Operation Epic Fury/Revelation 4-5 Remixed YouTube video by Rev’d Jon Swales

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Operation Epic Fury// Revelation 4–5, It was Easter Sunday.Dawn had only just begunto lift itself over the city.Somewherelilies were being carriedinto church.Somewherea priest was lifting breadwith tired hands.Somewheresomeone who had sle...

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Easter Sunday: The Wild Messiah Walks Among the Wounded YouTube video by Rev’d Jon Swales

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Sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam, Sanctorum Communionem (I believe in the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints) The care home smellsof polishand overcooked vegetables.Photographs line the walls—faces once fierce,now softened by forgetting.A woman says hello.Neither of us knows her name,but the God of the covena...

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I would like
clean lines.
Clear edges.
A Church that looks
more like me.

But catholicity
refuses that comfort.

East of Eden: Advent in Newcastle He leaves the mission hallat Bykerat 6pm.Tough one tonight.Found out Jamie had died.Only six months agohe was baptised,got clean,got saved,relapsed—tragic.Geordie windslicing sideways—sharp as truth.H...

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East of Eden: Advent in Newcastle He leaves the mission hallat Bykerat 6pm.Tough one tonight.Found out Jamie had died.Only six months agohe was baptised,got clean,got saved,relapsed—tragic.Geordie windslicing sideways—sharp as truth.H...

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East of Eden: Advent in Hull - Lament & Hope: Prayers & Teaching for Justice and Peace Words Rev'd Jon Swales https://www.cruciformjustice.com

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East of Eden: Advent in Newcastle - Lament & Hope: Prayers & Teaching for Justice and Peace Words: Rev'd Jon Swales

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Descendit ad Inferos (He descended into hell) Night deepens.The candle burns low.I reach the next line of the Creed:He descended into hellAnd I pause.The words fall like a stone into silence.Yesterday he suffered.Today he sleeps.The world holds i...

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Qui Conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, Natus ex Maria Virgine (Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary) Qui Conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, Natus ex Maria Virgine (Conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary)The afternoon arrives,The air tastes of rain.I reach the next line:Conceived by the H...

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Et in Iesum Christum (And in Jesus Christ) Rain taps against the window.A kettle hums.Somewhere the news mutters of conflict, climateand cost.I reach the next line:And in Jesus Christ.The room grows still.Not an idea now,but a man.A man with c...

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Creatorem Caeli et Terrae (Creator of Heaven and Earth) The recycling lorry grinds past.Children head to work and school.Then stillness returns.After prayer, I step outside.The dawn leans in,dew on grass,a robin’s sermon,breath rising like incense.Creator ...

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Patrem Omnipotentem (Father Almighty) A siren fades in the distance.Tea cools by the windowsill.I reach the next line—I believe in God, the Father Almighty.The words familiar,but this morning they hesitate on my tongue.Almighty.A word I’v...

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Credo (I Believe) Morning prayer.The chapel hush before the day begins.Candle flickers,breath misting in the half-light.The words come again—I believe.I stop.How many times have I said them?How many times have I meant ...

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Quiet Revival: Fruits They say there is a quiet revival.Praise God for it.Students and seekers return.The disenchanted bow the knee.Secularism loses its grip.Souls, stubborn as ever,remember how to pray.Churches alive with...

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East of Eden: Gateshead The Angel of the Northrusted, enormous,stands watch over broken estates.Not protection.A witness.Rev Pam walks the cuttowards the youth worker’s flat.Grey drizzle.Bin bags spilling.Shouting from upsta...

The Angel of the North
rusted, enormous,
stands watch over broken estates.
Not protection.
A witness.

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East of Eden: Unite the Kingdon Thomas, parish priest,opens the Bishop’s statement on his screen:“We are deeply concerned to hear of the planned ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march in London this weekend.Though framed as a celebration of free...

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On Sunday he hears both refrains:

“We can’t cope — too many migrants,
our town is overwhelmed.”

And in the same pew:
“Welcome the stranger.
And anyone who disagrees — far right.”
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Of course, feel free to use. Blessings

I saw it—
on the road from Reeth to
Arkengarthdale:
an old petrol pump,
abandoned by time,
leaning like a tired priest
who’d forgotten his prayers.

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The Gospel of the Wild Messiah The Gospel of the Wild MessiahHe did not come robed in safety.He did not come crowned in gold.He came with dust on his sandals,blood in his future,and fire in his bones.Not to keep the peace—but to br...

The Gospel of the Wild Messiah

He did not come robed in safety.
He did not come crowned in gold.
He came with dust on his sandals,
blood in his future,
and fire in his bones.

Not to keep the peace—
but to break it open.

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He’s Seen the Wounds He didn’t leave Leeds for a fresh start.He left because staying meant fear.The flat was chaos —tinfoil graveyard,door kicked in,violence crouched in every corner.Even the bat he kept by the door got n...

He didn’t leave Leeds for a fresh start.
He left because staying meant fear.
The flat was chaos —
tinfoil graveyard,
door kicked in,
violence crouched in every corner.
Even the bat he kept by the door got nicked.
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Billy He’d seen thingsno soul should ever see,heard thingsthat still rattle in his dreams—not just bombs in Belfast,but shrapnel lodged inside his heart,twisted fragments of hurtno surgeon could remove.He t...

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A Scream from the Hill: Glastonbury & Gaza From Glastonburya scream broke through—'death, death to the IDF'—words,not nice,should have been silenced,but words.Should the police investigate?Maybe.Words can stir.But the IDF isn’t a person—it’s a...

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This is not
the fog of war.
It is the fire of injustice.
And a silence
that screams
complicity.

Lord have mercy,
Blessed are the Peacemakers

- Rev’d Jon Swales

Do we stand with Hamas?
No.
With Hezbollah?
No.

We stand
with the mothers,
the buried,
the broken,
the breathless.
We stand against hostage taking
and those kept without trial.
We stand
against slaughter,
whatever flag it flies.

No Gaza.
No grief.

We say this clearly:
Not all Jews are Israelis.
Not all Israelis
support the killing.
To confuse Jewishness
with this war machine
is antisemitic.
Full stop.

And we—
we fixate on chants,
argue intent,
debate decency
while Gaza dies.
The UK sells arms.
Ministers nod.
Red carpet deals,
stained.

And the feed—
Glastonbury,
Glastonbury,
Glastonbury.

Look—
sniper's bullets
shatter spines.
Bombs fall
on bakeries,
hospitals,
cradles.
Children die
without warning.
Or with it.
Either way—
they die.

From Glastonbury
a scream broke through—
'death, death to the IDF'—
words,
not nice,
should have been silenced,
but words.

Should the police investigate?
Maybe.
Words can stir.
But the IDF isn’t a person—
it’s a war machine
breaking international law
like glass
under boot.