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"Thy holy cities are a wilderness..."
From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the banks of the Don, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto.
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From honesty about the vagaries of the body's desires to the cults of medieval saints to the streetcars and the banks of the Don, Lafleur's poems probe what it means to be a queer person of faith formed by Toronto.
@egnlafleur.bsky.social
Happy pride and blessed Corpus Christi - I'm still v proud of this book - please read it
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The Pelican in her Piety, plucking her breast to feed her chicks on her own blood, in the east window at Debden, Essex, by Gibbs & Howard, 1882. This metaphoric symbol for eucharistic sacrifice was popular in the late medieval period, and it was popular in the 19th Century too.
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Pelican in her Piety, plucking her breast to feed her chicks on her own blood, in the east window at Debden, Essex, by Gibbs & Howard, 1882. This metaphoric symbol for eucharistic sacrifice was popular in the late medieval period, and it was popular in the 19th Century too.
The one thing about liturgical churches is that you are borne along on a glorious tide of eschatology all through November BUT they do insist on running the Christmas craft fairs this week anyway
I posit that the last week in November is the *worst* week in the year:
* Everything is still getting darker and colder,
* Christmas/leave is still far enough away that you can't do no work,
* But you start to worry about gifts and planning etc.,
* Early Christmas songs etc. are awful to hear
* Everything is still getting darker and colder,
* Christmas/leave is still far enough away that you can't do no work,
* But you start to worry about gifts and planning etc.,
* Early Christmas songs etc. are awful to hear
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The one thing about liturgical churches is that you are borne along on a glorious tide of eschatology all through November BUT they do insist on running the Christmas craft fairs this week anyway
Inspired by @massimofaggioli.bsky.social's article about tradcaths in Commonweal, I took my lapsed catholic self on a field trip open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Inspired by @massimofaggioli.bsky.social's article about tradcaths in Commonweal, I took my lapsed catholic self on a field trip open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
On today's edition of the substack which is rapidly becoming a sermon blog... open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
On today's edition of the substack which is rapidly becoming a sermon blog... open.substack.com/pub/egnlafle...
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Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026
All things that are passing - Spite Press
All Things that are Passing is a poem in verse and photos about holy wells in Ardmore, Co Waterford and their builder-custodians; in particular Hugh Byrne (fl.1800) and J. P. Rahilly (c.1870-1953), wh...
spitepress.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026
Robertson Davies klaxon
Not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Robertson Davies klaxon
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Engaging in Luddite behaviour daily for my mental health
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Engaging in Luddite behaviour daily for my mental health
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ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
14yo: if St Patrick was alive today, he’d probably try to explain the Trinity through men’s products that are like shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. It’s three in one and the only thing you need in the shower! Just like Jesus!
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
ok but try telling the Eastern Orthodox that the Body Wash proceeds from the Shampoo AND from the Conditioner and see where that gets you
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is 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner an orthodox dyophysite shower product with two and inseparable natures (shampoo and conditioner), a heretical monophysite unguent possessing only one nature, or is it a miaphysite union of two natures into a single composite
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
is 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner an orthodox dyophysite shower product with two and inseparable natures (shampoo and conditioner), a heretical monophysite unguent possessing only one nature, or is it a miaphysite union of two natures into a single composite
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🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
🎶 One breaaaad, one bodddddyyy, one Lord of Allllll 🎶
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Seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion
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I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
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It is Quite A Thing to be preparing for the feast of Christ the King next Sunday, specifically introduced in 1925 to remind Christians that we live under the rule of Christ, not the nations that humans have created, and see... this.
🚨The Home Secretary said "illegal migration is dividing our country."
Let’s be clear: the only thing dividing our country is a politics devoid of humanity and compassion.
The plans announced today are a cruel political choice. It is #NotInOurName.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/morally-and-...
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Let’s be clear: the only thing dividing our country is a politics devoid of humanity and compassion.
The plans announced today are a cruel political choice. It is #NotInOurName.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk/morally-and-...
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Women for Refugee Women : Morally and ethically bankrupt: Our response to the Government's announcement 17 November 2026
The Government has announced sweeping plans to overhaul refugee protection in the UK - some of the most hostile we have seen in recent years. We are outraged, saddened, and extremely concerned.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It is Quite A Thing to be preparing for the feast of Christ the King next Sunday, specifically introduced in 1925 to remind Christians that we live under the rule of Christ, not the nations that humans have created, and see... this.
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Today is also the feast of St Hugh of Lincoln, 12th Century bishop, transferred from yesterday because it was Sunday. He appears with the wild swan which was his friend and protector on Ninian Comper's 1912 reredos at Great Ryburgh, Norfolk. On the left, St George is less friendly to a dragon.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today is also the feast of St Hugh of Lincoln, 12th Century bishop, transferred from yesterday because it was Sunday. He appears with the wild swan which was his friend and protector on Ninian Comper's 1912 reredos at Great Ryburgh, Norfolk. On the left, St George is less friendly to a dragon.
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I spent the evening reading "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight" & enjoyed it more than I expected to.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I spent the evening reading "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight" & enjoyed it more than I expected to.
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Today's the last Sunday in Ordinary Time of this liturgical year, so the Mass readings are all about Last Things. The 14C parishioners of North Cove, Suffolk, were left in no doubt about what the Final Day would look like, thanks to the spectacular Doom painting on the south wall of the chancel.
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Today's the last Sunday in Ordinary Time of this liturgical year, so the Mass readings are all about Last Things. The 14C parishioners of North Cove, Suffolk, were left in no doubt about what the Final Day would look like, thanks to the spectacular Doom painting on the south wall of the chancel.
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reasonable, religious, and holy
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
reasonable, religious, and holy
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The fan vaulting in the retrochoir at Peterborough Cathedral creates an impression reminiscent of a bower of trees as you walk beneath it.
November 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The fan vaulting in the retrochoir at Peterborough Cathedral creates an impression reminiscent of a bower of trees as you walk beneath it.
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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
I would add that the sacramental life feeds and strengthens us for this work. The eucharist assures us of the real presence of Christ among us, our neighbors, our church, and the stranger, and reminds us that we are the body of Christ in which no one will be left behind.
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I would add that the sacramental life feeds and strengthens us for this work. The eucharist assures us of the real presence of Christ among us, our neighbors, our church, and the stranger, and reminds us that we are the body of Christ in which no one will be left behind.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
just reminding everyone that my reputation as a bog witch stems from when i met the oldcroghan man, went summarily mad, and the spagnum moss refused to let me go. this poem is from back in 2019-ish.
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It's not just about theology, writes @massimofaggioli.bsky.social. Catholic traditionalism today is about a Christianist agenda driving American politics. www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-tra...
Catholic Traditionalism After Francis
Traditionalism today is less about questioning Vatican II theology and liturgy and more about waging broader culture wars.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It's not just about theology, writes @massimofaggioli.bsky.social. Catholic traditionalism today is about a Christianist agenda driving American politics. www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-tra...