Slab with Byzantine Imperial Emblem from the walls of Genoese Galata (c. 1304-1316) now at Istanbul Archaeological Museums
Four betas: βασιλεὺς βασιλέων, βασιλεύων βασιλευόντων
"King of Kings, Ruling over Rulers"
An old time-y illustration of a Primrose.
Today is Primidi the 1st of Germinal in the year 234.
Germinal is the month of sprouting.
Today we celebrate primrose. #JacobinDay
More information on primrose
Assertion is not argumentation! I’m pointing out that you’re making unsupported statements which are part of a discriminatory discourse and you’re not responding to the point but with assertions about the way I’m arguing. This could be a conversation between peers if you want?
Why fallacious? They’re predicated on your clerical state. I’d suggest care that is predicated on a class or state is less efficacious than that offered to an individual. It is also less likely to bring the Church into disrepute as a sexiest, misogynist, patriarchal entity.
Are you a young, #ecumenically curious Christian? Or do you know someone who is?
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Why are you giving couples advice? You’re vowed to celibacy and that hopefully includes sexual abstinence. What do you know about how sex works in a relationship?
No his child but theirs, not a child -possibly a foetus, not his body/physical/mental health, career. Not our issue but theirs and theirs alone. Any interference from us becomes about power over someone else. In this case the woman.
@rachidadati.bsky.social votre ministère assure le secrétariat de la Commission paritaire des publications de presse > ses décisions ne sont pas respectées ! Qu'entendez-vous faire ?
Mgr Paul Mason, RC bishop to the Forces, presiding and preached in French.
Am at Saint Louis des invalides for a Mass for Peace.
The UK was robbed by self-serving conmen.
Restore #FoM now
It is 5 minutes until 8pm. The church bells at Église Saint-Denys du Saint-Sacrement are ringing into the dark night sky as the winds howl through the streets and rattle our windows. This night, a child will be born in a stable. New peace has come. Love will guide those who choose to follow Him.
Every Christmas season I post the wonderful Christmas meditation by the great theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/int...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday?
Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
People walking along a busy, brightly lit city shopping street at night. The text reads: "I tell you solemnly, nowhere…have I found faith like this.”
#Advent, #AdventWeek1, #Attentive, #Benedictine, #Centurion, #challenge, #faith, #gospel, #Hope, #kingdom, #KingdomValues, #lectiodivina, #love, #messiah, #newlife, #Recognition, #trust Recognising Christ, new Advent blog post on turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/?...
People walking along a busy, brightly lit city shopping street at night. The text reads: "I tell you solemnly, nowhere…have I found faith like this.”
An Advent 🧵 1/6 We often go through life so caught up with our own affairs that we miss the important signs of Christ’s kingdom that are all around us. Advent invites us to move away from that way of being. It’s a time to start paying attention again, to notice what is going on around us.
Buy them from the excellent chbookshop.hymnsam.co.uk and they’re come with a pink one for Gaudete Sunday too !
With Advent approaching, there is something Meister Eckhart would like you to know.
(taken from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart')
We invite you to join us in our daily diocesan prayers.
Pray for the chaplaincies in
Menton: May the Lord's healing power continue to bring peace and hope.
Nice: May the Lord bring peace to His world through this community
UK immigration consultation. Designed terribly and probably intentionally to make it difficult to disagree, but worth doing if you do.
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
“Patientia: when Christians make this virtue visible and active, they demonstrate the character of God to the world. In order to encourage embodied witness, witness that is true to God and true to the Christian tradition,”
A photo of Gustavo Gutiérrez To know God is to work for justice There is no other path to reach God (Gustavo Gutiérrez)
#ToPray ✝️
To know God is to work for justice
There is no other path to reach God
(Gustavo Gutiérrez)
Brexit has made the UK permanently poorer. And people are voting for Farage? 🤷♂️
White text on a black background My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life. (Pope Francis)
#ToPray✝️
My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.
(Pope Francis)
Weird how time works isn’t it? In some US states a pregnant 11 year-old isn’t allowed an abortion because they need to deal with the “adult” consequences of getting pregnant, but 35 year-old neo-Nazis in the govt group chat are “boys” doing “things young boys do”
