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Bowie Snodgrass

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Episcopal priest | poetry at bowiesnodgrass.substack.com | parent with @pgeorgemathew.bsky.social | she/her

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · Jan 23

It's a new year. Are you looking for a church? You are welcome at Christ Church in Short Hills, NJ, part of the Episcopal Church and world-wide Anglican Communion. See you Sunday! #tec #anglican

See you Sunday!

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit & there are varieties of services, but the same Lord & there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

#1Corinthians12 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Good Lord, deliver us. 📕

BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 1d

from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice; and from all want of charity,

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RNS @rns.org · 1d

OPINION: Unlike Trump, Leo acknowledges the reality of climate change and reaffirmed the church’s commitment to protect God’s creation.
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Pope Leo embraces Francis’ concerns on global warming and the environment

(RNS) — ‘The challenges identified in Laudato Si’ are in fact even more relevant today than they were ten years ago.’

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 2d

"Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" But when Jesus heard this, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.”

#Matthew9 #dailyoffice

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Tom Murphy @tommurphe.bsky.social · 3d

"The source of justice is not vengeance but charity."

- Birgitta of Sweden, (c. 1303-1373)

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 4d

The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

#1Corinthians10 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 5d

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.”

#Luke17 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 6d

They went and woke him up, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" Jesus said to them, "Why are you afraid, you of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a dead calm. They were amazed

#Matthew8 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote this as the motivational speech I needed to hear at the start of summer and am sharing it now as autumn begins.

Q: Is there a poem that reminds you of the change of seasons in life? #poem #poetry

The Hinge

Poem for a change of season

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

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First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

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Salisbury Cathedral @salisburycathedral.bsky.social · 7d

Our former Canon Treasurer, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, has been named the new Archbishop of Canterbury ✝️

We welcome her appointment and look forward to the vital ministry that she will exercise in the Church of England, the nation, and the global Communion.

The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 7d

When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean." He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose. Be made clean!"

#Matthew8 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 8d

Praying for repentance and mercy
For all observing Yom Kippur
For all affected by the Shutdown
For all detained & terrified by ICE
For hate to cease & wars to end
For peace and true renewal 🙏🏼

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 8d

"Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell-- and great was its fall!"

#Matthew7 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 10d

"Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”

#Matthew7 #dailyoffice

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 12d

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. But as for you, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

#1Timothy6 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 14d

“Have patience with me, Lord;
yet I have not wherewith to pay,
I confess to Thee;
forgive me the whole debt,
I beseech Thee.”

- Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester(1555-1626), oversaw translation of the King James Version Bible #KJV 🕯️

The Whole Debt

Poem assembled from Lancelot Andrewes’ Private Devotions

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 15d

"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven” - Jesus

#Matthew5 #dailyoffice #morningprayer

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 15d

As one was felling a log, his ax head fell into the water; he cried out, "Alas, master! It was borrowed." Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, Elisha cut off a stick, threw it in there & made the iron float. He said, "Pick it up."

#2Kings6 #dailyoffice

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 17d

Happy Rosh Hashanah and shana tova! 🍎 🍯

Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 18d

“His education in practical poetics, to coin a useful phrase, forged ahead at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in Manhattan” #tec

Poem of the week: Red Carpet by Steve Malmude

An elusive love poem, skittish and serious, seems to be about the poet’s mother and who might count as her ‘first love’

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 18d

Happy 21st night of September!

September

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 19d

"The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." For the hurt of my poor people I am hurt, I mourn, and dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead?

#Jeremiah8 #lectionary

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Bowie Snodgrass @bowiesnodgrass.bsky.social · 19d

while I paused
a dog barked down the street
blocks away, a train horn blew

I stopped to chat with a neighbor
strolling, liberated and alert

(2/2) #poem #Iputmyphoneinmypocket

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I put my phone in my pocket

A poem about walking outside

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