine of God

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 2d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 4d

Oddly suitable memento mori

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 4d

I wish we would get some seasonal mists here!

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 4d

Cycling to evensong in the mist? More like driving between towns in the blowing snow

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 4d

It's why I'm fascinated by the (idealised) vision of rural ministry in eg. Grantchester - it's just so strange to me. If you were going to have a Canadian equivalent, the detective would have to be called something like Fr Carhartt and drive a Subaru around the East Kootenays

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 5d

A C13 stoup by the South door at East Wellow, Hants. Paintwork thought to be of the same period. Bowl modern.

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 5d

This cracked me a little bit. The truest and best use of priesthood, to bring the broken body of Christ to the broken bodies snd souls of the world. I don’t know what else to say but that it's so deeply fitting.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 5d

I was waiting for you to appear on this thread

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Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social · 6d

veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
It's here at last, after 3 years (or 15, depending on how you're counting). Profound gratitude to all at Veer2, especially Rob Kiely, to Leda Scully for the cover artwork, and profoundest thanks of all to Harry Gilonis, my indefatigably scholarly and gentlemanly co-author

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions — Veer2.org

Kit Fryatt & Harry Gilonis - Book of Inversions Veer2 Publication 050 [ISBN:...

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 6d

www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/thema...

kith in print

Thy holy cities are a wilderness... From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the Don river, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be...

www.kithbooks.com

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 7d

If you aren't committed to ensuring women and girls who crave a high sacramental tradition have a worshipping community that will ordain them, get out of my way

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thomas hapax @hapax.bsky.social · 6d

Boys, hello

BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 7d

although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth

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e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 7d

At least in Canada there is a sense the Anglicans are woke and not to be trusted. I'm doing my parish placement in a wealthy and conservative part of BC. Last Saturday there were both freedom protests and Palestine solidarity protests downtown. I wonder what the average person took from either

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 7d

I read Al Barrett's substack, and I've been thinking about this since he posted it. I don't know where - as we saw with ICE & the pastor - the social authority of the church stops in your context. I saw churches being vandalized by the people who complained Britain wasn't Christian enough.

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · 7d

Happy feast!

e.g.n. @egnlafleur.bsky.social · Aug 5

Apologia Pro Vita Sua is proof that being a little bit bitchy is not an impediment to being a doctor of the church...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 7d

New Apostolic Exhortation just dropped. Get exhorted.

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

www.vatican.va

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