Max Price
@maxap.bsky.social
Catholic Anglican priest on the periphery in the diocese of Toronto. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🏳️🌈👨❤️💋👨 ✝️Ancient. Take me to where the spirit is / my people are.
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Max Price
@maxap.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hello. I’m Max, 83 years a human, 50 years a priest, 40 years a Benedictine monk, 12 years married and living in Toronto, Canad
RSThomas hits it every time. It being the truth.
January 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
RSThomas hits it every time. It being the truth.
Sorting through all my stuff for a New Year clear out has put me in a strange in-between space. I’m riding a surge of joyful memories yet throwing out the very things that are bringing bring the past to life in the present. Yet they’ve got to go because I can’t take them with me on the journey.Sigh.
January 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Sorting through all my stuff for a New Year clear out has put me in a strange in-between space. I’m riding a surge of joyful memories yet throwing out the very things that are bringing bring the past to life in the present. Yet they’ve got to go because I can’t take them with me on the journey.Sigh.
Today is the Feast of Stephen in most church calendars. In my church of St Stephen-in-the-fields we’ve moved it to another time when there’s less stuff going on. But I’ll take this chance to say my thanks to Mother Maggie and the community of St Stephen’s for being who they are and the way they are.
December 27, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Today is the Feast of Stephen in most church calendars. In my church of St Stephen-in-the-fields we’ve moved it to another time when there’s less stuff going on. But I’ll take this chance to say my thanks to Mother Maggie and the community of St Stephen’s for being who they are and the way they are.
Twelve years today - thank you
December 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Twelve years today - thank you
I love that the pompiers assembled in Notre Dame de Paris tonight look like a conclave of futuristic Cardinals in their hi-viz red jackets.
December 7, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I love that the pompiers assembled in Notre Dame de Paris tonight look like a conclave of futuristic Cardinals in their hi-viz red jackets.
Today I’m remembering Noel Patrick Barry (1917-2016) on his birthday (December 6, feast of St Nicholas aka Santa Claus, hence ‘Noel’). He was one of the greatest monks (and the last great abbot) of his generation. He had an inner strength and presence that honestly terrified me in my younger days.
December 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Today I’m remembering Noel Patrick Barry (1917-2016) on his birthday (December 6, feast of St Nicholas aka Santa Claus, hence ‘Noel’). He was one of the greatest monks (and the last great abbot) of his generation. He had an inner strength and presence that honestly terrified me in my younger days.
Wishing a memorable thanksgiving to all my American family and friends, wherever you may be!
November 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Wishing a memorable thanksgiving to all my American family and friends, wherever you may be!
Watched ‘Wicked’(the movie) last night with my gay besties(except the bestest, who was on a fling with his frisbee mates). We had a blast. One moment cut through, with unexpected sharpness: when she realizes that the Wizard of Oz she previously idolized is the author of all she is fighting against.
November 28, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Watched ‘Wicked’(the movie) last night with my gay besties(except the bestest, who was on a fling with his frisbee mates). We had a blast. One moment cut through, with unexpected sharpness: when she realizes that the Wizard of Oz she previously idolized is the author of all she is fighting against.
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“The heart of Christ is ‘ecstasy’, openness, gift and encounter. In that heart, we learn to relate to one another in wholesome and happy ways, and to build up in this world God’s kingdom of love and justice.”
Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos, 28
Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos, 28
November 17, 2024 at 8:09 PM
“The heart of Christ is ‘ecstasy’, openness, gift and encounter. In that heart, we learn to relate to one another in wholesome and happy ways, and to build up in this world God’s kingdom of love and justice.”
Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos, 28
Pope Francis, Dilexit Nos, 28
I’m a sucker for things royal, but I don’t like the feast of Christ the King. The only decent sermons on the topic are ones that subvert it.
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
I’m a sucker for things royal, but I don’t like the feast of Christ the King. The only decent sermons on the topic are ones that subvert it.
Got myself into a bit of a muddle with my Bluesky accounts, because I’d forgotten that I’d already set up an escape route from the waste land about a year ago (this account); and then, unnecessarily, set up a second in response to the recent provocations. I’ll be sticking with this one.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Got myself into a bit of a muddle with my Bluesky accounts, because I’d forgotten that I’d already set up an escape route from the waste land about a year ago (this account); and then, unnecessarily, set up a second in response to the recent provocations. I’ll be sticking with this one.
Hello. I’m Max, 83 years a human, 50 years a priest, 40 years a Benedictine monk, 12 years married and living in Toronto, Canad
November 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Hello. I’m Max, 83 years a human, 50 years a priest, 40 years a Benedictine monk, 12 years married and living in Toronto, Canad
Saw ‘Conclave’. It reminded me of some abbatial elections that I’ve been privy to, though the cardinals were gentler and pulled more punches in discussing candidates than the monks.
November 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Saw ‘Conclave’. It reminded me of some abbatial elections that I’ve been privy to, though the cardinals were gentler and pulled more punches in discussing candidates than the monks.
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Today is the fortieth anniversary of my mother Grace’s amazing, happy death. She was eager to meet the Lord, not to escape suffering or a life grown stale: quite the opposite. Her last word, spoken with almost her last breath, was ‘Amen’, said loudly and firmly, in response to the ‘Glory be…’
November 17, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Today is the fortieth anniversary of my mother Grace’s amazing, happy death. She was eager to meet the Lord, not to escape suffering or a life grown stale: quite the opposite. Her last word, spoken with almost her last breath, was ‘Amen’, said loudly and firmly, in response to the ‘Glory be…’
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Hello. I’m Max, 83 years a human, 50 years a priest, 40 years a Benedictine monk, 12 years married and living in Toronto, Canada
November 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Hello. I’m Max, 83 years a human, 50 years a priest, 40 years a Benedictine monk, 12 years married and living in Toronto, Canada
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Hit, out of the blue, by a whacking prodromal migraine aura. Usually I get a few zig zags, but this is one is an entirely new visual excitement: a revolving toothy zip fastener eating up chunks of my visual field like a portal to a new dimension.
November 15, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Hit, out of the blue, by a whacking prodromal migraine aura. Usually I get a few zig zags, but this is one is an entirely new visual excitement: a revolving toothy zip fastener eating up chunks of my visual field like a portal to a new dimension.
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What I hadn’t expected about old age was true gentle delight of dissolving into more or less nothing while enjoying everything more and more.
August 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
What I hadn’t expected about old age was true gentle delight of dissolving into more or less nothing while enjoying everything more and more.
‘Fellow Travelers’ made me think about my own story of god and friendship, love, sex and sexuality. Several characters had stories uncannily parallel with my own, helping me appreciate the providential hand that rescued me from my own nonsense and still blesses me beyond measure.
January 27, 2024 at 5:31 AM
‘Fellow Travelers’ made me think about my own story of god and friendship, love, sex and sexuality. Several characters had stories uncannily parallel with my own, helping me appreciate the providential hand that rescued me from my own nonsense and still blesses me beyond measure.
In remembrance of four queer, christian, young men I’ve known who took their own lives, two while they were committed to my pastoral and priestly care. They wrestled with a false god, a rigid church and a vicious world. Unbound they live free now, and so do I, because of them.
January 26, 2024 at 7:39 PM
In remembrance of four queer, christian, young men I’ve known who took their own lives, two while they were committed to my pastoral and priestly care. They wrestled with a false god, a rigid church and a vicious world. Unbound they live free now, and so do I, because of them.