We recently rediscovered these beautiful cards which were hand-painted by Enid Chadwick. The Shrine church is beautifully decorated with lots of Enid’s work and we are also blessed to have these wonderful cards, the detail in each one is quite stunning.

Fr. Hans Boersma: “While in some way believers today may be separated from the Old Testament by several millennia, they are also actually present in the hidden dimension of [it]. If Christ is genuinely present in the Old Testament, then believers—who are ‘in Christ’—are as well.”

“The same Collect … shall serve for every day after unto the Epiphany.”

Bishop Chandler Jones: "Our liturgical heritage as Catholics of the Anglican Rite is to be located in the Missal, with its panoply of ancient liturgical texts from the early Western Church." More here from Bishop Chandler Holder Jones 👇 substack.com/home/post/p-18…

'We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.' Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965

Wallace Stevens’s (mis)reading of Simone Weil: “She says that decreation is making pass from the created to the uncreated, but that destruction is making pass from the created to nothingness. Modern reality is a reality of decreation, in which our revelations are not the

The Adoration of the Magi by #WilliamBlake. Happy #Epiphany! A thought about the image. There are two sources of light: the star and the child. Only, that's really one. Mirrored by the magi, the star offers its light to the one source, the uncreated light born of Mary. #Theophany

I am holding in my hands what is (I believe) the first ever Greek-English edition of Origen's Contra Celsum. This massive 750-pager will go to print soon! Excellent editorial work, Lachlan Hodgson

Learn even from human things to weigh carefully what is divine. -St. Ambrose

Now may Mary's son, who came So long ago to love us, Lead us all with hearts aflame Unto the joys above us.

“The child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God.” — Pope Pius XII

“Stevens tries to rewrite Marvell’s garden, and … Milton’s. The memory of Satan in at Eve’s ear mingles with the origin of the word ‘earwig,’ an insect said to creep in at the ear, figuratively a parasite or flatterer. ‘For who can care at the wigs despoiling the Satan ear?’”

The Conversion of Saint Paul by #WilliamBlake - showing the inner drama of arguably one of the most consequential moments in western history, when on the outside, little to nothing might apparently have happened at all. #conversionofstpaul

For the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, here is Gerard Manley Hopkins’s translation of his “Adoro Te Devote”: “Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,
 Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
 See, Lord, at Thy service low lies here a heart
 Lost, all lost in

Candlemas in the City

Anglicanism as a modest Rule of Life. An historic Rule of Life asked for by the 1954 Church Assembly and produced by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in response.

A few altar shots from this morning’s Sung Eucharist on the First Sunday of Lent The Prayer Book Society The Bishop of Fulham

Almost too on the nose with my Anglicanmaxxing today as I said morning prayer at Little Gidding

“But if she speaks her own language well, that of the Scriptures and liturgy, of her past and present fathers, mothers, poets, and saints, she will be original and fresh, ready to express ancient truths in new ways, standing a chance, as she has done before, of orienting

Pope Leo XIV warns against thinking we can set aside God, repeating a line from G.K. Chesterton: "Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural." vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…