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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him

@suffolkvicar.bsky.social

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Born UK 🇬🇧 Baptised Malta 🇲🇹 Ordained South Africa 🇿🇦 Home in Suffolk. Vicar, Franciscan, General Synod Sweetie 🍬🧚‍♀️ Fairy, Chaplain to anything with a badge 🏳️‍🌈Love💝Wins🏳️‍⚧️

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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 7h

Wishing you a peaceful night... ♥️

A poem by Samantha Camargo

It didn't hit me that life
would have to go on without you,
until I went to bed and realized
tomorrow I will have to wake up

and you still won't be here.

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 9h

#LastLaugh

Why do melons have to get married?

Because they cantaloupe…..

A cartoon of a whole golden melon and two melon slices

Why do melons have to get married?

Because they cantaloupe…..

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 9h

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Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 15 – Obligations

To wish to do without other men and to be under obligation to no one, is a sure mark of a mind devoid of feeling.

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 16h

I love the fun the volunteers @stedscath.bsky.social have with different figures during the building of our @Lego cathedral

Our bishop has just won the World Cup and all our organists are superheroes and don’t even begin to try and workout what sort of banquet is happening in the Pilgrim’s Kitchen

A Lego figure holding up a sporting trophy in front of a Lego Bishop’s throne

A Lego model of a cathedral organ with the organist wearing a superhero cape

A Lego cafeteria where the guests are kings and super villains

A Lego model of St Edmundsbury Cathedral

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 17h

Some thoughts about the flags we wave and how we respond;

Green Flags are as dangerous as Red Flags

One commands unwavering obedience
The other demands absolute rejection

We need to find shelter under the White Flag of self-surrender to the One who holds us all and weeps and rejoices over us all

A cartoon of a man in shirt and tie shouting in front of a large white flag

Green Flags are as dangerous as Red Flags

One commands unwavering obedience
The other demands absolute rejection

We need to find shelter under the White Flag of self-surrender to the One who holds us all and who weeps and rejoices over us all

(Andrew Dotchin)

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College of the Resurrection @cor-mirfield.bsky.social · 19h

The College grounds looking beautiful, even on a grey misty day.

A labyrinth cut in the grass, with a beautiful orange and yellow sycamore behind it.

Sycamore leaves, turning red, orange, and yellow.

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 19h

…and here he is again @stedscath.bsky.social
He did get around a bit

The decorated ceiling of the Choir in St Edmundsbury Cathedral

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 19h

And rest….
So very grateful to @stedscath.bsky.social for a monthly day of rest and contemplation as Duty Canon - as well as the best soup 🍜 and bread 🥯 lunch in Suffolk from the Pilgrim’s Kitchen 😋
If you have a particular prayer leave it here and I will take it to the altar at midday and 3pm

The nave altar in the cathedral at Bury St Edmunds with a green and gold frontal. In front of it on the communion rail is a lit votive candle

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 20h

Something to do other than fill up on sugar on Hallowe’en…
Ok there will be sweeties but at least there will be some fruit to go with it 😁

Hot Chocolate Stop
Playford Village Hall
Friday 31st October 4pm- 5:30pm

Apple bobbing and other games
All welcome
(whether you are Trick or Treating or not)

A picture of a smiling mug of chocolate with marshmallows in it

Hot Chocolate Stop
Playford Village Hall
Friday 31st October 4pm- 5:30pm

Apple bobbing and other games
All welcome,
whether you are
Trick or Treating or not.

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 20h

12 Steps to beat the Algorithm - wise words from Nadia Bolz-Weber
We admitted we were powerless over our algorithms

How will you beat the addiction this week? For me it means once in a while reading a newspaper that raises my hackles.
#DailyMail it is then 🤦🏽‍♂️
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We admitted we were powerless over our algorithms

and our lives had become unmanagable

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 21h

#txt4today ✝️

The Teacher asks,
Where is my guest room?

(Mark 14v14)

A bed in a hotel room

The Teacher asks,
Where is my guest room?
(Mark 14v14)

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 22h

#ToPray✝️

Sometimes the most honest prayers
we can pray are the ones that sound like;

This is hard.
I am tired.
Please help.

(Ashley Morgan Jackson)

Red text on a light grey background

Sometimes the most honest prayers
we can pray are the ones that sound like;

This is hard.
I am tired.
Please help.

(Ashley Morgan Jackson)

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 22h

#ToPonder

Our fate lives within us.
You only have to be brave enough to see it.

(Merida - Brave)

The ginger haired Disney character Merida

Our fate lives within us.
You only have to be brave enough to see it.

(Merida - Brave)

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

11 following and 2 followers 🤷🏽

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

#LastLaugh

Why did the grapes cross the road?

No raisin…..

A bunch of red grapes

Why did the grapes cross the road?

No raisin…..

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

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Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 14 – An Unconverted Pocketbook

There is no truly Christian man who keeps an unconverted pocket-book.

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

#txt4today✝️

I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.
(Mark 14v9)

Remembering the ‘No-Name Christians’,
mostly Black, mostly Women, and their selflessness

Cartoon of three women with blank faces and different coloured wearing brightly coloured tops

I tell you, wherever the good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.
(Mark 14v9)

Remembering the ‘No-Name Christians’,
mostly Black, mostly Women, and their selflessness

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

#ToPray✝️
If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe I know nothing of it for it was not shown
But this was shown: in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love
Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you
Everything passes away except God

A purple crocus on a purple background

If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it,
for it was not shown to me.
But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything passes away except God.

(Julian of Norwich - 1342-1416)

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

#ToPonder

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

(Frank Herbert - Dune)

A tear drop on a blue background

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain.
From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

(Frank Herbert - Dune)

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College of the Resurrection @cor-mirfield.bsky.social · 1d

Job klaxon! 🚨🚨🚨

We’re looking for an Academic and Student Records Administrator! This part time role is a really important one.

Link to find out more:
college.mirfield.org.uk/college-of-t...

Employment Opportunities - College Of The Resurrection

Current Vacancies: 1. College Academic and Student Records Administrator The [...]

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

I presume ‘fatuous pauper’ is now ‘feckless poor’

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Churches Together in Britain and Ireland @ctbi.bsky.social · 1d

Explore the upcoming and recent work of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) in our Autumn 2025 magazine, including:

- Midpoint reflections on CTBI’s Strategic Plan
- Reflection on Nicaea 1700
- Look at Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026

ctbi.org.uk/publications...

CTBI Magazine Autumn 2025 Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Cover image shows shepherd Abu Okab tending to his sheep in the Jordan Valley on the West Bank. Ecumenical Accompaniers from the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme accompany shepherds, a presence known to have a mitigating effect on confrontations between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. EAs’ presence also helps Palestinians access lands they otherwise might not have dared to continue to cultivate. In the West Bank’s Area C, any land that isn’t cultivated for a period of three years becomes property of the state, the shepherds explain, so accessing their lands regularly is vital for the communities and their herds. © Albin Hillert/WCC

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 2d

Just a few more beads. Bless the day I walked into the shop at Marianhill Convent outside Pietermaritzburg and saw that they sold the beads and findings for making rosaries.
If you’d like to find out more here is a very good starting place
rosary-making.com

A rosary of silver open metalwork beads with the Good Shepherd cross used by Pope Francis

A rosary of Multi-coloured striped beads with a gold and black gemstone cross

A rosary of green breads with a silver crucifix and a green enamel background

Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him @suffolkvicar.bsky.social · 2d

#LastLaugh

Why couldn’t the ship's crew play poker?

Because the Captain was standing on the Deck...

The Nine of Clubs playing card with a picture of a French sailor

Why couldn’t the ship's crew play poker?

Because the Captain was standing on the Deck...