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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 22d

Can anyone recommend a specifically Episcopalian blog article (or similar) about blessing objects? I'm thinking around the subject at the moment. ⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · 25d

We don't use Rite 1. I'm happy with this.

H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Aug 19

Big day for me yesterday! I wore a cassock and surplice for the first time. Officiated at Sunday Morning Prayer for the second time. Still can't really believe I'm doing this! 📕

Cassock and surplice on the same coathanger, hanging on a wooden door.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jul 27

Proud of @robminchin.bsky.social for preaching on bread as part of lay preacher training. He linked it to Lammas (coming on Friday), Christ the first fruits from the dead, and sharing the bread of our faith when it'd be easier to just not. Really well co-ordinated hymns as well!

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jul 21

Glad it went well! You'll be an expert in no time at all.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jul 21

How did it go? What vestments did you wear? Tell us all about it!!!!

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Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social · Jul 11

500 years after it was chopped off on Tower Hill and retrieved from a spike on London Bridge...

A CofE church in Canterbury wants to open its vault to see what remains of Thomas More's head

To exhume and restore his relics and possibly build a shrine
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Church seeks to exhume skull of Thomas More for 500th anniversary

An Anglican parish in Canterbury wants to open a vault to retrieve the remains of the Catholic martyr in time for the anniversary of his execution

www.thetimes.com

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · Apr 30

Per @sirocyl:

"ah yes, the classical Pope-Antipope annihilation - which yields either two Jesuits through schismatic pontifaction, or emits a Cardinal via the interregnum mechanism.

Through quantum vacuum fluctuations, a Jesuit pair may reconclave into a Pope by emitting sedevacant radiation."

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · May 2

There are still spaces in the Tower of London.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · May 1

ASA ~30, part time clergy, admin 4hrs per week

Newsletter written by retired journalist. Used to be monthly, but now less frequent. Distributed by mailchimp.

Also notices on back of Sunday bulletin written by the same. Sunday bulletin means the sheet with the order of service and prayer list.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Apr 8

Very well! My delivery was fluent and people engaged with the content. Today, though, I'm deep down exhausted.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Landmark day for me tomorrow: it's my first time preaching at a Sunday service. I'm doing three services at three locations, with the third a slightly different format. I'm up for the challenge, but it's also daunting. Prayers appreciated! ⚓

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Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social · Feb 24

When the bus company can't remember John's name.

Next stop display on a bus that reads The Baptist Chap.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Feb 1

The announcements!

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jan 28

LOL

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jan 28

My first time in a role wearing vestments this Sunday. It's a cassock-alb. Are there vesting prayers? #Episcopal ⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jan 19

Winding down from the Epiphany blessing of chalk - job's not finished until the receipts are submitted - and ramping up for the Candlemas blessing of candles. 🕯️

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Jan 19

My church is working on safe church issues around streaming services at the moment. There is some mention it in TEC's model policies, but more information about putting it into practice would be helpful.

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EOW Without Context @eow-no-context.bsky.social · Jan 1

see, everything has become new!

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · Dec 29

One of the 12th century ‘Miracle Windows’ at Canterbury Cathedral which portray the miracles of St. Thomas Becket. Becket was martyred on this day in 1170. 📷 My own. #StainedGlassSunday #ThomasBecket

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Helen Prejean, CSJ @sisterhelen.org · Dec 23

Biden has commuted almost all federal death row. This is indeed a good day to do the Lord's work. I'm thankful to so many religious leaders and justice advocates who helped make this possible. I pray for victims' families, knowing that wishing for death is not a healing course.

Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions (Gift Article)

Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.

www.nytimes.com

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Thank you! That's helpful.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Dec 20

Opinions wanted! What's the best chalk for chalking lintels at #Epiphany? Any other tips from experience for the blessing of chalk?⚓

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Dec 6

Me too, even though I'm on the other side of the pond. ⚓

Rachel Mann's book, "Do not be afraid", with a background of grey fabric and multicolored tassles.

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H. Minchin @hminchin.bsky.social · Dec 2

Maybe Kara Slade? She's at Princeton. Or Megan Castellan is in Ithaca, home of Cornell.

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