andrew dotchin tssf (he/him)
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Born UK, Baptised Malta, Ordained South Africa, Home in Suffolk. Vicar, Franciscan, General Synod, Chaplain to anything with a badge 🏳️🌈Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️
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My transgendered cousin took his own life because of the hate he encountered from others 😔
The inquest into his death returned an open verdict as no one was directly responsible. Deaths such as his begin with language such as this 😔
'We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman', says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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@freeSPIRIT_5678
@Kaepernick7
I knelt in the stands at Wembley and wept for the 🇺🇸 don’t let the dream of freedom die
#BlackLivesMatter
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Never ever thought the day would dawn when
@PrivateEyeNews
would show off their qualifications in Biblical Studies 😂
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@lindsayfickas
Some of my friends who invited me to be with them on the same day as they came to church with their best friend
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Prayers please for a woman deacon friend whose PCC has just voted against having a woman incumbent or presiding at the mass 😔
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To whoever cut down the Pride flag
@FelixParish
overnight we are pleased to let you know that we have another one to replace it and have a message for you - 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
P.S. please don’t make a habit of this as it is a crime and
@SuffolkPolice
may be interested…
@EADT24
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@JamilSmith
@WhiteHouse
...and there was me thinking that
@WhiteHouse
Press Dinner was supposed to be a place were public figures were roasted? Or is that how it is for every president except
#45
? All kings need a jester to keep them humble - which may be why
@realDonaldTrump
was awol...
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It's not your Body or your Blood.
It's not your Table
It's not your Church
It's not your Invitation
You are the servant
You are not the Master
You don't assemble the guest list
You were appointed
an ambassador of the Good News
not a bouncer at the door of Club Heaven
(
@RevDaniel
)
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The Fantastic Fifteen members of
@churchofengland
#synod
who are LGBTI 🏳️🌈 and happy to let the church know. God bless you beloved.
💝 Love 🏳️🌈 Wins 💝
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If you’re awake prayers would be appreciated for this old vicar.
Two nights and a day of alternate freezing shivering and over heating sweating has left me wrung out.
Very thankful for a great team
@FelixParish
who continue to take up the slack and give me permission to rest 💝
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Docker: Are you the vicar who came to support us during the strike
Andrew: Yes
Docker: (hands over a bank note) please give this to someone who needs help
💝
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Not looking forward to
@churchofengland
@synod
at all and just had a little weep on realising that it seems as if we sometimes give more protection to sexual abusers and predators than we do to the Rainbow 🏳️🌈 Children of God.
Nkosi Sihawukele 🥲
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All our churchy quirks rolled into one - enjoy 😂😂😂
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This LGBT+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ History Month wouldn’t it be lovely if
@churchofengland
ministers felt they were able to RT
@paulbayes
words?
Please share
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When I was collecting for
@PoppyLegion
a customer shouted at me because of the cord I wear my cross on and said I supported child molesters
I wear this for:
My gay nephew
My transgender cousin
Nik Moore murdered in a Gay Bar
Our Bisexual child
I wear it with pride & hope
🏳️🌈💝🏳️⚧️
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It’s always better to light a light than curse the darkness. Standing with my LGBTQIA+ siblings
@lambethpalace
asking that
@churchofengland
would be bolder in welcoming all God’s children - 🏳️🌈Love is Love 🏳️⚧️
H/T
@Rgt71Robert
for 📸
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Is it ok to light a candle 🕯️ for yourself?
Asking for a friend…
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After 4 weeks of social distancing from each other at home Mrs SuffolkVicar & I decided we would risk a hug tonight.
No osculatory action or skin touch and we were wearing thick dressing gowns.
Now I’m in bits and weeping for those who will not get to hug their love ever again 😢
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Thank you
@CallTheMidwife1
- a Funeral Director friend of mine had to step in to complet a funeral service today when the deceased relative broke down. He remember this meme and used your words 💝
@NAFD_UK
@GreatFunerals
@c_of_e
@CofEFunerals
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Where are we going to ma’am?
Home, Paddington we’re going home.
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Felt under a barrage of penal substation preaching this Good Friday 😔
Yes, I know I’m a wrong ‘un and far from a leader in the righteousness stakes but please don’t tell me the God of Love has to punish the Son to show how loved I am…
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Anglican Twitter - a new strategy for evangelism…
….have a Progress Pride flag at your church
Today two Gay men and a Transgendered woman worshipped with us because they saw the flag and knew they would be welcomed
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@churchofengland
@opentablelgbt
@MosaicCofE
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With thanks to
@LCNM99
If your child hits another child with a stick do you: (Please RT)
Give everybody 🧒 sticks
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Give teachers 👩🏫 sticks
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Take away the stick 🥢
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Breast cancer excised ✅
Chemotherapy infused ✅
Radiotherapy endured ✅
Beautiful smile restored ✅
🎶 🔔 You Gotta Ring That Bell 🔔 🎶
Thank you, thank you, thank you
@ESNEFT
@IpswichHosp
@RHSAssociation
@ClergySupportUK
and all who have helped us on this journey 💝
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Some of
@churchofengland
is Gay
…or Lesbian or Bi or Trans or Questioning or Queer or Inter or Asexual or an ally…
Get over it!
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Praying tweeps.
Whisper a few please for my 85 year old mum who is
@IpswichHosp
tonight to balance out her kidney function, which needs more hydration, and her heart condition, which needs less hydration…
Lovely care in A&E from all the staff especially the duty GP
@ESNEFT
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#OnPriesthood
...all ministry is service.
Being a deacon is not a stepping stone, but a foundation stone.
It is not the apprenticeship year that has to be endured before the real thing (priesthood) starts.
It is the foundation upon which everything else is built.
@CottrellStephen
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This beautiful wonderful person is my heart and my life and loves me far more than I deserve.
She is having surgery for Breast Cancer in
@ESNEFT
Ipswich Hospital early next Thursday.
Please pray for Lesley-Anne Dotchin 🙏🏻🕯💝
@OurCofELike
@monknunCofE
@tssf_europe
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To refuse communion
with God’s queer children
is to refuse Christ’s hospitality
(
@MollyBoot1
)
@nakedpastor
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#synod
Putting faces to issues. There are at least 12 lesbian & gay members of General Synod. Think of them & others as you talk about them
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@daraobriain
@jennyharicot
We run Parish Pantry
@FelixParish
£30 buys
12 tins of hot dogs
12 tins of macaroni cheese
12 tins of baked beans
12 tins of spaghetti hoops
and still have some change.
I wonder if those putting these bags together have heard of
@Morrisons
?
Who also give us free bread & veg 👍🏾
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#OnPriesthood
More than anything else, we must be a Church that loves. Love is itself the medicine of the gospel, and the summing up of all that God is, and all that God is doing in Christ...
if we fail to love, then we are failing the gospel itself.
@CottrellStephen
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Sleep tight mum - see you in the morning 💝
Thank you Lisa at Pretty Little Flowers 💐 for two arrangements overflowing with memories 💝
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Such a privilege to welcome Dawn and Debra to
@FelixParish
today to bless their wedding rings at St John’s Church.
God bless you ladies 👰🏻 👰🏻
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Would like to know if anyone could print this Tee for me to wear
@churchofengland
@synod
the weekend after next?
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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When I became a Rural Dean I did not expect to spend quite as much time as I do listening to the hurting hearts of my fellow ministers...
If your priest, pastor, or preacher is not already in your daily prayers please add their name to your list.
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The hands of the Almighty
are so often to be found
at the ends of our own arms
(Sr Monica Joan)
@CallTheMidwife1
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The next time someone asks why a faculty is required in a CofE parish show them this….
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Does it really need 1000 days for
@GOVUK
to
#BanConversionTherapy
?
Pse write to your MP and ask for this heinous practice to be finally banned in our nation
It’s time to stop forcing LGBTI 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ people to be who they are not!
RTs very welcome
@OzanneFoundn
@stonewalluk
@BanCTorg
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My coping strategy for non-mask wearing travellers on the Tube?
Before I get off I announce loudly that I have taken 20 funerals for people with Covid and don’t want to take anymore. I then thank everyone who is wearing a mask 😷
@TfL
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Was asked by a distraught woman at the church door if she could light a candle 🕯️
Her sister-in-law had died and family had decided to have ‘one of those take the body away thingys’…
She lit two candles one for her sister and one for herself
We leave grief untended at our peril
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@giles_fraser
One reason why I have a box which contains the ‘Thank You’ notes & letters which are far far more numerous than those from ‘Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells’
On the hard days I flick through the box & remind myself that I am loved & capable of loving deeds
As are you beloved brother
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When the local High School Chaplain messages you to let you know that the way their students distinguish your church from the other 20 churches in Felixstowe is by calling St John’s ‘The Pride Church’… 💝
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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So much love for this man and all the
@BBCWorld
team in
#Ukraine
.
God bless you
@CliveMyrieBBC
and
@bbclysedoucet
may the angels watch over you this night 💝
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Went to
@Morrisons
to collect the customer donation bags for
@FelixParish
Pantry and am chased by a dad & his 2 young daughters who insist I go & get a trolley load of tins
£173.09 of love looks like this 💝🥹💝
I’m using the till slip as a Bible bookmark
Angels walk amongst us
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#synod
is prorogued so time for pintage in a place that has always made me welcome even though
@churchofengland
has not always welcomed everyone who comes here
At least tonight I can smile a little more and say to any who ask that you are loved, you are welcome 🏳️🌈
@admiral_duncan
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Rise in Glory mum.
We will make sure you get back to Faslane to be with Dad again
#Resurgam
Tx u
@ESNEFT
and
@ESNEFTChaplains
for all your loving care and kindness 💝
@RoyalNavy
@RNSubMuseum
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Today
@churchofengland
@synod
we have Farewells. First order of business is to say goodbye to a Synod Member who has only ever been a servant during his time with us. Thank you
@jarvisguidedog
for all the hugs and for looking after your Dad
@DisabilityJ
@OurCofELike
@ChurchTimes
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All who go to sea face danger but it is sad that the fate of five very wealthy people makes headline news & calls for sympathy but hundreds who drown fleeing persecution & hunger are ignored & condemned 😔
‘Hear us when we cry to Thee for those in peril on the sea!’
@RNLI
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Ok
@churchofengland
@synod
November sessions are rare and only happen when we need to love and list to each other a little more closely. So my offering this time around is pure and unadulterated love 💝hearts
After all to get it right all we really need is ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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Home from
@synod
and now soaking my aching body and sore heart in a bath 🛁
Why oh why church do we have to be so cruel and uncaring to each other?
Yes, a motion was passed and we continue to move forward but today everyone was a loser as we did not love each other enough
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St Mungo of the Barras in Glasgow - worth a pilgrimage
H/T Adele Chaplin
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We can’t change the church’s teaching
on marriage because of our Tradition!
Except when it comes to...
Clergy Celibacy
Slavery
Polygamy
Cremation
Contraception
Abortion
Suicide
Marriage after Divorce
Ordination of Women....
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I’m beginning to know a little how the Syro-Phoenician woman felt…
One day
@churchofengland
will learn that all children are God’s children and we dare not treat any as if they were dogs😔
In the meantime
@FelixParish
will fly the Pride flags 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 and be Open to God Open to All
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Darlings, I’ve found the perfect footwear for the commissioning of Overseers at All Souls, Langham Place.
May need to go on a crash diet
@synod
to fit into them through 😂
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Thank you
@davewalker
for drawing what my heart aches…. 😔
Today, even if you disagree with them, please say a prayer for your vicar
@CofEsuffolk
@cartoonchurch
@ChurchTimes
@TheSheldonHub
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I’m so sorry
@synod
siblings. Once again I find the grandeur of a service in the Minster when set against the way we have betrayed the gospel of God’s generous love makes me weep. I’m leaving to sit quietly in a redundant church & pray that we may learn to love as Christ loved🥺
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Church Twitter.
Working on a more helpful and enabling stage direction than ‘If you are able to please stand’ and thinking of adding this to service sheets.
Edits and (gentle) challenges as to wording are very welcome
@Ord_Off
@DisabilityJ
@MosaicCofE
@inclusivechurch
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How do you make a vicar cry?
When the person on the till at the supermarket gets her own card out to pay for the six trays of spaghetti you bought for the Parish Pantry.
I am in bits 😢
happy but in bits 💝
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I’m up and not so fuzzy - thank you for everyone who sent prayers of support and care.
It feels like kidney stone central again so will check with the GP.
Too sore to be miffed that they are no longer open on Saturdays 😔
Today the dressing gown is going to earn its keep.
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A dear friend of mine who struggles with mobility and other issues has twice recently been approached by strangers who want to pray for his healing.
This may be well meant but it is wrong - stop it
Jesus never healed anyone who did not seek healing
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Church done for the day so anniversary drinkie poos - after 39 years I think she worth a half of shandy 🍻💝
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My friend and his partner celebrate 25 years of loving togetherness today... and still the church proclaims them to be anathema 🤔
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Love 💝 Hearts now on their way around the
#synod
chamber. Please pick up a packet and take with you into group work as we aim to work out what it means to Live in Love and Faith
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Part One of Catherine and Jane’s special day. Longing for the day when
@churchofengland
is able to rejoice that ‘love is love’.
Tx u
@FelixstoweTC
and
@suffolkcc
Registrars for hosting the legal necessities.
🏳️🌈Love💝Wins🏳️🌈
@MosaicCofE
@inclusivechurch
@campaign_cofe
@1Body1Faith
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Leap of faith time.
Two lovely young women have just come to book their wedding👰🏻👰🏻for June 2023.
It’s over to you
@churchofengland
as to whether they can have their marriage registered as well as blessed in the church where their parents are buried and family members worship
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My beloved is a domestic careworker
Today she started at 7.30am had a 90 minute break at 2pm and was home for 45min at 6.30pm and is out until after 10pm
She had a little weep for a client they’re beginning to ‘lose’
Pse pray for caregivers and the grief they carry every day 💝
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Please pray for those with Additional Needs (especially Sarah) who have a relative die during these times - it’s hard 😢
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Fes up with all the innovations?
Confused by which prayers are permitted and which aren’t?
Just want normality to return to Sundays?
Fear not! The Diocese of Wenchoster has published a ‘proper’
@churchofengland
seasonal service rota.
(H/T whoever compiled this 😂)
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I thought God wanted to use me to show gay people how to be straight. Instead God used gay people to show me how to be Christian.
~Rachel Held Evans~
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So very good to welcome Sophie and Collette to
@felixparish
for the blessing of their wedding 💍💍rings
15 years of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Now time for 🥂 and Karaoke 🎤 in the vicarage garden 💝
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With the Arch on the way to John Vorster Square daring the police to arrest us for being in an illegal gathering. Small man, lion’s heart 💝
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Please pray for the family of the person who was to be cremated after the service I have just taken.
The Funeral Director is flooded in and they have had to go ahead and hold the service without the coffin present 😔
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@LawKenwright
@TheGuideLpool
@LivEchonews
@DIBLiv
@SignatureLiving
@itsliverpool
@SigLiverpool
@LpoolChamber
@lpoolcouncil
Hi fella - liverpool is a long way from us in Felixstowe so we can’t make use of your generosity. However thank you so much for caring
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No rosary 📿 this
@synod
but French Knitted friendship bracelets are available for members. Progress is slow so not many to give away but please ask if you want one
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I’ve been on
#synod
for probably far too long and it saddens me to see a decline in numbers attending the Synod Eucharist. What used to be a full Chamber has only one-third present 😔
Members are absent for many good reasons yet we remain one Body of Christ - may we live as one
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How do I feel about the
@synod
papers on Prayers for Love & Faith?
If I had a full
@churchofengland
pension - I am entitled to a half pension & half a state pension - I would send my letter of resignation to
@Martin_Seeley
tomorrow 🥺
@Bishop_Dunwich
@JustinWelby
@CottrellStephen
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Feeling very blessed to celebrate 44 years of marriage with the gift of a whole Millionaire’s Cheesecake and Cliff Richard singing ‘Congratulations’ on the sound system at Sam Moi our favourite
@VisitFelixstowe
restaurant 💝
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This 👇🏾 for all my sisters
Yearly reminder: 'And the women stayed' We hear a lot during Holy Week that everyone abandoned Jesus. No they didn't. The women stayed til the bitter end of the Cross & were also first at the tomb. Male colleague once said he'd always thought as they... 1)
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Every sermon [we] preach must first be preached to [ourselves]
If it doesn’t address the cancer in our soul
if it doesn’t convert us
if it doesn’t challenge us to rise up
and follow in the path of discipleship then it won’t heal convert or challenge anyone else
@CottrellStephen
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Edwina Bockel, beloved mother of my beloved wife Lesley-Anne, was safely gathered into the Everlasting Arms today.
A faithful follower of Jesus even in her frailty she said ‘bless you’ to all who came into her ward at Avondrus Care Home in Vereeniging 🇿🇦
Rise in Glory Mum 💝
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Fifth Supermarket visit of the day buying stock for
@FelixParish
Pantry and I have a serious case of Leaky Eye as the fella in the Q behind me
@Morrisons
puts his hand in his pocket to pay for this trolley load.
Bloke shaped angels walk amongst us 💝
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Started on Bute finished in Felixstowe.
Love the cross on this rosary which has Jesus on one side and one of the woman at Calvary on the other 💝
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Wasn’t called to speak in Cost of Living debate at
#synod
so didn’t manage to tell of the treasure that is the people of St Edmund’s in Felixstowe who have handed over their church to be used by Pushchair Pitstop who have given away over £500 000 of baby & children’s kit so far
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Guess who’s got the ‘All Clear’ to go to
@churchofengland
@synod
😀
Which means that the ‘Sweeties from Suffolk’ tin will be making its way into the Coffee ☕️ Room
@Churchhouseconf
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This is why
@c_of_e
@synod
wants food waste to be used to help - please let your MP know that it is easy to change the rules to help
@spelmanc
we are ready to help the government help others - use us
@FareShareUK
Saw a parishioner just out of hospital. There he talked to a staff nurse with fifteen years experience, a single mum of two, full time on nights, who depends on food banks to feed her family. FOOD BANKS.
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So healing to be
@TheDunkySoho
to remember 25 years since Nik, Andrea & John were murdered
Tx u
@LdnGMC
for reminding us us to sing our sing loud
Tx u
@Palomafaith
for giving us an anthem to sing
Can we sing this
@onfiremission
tomoz please🙏🏾
#NeverSurrender
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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A candle
@stedscath
on the day of the Chrism Mass for all my beloved fellow clergy who will not be renewing their vows this year.
Wherever and however you find yourself remember ‘the gift and calling of God is irrevocable’ and you are loved 💝
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Of all the tasks I’m asked to do as a vicar taking communion to those in residential homes is one of the most precious.
I never tire of hearing the same stories again and again or of having the service ‘hijacked’ by someone telling their memories.
A privilege to be here 💝
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Apparently because I tweeted that ‘Transgender Women are Women’ I am now part of the self-same patriarchy that I have spent the last 45 years of my life smashing 😲
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Lovely happy well distanced group of people gathering to remind is that
#BlackLivesMatter
Thank you Felixstowe 💝✊🏾
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