Singer and Conductor. Music Administrator @StDavidsCath. Former student @RoyalHolloway, choral scholar @RoyalHollChoir, @StBartholomews 🏴🏳️🌈
Haverfordwest, Wales
Joined April 2015
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The Book of Common Prayer.
364 years of setting hearts on fire with God's love.
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Cliveden House burnt down in 1849. The architect behind Parliament rebuilt it in two years.
Now, Parliament has spent over a decade just planning its own repairs.
What happened to the country that built things? 👇
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“The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should duly use them.” - The Book of Common Prayer.
We're delighted to welcome the congregation and ministry team of St Andrew's West Street in #Canterbury diocese as our newest Corporate Member. Will your PCC be next? bit.ly/4mi2Qhp
Lay-led morning prayer in the beautiful church of St Ismael’s Uzmaston, where the churchwarden very kindly gave me the church flowers to lay at my great-grandparents grave. The finest churchyard view in the land. #anglican
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The Church of England also has prayers for Independence Day— that God would give grace to ‘our unhappy fellow-subjects in America’ that they might see the error of their ways and recognise their ingratitude for the many blessings of God’s Providence
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An all-British podium for the first time since 1968 🇬🇧
#McLarenF1 | #BarcelonaGP 💃
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A really important point contained in @Theosthinktank Cathedrals report (or as I used to put it, ‘do what we’re supposed to do excellently’)
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I want to thank @Eluned_Morgan for the over 30 years of service she has already given to our country and our party.
Eluned has been a formidable First Minister and tireless champion for Wales.
She broke barriers and has never stopped fighting for families in the communities she loves.
Together we have worked to lift children out of poverty, cut hospital waiting lists, and create thousands of new jobs.
I have no doubt her contribution to Wales will endure.
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Today we mark the centenary of the birth of our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty is remembered fondly by the people of St Davids, for her four visits to the city, including the distribution of Maundy money in 1982 and the granting of city status in 1995.
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It's time to volunteer in your local church, if you want to save it. New article @thecriticmag (free access in next post)
Wonderful to be in St Ismael’s Uzmaston and St David’s Prendergast this morning on placement ahead of stage 2 discernment meetings later in the year. A joy to be worshipping in this beautiful corner of the world.
He is risen indeed. Alleluia!
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The full breadth of Anglican worship at @StDavidsCath for Good Friday. 8am Prayerbook Mattins & Litany, Liturgy of Good Friday with Cross Veneration at 1.30pm, then pared-back Evensong with Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah 1. A prayerful day well spent.
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Who shall fathom that descending,
From the rainbow-circled throne,
Down to earth's most base profaning,
Dying desolate alone.
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If you want to see the best and worst of the Commons, watch Catherine West's snippy response to Geoffrey Cox. Disoriented by a rare display of brilliance in the Commons, she can only call him patronising (inevitably, before reading off a sheet) and her colleagues can only jeer
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Anglicanism is replacing theology with progressive proceduralism, writes @JSMilbank
thecritic.co.uk/the-church-o…
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I think, for the foreseeable future, I am going to pray this prayer- one of the Prayer Book’s finest- every morning and evening.
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Come and hear the Hans Zimmer Interstellar soundtrack played on the cathedral’s Willis organ by @rogersayerorgan the organist on the original movie soundtrack. Tickets available via QR code below 👇
Back at it with @RoyalHollChoir, recording Franck and Langlais at St Clotilde Paris. Gorgeous music in an equally gorgeous setting, alongside Mass at St Eustache yesterday and the American Cathedral this morning.
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