Jonathan Roberts
@jonoloyo.bsky.social
Anglican priest, Ethnomusicologist, Succentor Hereford Cathedral, Gamelan musician
Hereford Cathedral hosts Creative Cloisters yesterday and today: people are invited to come and be inspired by our gardens and buildings. My creativity is word-based rather than the paint or pastels type, so a haiku a day.
Bumble buzz, stone dust
Fountain’s cool, printer’s heat
Far-felt organ thrum
Bumble buzz, stone dust
Fountain’s cool, printer’s heat
Far-felt organ thrum
July 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hereford Cathedral hosts Creative Cloisters yesterday and today: people are invited to come and be inspired by our gardens and buildings. My creativity is word-based rather than the paint or pastels type, so a haiku a day.
Bumble buzz, stone dust
Fountain’s cool, printer’s heat
Far-felt organ thrum
Bumble buzz, stone dust
Fountain’s cool, printer’s heat
Far-felt organ thrum
Today’s big flowers.
July 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today’s big flowers.
Hereford Cathedral hosts Creative Cloisters today and tomorrow: people are invited to come and be inspired by our gardens and buildings. My creativity is word-based rather than the paint or pastels type, so, a haiku a day.
Seaside heat, gulls cry
Hoverflies sip hollyhocks
Ancient stone shimmers
Seaside heat, gulls cry
Hoverflies sip hollyhocks
Ancient stone shimmers
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hereford Cathedral hosts Creative Cloisters today and tomorrow: people are invited to come and be inspired by our gardens and buildings. My creativity is word-based rather than the paint or pastels type, so, a haiku a day.
Seaside heat, gulls cry
Hoverflies sip hollyhocks
Ancient stone shimmers
Seaside heat, gulls cry
Hoverflies sip hollyhocks
Ancient stone shimmers
Astonishing hydrangeas in the cloister garden.
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Astonishing hydrangeas in the cloister garden.
The first agapanthus is out.
July 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The first agapanthus is out.
A floor tile from St Michael’s Tenbury where we took the cathedral choir for an evensong visit today.
June 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A floor tile from St Michael’s Tenbury where we took the cathedral choir for an evensong visit today.
I re-strung all of these today.
June 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I re-strung all of these today.
Very proud to be part of this www.herefordcathedral.org/news/st-thom...
St Thomas Cantilupe Primary take part in Evensong
On Thursday 26 June 2025, we will be holding a very special Evensong as children from St Thomas Cantilupe Primary School will be joining the cathedral choristers. We extend a very warm welcome to all ...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Very proud to be part of this www.herefordcathedral.org/news/st-thom...
The Succentor says: 'Wish you were here: come to Evensong at Hereford Cathedral!'
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June 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Succentor says: 'Wish you were here: come to Evensong at Hereford Cathedral!'
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Another creature that shares my workplace.
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Another creature that shares my workplace.
Another creature that works in the same building as me.
June 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Another creature that works in the same building as me.
You can get used to having a world-class choir singing back when you intone the words 'O Lord, open Thou our lips'... I was not ready, however, for yesterday when the response came from the combined choirs of three cathedrals! Three Choirs Festival preparation Evensong was quite something.
May 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You can get used to having a world-class choir singing back when you intone the words 'O Lord, open Thou our lips'... I was not ready, however, for yesterday when the response came from the combined choirs of three cathedrals! Three Choirs Festival preparation Evensong was quite something.
It is not often one gets to preach with a full orchestra as a soundtrack! This is a sermon on the texts of the day, but also a personal manifesto, and a theological love letter to the place where I work.
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Sermon for the Feast of Consecration
1 Chronicles 29:6-19; John 2:13-22 ‘O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.’
liturgicallyheldbreath.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It is not often one gets to preach with a full orchestra as a soundtrack! This is a sermon on the texts of the day, but also a personal manifesto, and a theological love letter to the place where I work.
liturgicallyheldbreath.substack.com/p/sermon-for...
liturgicallyheldbreath.substack.com/p/sermon-for...
The dispensers of holy oils at the Hereford Chrism Mass.
April 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The dispensers of holy oils at the Hereford Chrism Mass.
This colleague is strangely like a parrot for Herefordshire…
April 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This colleague is strangely like a parrot for Herefordshire…
Another creature from my workplace... a foliate sort of lion head.
April 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Another creature from my workplace... a foliate sort of lion head.
Please do let anyone who might apply know about this.
March 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Please do let anyone who might apply know about this.
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.4 A representative pair of the birds that perch on many of our tiles.
March 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.4 A representative pair of the birds that perch on many of our tiles.
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.3 A jolly pig/boar in the Dean’s livery with an acorn.
March 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.3 A jolly pig/boar in the Dean’s livery with an acorn.
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.2 A melancholy angel.
March 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.2 A melancholy angel.
I often forget how much I love short stories, particularly collections that are slightly threaded together. ‘Boys, Beasts, and Men’ by Sam Miller is just marvellous.
March 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I often forget how much I love short stories, particularly collections that are slightly threaded together. ‘Boys, Beasts, and Men’ by Sam Miller is just marvellous.
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.1 A tapestry-bearing wolf from the shrine of Thomas Cantilupe.
March 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Some of the creatures that work in the same building as me, a series... No.1 A tapestry-bearing wolf from the shrine of Thomas Cantilupe.
New sermon up: learning to put ourselves on the line for others as God does for us.
March 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New sermon up: learning to put ourselves on the line for others as God does for us.
Reposted by Jonathan Roberts
A stunning bucket excavated at Zerzevan Kalesi in the Diyarbakır Museum.
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A stunning bucket excavated at Zerzevan Kalesi in the Diyarbakır Museum.