Mark Oakley
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Poetry - Human Rights - a Questioning faith. Dean of Southwark.
Southwark, England.
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Reached my seat at Evensong to find… ‘He has put down the mighty from their seats’. I found another seat and left him to it.
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My dear grandmother, who so generously brought me up as a child, is 99 today
#birthdaygirl
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It is announced today that I have been appointed Dean of Southwark. To be entrusted with this ministry makes my heart very grateful and a little daunted.
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My amazing grandmother is 100 in a few days time… this was taken today
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In these dark days, I paid a visit of peace and friendship to the Old Kent Road Mosque this afternoon. The President graciously invited me to address the congregation. I assured them of the Cathedral’s friendship and solidarity, standing against hate.
@OKR_Mosque
@FaithMattersUK
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Phew! Just passed my PhD viva. Thanks so much to my brilliant supervisors Profs Helen Wilcox and Tony Brown.
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Not sure any more if I’m working from home or living at work
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My grandmother. 100 years old. Dominoes and sherry. Amazing.
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Hoping church leaders will take up the Tutu Challenge this coming year and stand up unapologetically, but with grace and humour, for freedom, justice, rights of minorities and the overlooked: “Neutrality is taking the side of the oppressor”
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Announced today that I’m leaving St Paul’s. I’m to be the Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge. Very grateful for my time at the cathedral and hoping i contributed something in my 8 years. Looking forward to a new ministry with gratitude.
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A poem as you prepare to take the Christmas tree down. It’s by James Merrill, one of his last before his death. It’s in the tree’s voice.
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More T, vicar?
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Happy 102nd birthday to my grandma. She sacrificed so much to bring me up as a child. A remarkable person.
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I’m off to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday - she brought me up as a child. I never thought I’d be buying a card like this.. but today she is indeed 102.
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The excitement of giving a plenary lecture at a conference is somewhat paused for a while when you see Rowan Williams in the audience…
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It isn’t enough to keep using the word ‘dignity’ and not translate it into reality. Not to invite people, not to bless their love and commitment, not to ordain them as bishops, not to allow them to marry and minister - this just makes them feel less than equal
#LambethConference
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Those of us who didn’t have a mother to bring us up often find “Mothering Sunday” easier than “Mother’s Day”, as we give our thanks for those who stepped in on the way. Just saying...
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Very honoured to be awarded
@MRamseyPrize
today. Thank you to
@JustinWelby
and the judges and to all the other wonderful nominees. Thank you
#gb19
too for a great festival.
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I’m very honoured that Kings College London has conferred a Fellowship of the university on me for “exceptional service and achievement”. Gosh. I’m speechless. Thank you KCL.
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Can we have a statement that C of E doesn’t think the language used by the Abp of Nigeria is acceptable? ‘The deadly ‘virus’ of homosexuality has infiltrated...This is likened to a Yeast that should be urgently and radically expunged and excised lest it affects the whole dough’
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It’s been a hard day
@Southwarkcathed
We can’t believe we’ve lost Ian. Talented, fun, thoughtful, generous. A bon vivant. Passionate for music, a lover of Southwark. Our hearts are full for his family. May he rest in ‘one equal music’. Thank you, Ian.
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Devastated at the news of Anna Matthew’s death. She was gifted, fun, wise, and a true priest in her heart. I treasure the many times we sat and talked things through. May she rest in love.
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Listening to Miroslav Volf at the launch of
@JustinWelby
‘s new book. He says we should set aside an hour every day, a day every week and a week every year to refrain from striving and focus on the gift and good that is already ours. Such sabbath times make us human again.
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Thank you so much for your kind wishes, prayers and wisdom today. It all helped. First results are looking good. The staff at
@RoyalPapworth
have been brilliant. I see the gift of life so clearly today.
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The world is a poorer place for losing Desmond Tutu. Faith, courage, resilience, fun and laughter, all made him make the connections between love of neighbour and justice for all. May he rest in the Love he helped us to understand.
#DesmondTutu
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I once got lost at night in London Zoo with Charles Kennedy, leaving a recep'n. I can still see him laughing by the aardvarks. RIP
@LibDems
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I am very sad to hear of the death of Bishop Alan Wilson. He was a dear friend, courageous, full of integrity, humanity, and intelligence. The Church needs such as him. May he rest in love.
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For the Home Secretary to imply that being gay in parts of our world does not include a well founded fear of persecution is disgraceful and an insult to the many who have lost their lives or livelihoods for being who they are.
@stonewalluk
@hrw
@AmnestyUK_LGBTI
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Very moved tonight at an Evensong to say goodbye. Will miss many friends.
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Thank you so much to all those of you who wrote such kind and generous things yesterday. I am more grateful than you’ll know. And now, a few days in Vienna to rest and read. Thank you, again.
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Priested 28 years ago. ‘I greet Him the days I meet Him, and bless when I understand”
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I preside at the Eucharist
@StPaulsLondon
for the last time today. Lots of emotions. So Edwin Muir’s The Way is today’s
#APoemADay
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Today I tried to voice something of my love and gratitude for Anna Matthews at
@StBenetsCam
May she rest in peace
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Today I celebrate 25 years of priesthood. I’m deeply grateful. Hopkins was on my ordination card: ‘I greet Him the days I meet Him, and bless when I understand’.
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Was ambling around Sydney thinking about how to prepare for Holy Week, when I suddenly came across this…
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Some thoughts from me for today’s London Pride:
London Pride 2024 | A Statement from the Dean - Southwark Cathedral
cathedral.southwark.anglican.org
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Just been informed that I have been elected a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. I am very honoured and grateful.
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I’ve been down with Covid but I think I’m through the worst now. I think endlessly of those who suffer at the moment. On this Epiphany I’m very aware of gifts, including my life. So RS Thomas’s Gift feels right...
#APoemADay
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Bonhoeffer was executed 75 years ago today. “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself”
#Bonhoeffer
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I’m really honoured that the University of Chester is to confer an honorary degree of Doctor of Education on me. I’m also delighted to learn I’ll be receiving it from the Chancellor - the inimitable Gyles Brandreth.
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I was ordained on this day 27 years ago. Can’t quite believe it nor all that the years have contained. Waiting by RS Thomas is the poem for the day
#APoemADay
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Very honoured to be appointed Canon Theologian at Wakefield Cathedral in the diocese ofLeeds. It is an honorary position and means I’m still at
@stjohnscam
!
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Remembering the murdered of Orlando here on St Paul's Cathedral altar
@StPaulsLondon
@MatthewBarzun
@ChurchTimes
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On my birthday I’ve pulled out this picture of me writing my first sermon.
#thankfulfortheyears
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St John the Divine cathedral, New York, is preparing its nave to be a 400 bed hospital
#coronavirus
@StJohnDivineNYC
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‘A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest’
@nybooks
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I’ve just spent a wonderful morning interviewing Judi Dench. She’s 87 and as playful as ever.
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Preparing to finally leave St John’s college, Cambridge. It’s been a wonderful time and I shall miss many friends, but I’m lucky to have so many happy memories. Thank you
@stjohnscam
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Thinking today of all those affected by the cruel appalling attack in Clapham. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in this world, but has not solved one yet”. Maya Angelou
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The Dawning by George Herbert
#APoemADay
#Easter
A very happy Easter to followers and friends - and, thank you
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The Ivor Gurney and Gerald Finzi windows
@GlosCathedral
with references to the Gurney poems, Traherne, and Hardy. Wonderful. “Out of my sorrow have I made these songs”
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Χριστός ἀνέστη! Wishing you all a very happy and peace filled Easter. The Dawning by George Herbert:
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Today I was asked to bless the 2nd Flush Darjeeling that has arrived
@boroughmarket
- a first for me. Water and leaves. So simple. So comforting.
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Well, I’m 55 today. Here I am writing my first sermon. Started the day with Edwin Muir’s The Way:
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So lovely to be at RS Thomas’s church in Aberdaron and to be preaching here tmw as part of the RST Festival
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Hanged by the Nazis on this day, 1945. A remarkable man.
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Such a fun and lovely evening with my old friend Bishop Gene Robinson. The 20th anniversary of his consecration approaches in a few weeks. My inner strength, such as it is, owes him deep gratitude.
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Happy new year to you. A little Edwin Muir poem called The Way to get us through.
#NewYear2022
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Very honoured to receive an honorary Doctorate of Education by Chester university today… thank you
@uochester
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St Bernard’s advice to a young abbot: ‘Notice everything; keep silent most of the time; correct a few things and cherish the brethren’.
#ministry
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I’m very honoured to be asked by the Poet Laureate to be one of the three judges of next year’s Ted Hughes Award
@PoetrySociety
Lots of new poems to read!
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After a wonderful catch-up lunch with
@RevRichardColes
he gave me a gift I will treasure: a copy of RS Thomas’ selection of Herbert inscribed to his son Gwydion. Thank you, Richard.
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Looking forward to presiding and preaching at my first Christmas morning
@Southwarkcathed
- 9am and 11am - wishing you a very happy and peaceful Christmas
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A very happy Easter from Australia to all my friends and followers. Some George Herbert for the day:
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For One Who Is Exhausted, A Blessing by John O’Donohue
#APoemADay
with thanks to
@_AlexandraLil
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“Our theology would improve if we thought more of the Church being given to the Spirit than of the Spirit being given to the Church….”
John V. Taylor
#Pentecost
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Because I’m a Shropshire lad and because the blossom is bursting outside my window, here is some Housman
#APoemADay
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George Herbert in my mind this morning: Thou that hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, a grateful heart
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