Richard Peers
@poetryasprayer
Followers
1,161
Following
1,296
Media
245
Statuses
5,381
Retired Dean of Llandaff Cathedral, former Headteacher, Dir of Education. Poetry, contemplation, gardens. Hon Canon of St Asaph, living in rural France.
Joined March 2024
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
التعاون
• 711597 Tweets
Durk
• 182582 Tweets
Washington Post
• 165290 Tweets
Virginia
• 163168 Tweets
Hillary
• 150287 Tweets
Tommy Robinson
• 74193 Tweets
Bezos
• 69195 Tweets
LA Times
• 69143 Tweets
#النصر_الخلود
• 63660 Tweets
WaPo
• 53380 Tweets
Boulos
• 51288 Tweets
#史上初金車確定無料ガチャ
• 38112 Tweets
Chicó
• 37285 Tweets
Marçal
• 36468 Tweets
Democracy Dies in Darkness
• 32090 Tweets
Edwin Santos
• 27016 Tweets
Pato
• 24257 Tweets
レジェンド車両
• 22477 Tweets
全員最大金枠アイテム5つ
• 22442 Tweets
KirliSepeti DevamEtsin
• 21375 Tweets
#الاهلي_الاخدود
• 20236 Tweets
Skullduggery
• 20050 Tweets
Tether
• 17593 Tweets
بن زكري
• 16742 Tweets
Spider-Man 4
• 14921 Tweets
Leicester
• 14096 Tweets
تاليسكا
• 11270 Tweets
Albon
• 10949 Tweets
In the last 24 hours two priests of the CofE have expressed surprise that I can’t accept invitations to preach, because I’m married to someone of the same sex.
It is so important that we all recognise the immoral legal protections that the CofE has, and that we challenge them.
22
36
353
It’s 30 years but every time I see a woman ordained as priest, every time I celebrate Mass and pray for ‘our bishop’ who is a woman, I feel the thrill of justice done.
There’s so much work to be done but I am so glad to be an Anglican.
10
11
337
On this Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, I prayed the Rosary with the intention that all Anglican priests may be made welcome to celebrate Mass in that holy place.
13
4
148
A threat to the Church of England.
Marriage is so dangerous.
13
7
143
Never in the history of the church has growth and evangelism been achieved by spending money.
All the money being spent on projects should be spent on parish priests in parishes. Then we would see the church at its best.
8
9
91
A notice in a church today.
A useful resource for children and adults.
2
11
84
Happy 60th birthday to the most beautiful person I know.
39 years of marriage and looking forward to the rest.
4
2
83
Whatever one thinks of Robert’s post this is a power play by Bishop Rachel. As such it is deeply unpleasant and inappropriate.
Until the bishops hear the anger that so many feel, and act on it there is no hope.
‘No further comment’ is the ultimate passive aggression. Stop it now.
Deeply unpleasant and inappropriate post. No further comment.
38
1
49
3
4
68
Post-trauma it’s important to remember who you are.
I have these two photos of myself c 1970 and c1990 on my prayer desk at the moment.
Kicking leaves and orange trousers. I’ll take that.
9
2
67
Teilo has decided that the table attached to the chair is a special place for him …
2
0
59
The Sodality has a new priest.
Great celebrations with Mother Lucie.
3
2
53
Having worked as a priest in a disestablished church and an established church I now believe that disestablishment is not only inevitable but also good for the church. We have reached the end of this road.
7
3
53
At the end of this week I shall be speaking about the Sacrament of Reconciliation / Confession.
I realise that I have come
to the view that we should not hear the confessions of under 18 year olds. The safeguarding and power issues are just too complex.
13
3
51
A great joy to be with the Sodality today at Munster Square and to speak about the Sacrament of Reconciliation - my first event speaking publicly for quite a long time.
Very blessed by this community of sisters and brothers.
1
2
54
I’ve been sat by the 12th station for daily Mass this week at St Saviour’s, Lewisham and the stations are totally gorgeous.
0
2
45
It would have been rude not to say hello to a near neighbour.
1
0
45
Mother Josie, you are a gift to the church and to the world. This is a beautiful thing. Joining you in spirit today.
Saddened to see from yesterday’s tweet that some people are so angered by joy. For those that are not, please do join us
@cadeirlan
online or in person this morning, as I preside at the Eucharist for the first time -
69
13
662
2
1
43
In a time of farewells looking forward to saying thank you to so many people in Diocese of Llandaff and at Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday.
7
4
42
Buying a couple of new shirts this morning the assistant asks “Why don’t you try black, it would suit you?”
Been there …
4
1
42
“habitual homoerotic sexual activity”
I find this phrase very stimulating.
13
2
41
So good to be with
@Rgt71Robert
in Kilburn this evening.
May Our Lady of Kilburn pray for us.
1
3
43
Sat in the glorious churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley.
Prayers for
@clarehayns
as she and the family prepare for their move here.
3
1
37
The cost of truth telling can be very high. My life has been for ever changed by following proper process. But I continue to be grateful that I know this remarkable and impressive woman.
Doing the right thing is all we can do.
1/3 I've considered carefully whether to say anything publicly on the 2nd anniversary of waiving my anonymity in
@Telegraph
& decided it's maybe the right time to say a little about this strange time and all that it has brought.
7
3
33
3
5
36
As an Anglo-Catholic I fully support the removal of the bishops from the Lords.
This is in accordance with Catholic practice and Canon Law.
It would be better if they graciously and generously withdrew and supported the amendment.
12
1
36
The trouble is what evidence is there that CofE bishops who oppose same sex marriage, allow discrimination against women clergy and run a broken safeguarding system are the right people to provide moral guidance?
"We need the moral guidance of the Lord Bishops more than ever"
43
31
234
5
6
35
I went to an 8am Communion today, the priest, Fr Rob Gilbert, preached a superb, erudite but utterly straightforward sermon. No gimmicks.
There were three of us there.
That’s the Church of England at its very best.
0
0
33
Good signage on the American church, Tottenham Court Road.
2
4
34
Mass for the domestic church and then pre-lunch fizz in plastic flutes.
A day of celebration.
3
0
30
The Sodality is about the joy of being a priest, in the best and worst of times.
It has been my lifeline.
If you are a priest and are interested in what we've been posting today and want to know more, send us a message.
2
2
12
1
2
28
Sorting through memorabilia it turns out that laughter was my greatest contribution to this child’s education (he or she is presumably nearly 40 now!).
1
2
26
In my opinion those who oppose managerialism and
professionalism in the CofE are deeply misled. We need good managers and good professional leaders.
That way we might avoid the car crashes like Blackburn.
Amateurs fail us.
3
3
25
Prayers requested as my retirement is announced:
7
0
24
With immense gratitude to our generous hosts, the first Office sung in the new, temporary abode.
Home for two months.
2
1
24
@BishopJohnInge
The trouble is John, vast swathes of us no longer consider the bishops to have moral authority. For all the reasons you know.
Better ways for a second chamber to be constituted, and better ways for the bishops to be bishops.
6
3
23
Praying for the gift of holiness for all those being ordained at this time. So many good people offering themselves for this intense and wonderful ministry.
0
0
22
I wish I didn’t agree with this. But Fr Robert is right.
The Church of England is an unsafe place.
To be clear, the main reason
@churchofengland
is an abusive culture is because bishops (although they complain that they don’t have actually any power) actually function as monarchs & are completely unaccountable to anyone outside of the closed episcopal coterie.
This was
5
9
49
2
5
21
Fr Simon is such a wonderful witness to liturgical prayer.
Little and often, the Little Hours are such a gift to punctuate the day.
Thank you Father.
3
0
22
Holy Trinity, Headington for the early HC on a glorious day.
The last time I was in this church was to preach at Evensong as an ordinand, some time in 1990.
0
0
21
Sunday Mass at St Stephen’s, Lewisham.
Many old friends.
0
0
20
There are many things to be said about the selling off of the church’s assets. But the last sentence here seems to me very problematic. Powerless love is an important aspect of the crucifixion.
Victorian rectory. By selling them off the church signalled ‘we no longer matter much’. No one read it as some sort of kenotic gesture: ‘we are now more humble’, as liberals fantasised. It has to stop making this sort of mistake. Powerless love is not love at all.
15
6
85
5
1
19
Listening to this and it feels that it was written for me and for exactly where I am at the moment. So grateful to
@clarehayns
for the recommendation.
0
1
20
A great joy to pop into Christ Church today and light a candle at the shrine. A lovely welcome from old friends.
0
0
20
Ok, so one month in Oxford. I’ve bought a few books. But this is quite abstemious in my view.
0
0
19
Terce today in the place we hope will be our parish church by the Autumn.
Beautifully cool I
On a hot day and after the walk to and from Taizé !
0
0
20
Given papal comments I am in awe of Fr Mervyn at Corpus Christi, Headington. He preaches at every Mass, which is right, he mentions all the Scriptures that have been proclaimed, and he does it all in what sounds like about eight sentences. Amazing.
2
0
19
Nobody told me how beautiful St Andrew’s, Headington is. These stained glass windows are glorious …
2
0
19
A beautiful celebration of 40 years of ordained life for Fr Steve Hall at St Mary the Virgin, Lewisham.
So many lovely lovely people in this place.
3
2
18
Packed for the next two months or so.
I think that’s a very moderate balance of books to clothes.
2
0
18
St Mary Magdalen, Duns Tew.
As gorgeous inside as out.
0
1
16
Mass of the Virgin Mary, Queen, offered for all receiving GCSE results and for all Headteachers and teachers. I will never forget the emotional energy of results day.
0
1
17
This is the image that is sustaining me at the moment.
1
1
17
The Blackburn debacle is devastating for the Church of England.
The bishops should resign from the House of Lords en masse.
“He emptied himself.”
This is the gospel imperative.
3
1
17
Candle lit at the shrine of St Alban for all on my intercessions list.
1
0
16
Sold it.
The camper van has gone.
Soon our belongings will fit (they have to) into two suitcases.
(Ah, there is the issue of the books I’ve bought in the last few weeks …)
2
0
16
Given my own experience and the reports from Blackburn it is clear that the Church of England is not a safe space to report safeguarding concerns.
Disestablishment is the only way forward to end a culture of entitlement.
4
1
15
Mass in the camper-van.
With icon of the Taizé Holy Spirit window.
0
0
14
« The affinity between priest and poet thus shines forth in the mysterious and indissoluble sacramental union between the divine Word and our human words, giving rise to a ministry that becomes a service born of listening and compassion »
Pope Francis
0
1
13
Those being ordained, if you get some book tokens this is really worth reading:
0
2
13
@tigerrector
I’m not allowed to preach because I can’t get PTO or a license because of our marriage.
1
1
14
Mass of St Bartholomew offered for all who studied or worked at Chichester Theological College and worshipped in the church of St Bartholomew.
Happy memories and good friends.
0
0
13
Lovely time this weekend as a Great Uncle.
This is what she wrote about me five years ago in Year 5.
3
0
13
This is great news.
Sarah was a brilliant colleague at Christ Church and is a person of true goodness and generosity of heart.
Excellent in every way.
1
1
13
Are photo booth pictures a deliberate form of cruelty?
3
0
13
For anyone that prays the Liturgy of the Hours/Divine Office this is a really very good recent commentary on the psalms.
0
2
12
@ScholarPriest
And, again anecdotally, I am surprised at some of the bishops asking these intrusive questions.
“Weird” doesn’t even get close, as our American friends would say.
2
0
11
“You, oh eternal Trinity, are a deep Sea, into which the deeper I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek.”
Catherine of Siena
0
3
11
This is so wrong. The church is and always has been a culturally diverse place. Multiple rites etc
Concern for ‘diversity’ should not be seen as a priority by the Church. Rather, building up a coherently unified ecclesial society and culture should be seen as a priority.
5
4
72
1
0
11
Three Sodalists.
@sodalityofmary
Lovely evening in the Vicarage with
@carlosindex
@poetryasprayer
& James; Ayla & Geoff & Wilson our
@parishnw6
Ops & Development Manager ♥️♥️♥️
2
2
22
0
3
11
This is the gate of heaven.
In our borrowed house I love this place to pray.
0
0
11
A praying place.
In the cellar again. And just temporary.
A new dedication.
0
0
11
I spent the morning with people in their late nineties and realised that I could have as long to live as the 38 years I have already spent with my beautiful husband.
One of the people has been ordained for 70 years in a couple of weeks.
1
0
11
Now this is interesting, the Latin rite Cathedral in Corfu keeps the Greek rite date for Holy Week and Easter.
1
0
11
I welcome the proposal for a further reform of the Lords. It does not go far enough.
I would also seek the removal of the bishops and some mechanism for the appointment of lay life peers from many faiths.
We know this will happen, do it sooner rather than later.
1
2
11
@RobinWardSSH
@ScholarPriest
@Robin_C_Douglas
One ordinand tells me that he was asked (by his Vocations Adviser) why he’d had only one girlfriend, to which his answer was “Because we want to get married.”
1
1
10
Coffee in a glass and Dalila betrays Samson.
A bracing start to the day.
1
0
9
Lost boys and Fairies.
Wept all through the first episode.
And there are two more!
Wonderful to hear Cymraeg.
3
0
9
A stunning place to pray Terce, and a reminder that liturgical change can move very slowly …
1
0
10
This is a really important point. I was given funding for 7 sessions after the complaints against me
as a whistleblower concluded, which was great, but a far more professional approach is needed throughout the process.
Retired bishops are simply not equipped to deal with this.
Sadly true in my experience. One person I helped was offered enough for 5 sessions of therapy. Their initial therapy lasted 3 years…..& they periodically need to return.
Much SDF money would be better spent on shepherding the flock properly, on decent pastoral care, that we
2
0
4
0
1
9
Having missed one train a great relief to have
#officeonthego
on the way to Cluny.
Helen Vendler and Harold Bloom as companions.
Tomorrow Morning Prayer at Taizé …
0
0
10
