David Sheen ☩
@cappellanus.bsky.social
Clerk in Holy Orders | Chaplain & Fellow BNC, Oxford | DPhil Candidate in Theology: 19C American Church History | Erstwhile Physio | Welsh 🏴 | Runner & occasional walker of an elderly dog.
‘The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.’ #HannahArendt
September 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
‘The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.’ #HannahArendt
We adore you, O Christ,
and we bless you;
because by your cross
you have redeemed the world.
#HolyCrossDay
and we bless you;
because by your cross
you have redeemed the world.
#HolyCrossDay
September 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We adore you, O Christ,
and we bless you;
because by your cross
you have redeemed the world.
#HolyCrossDay
and we bless you;
because by your cross
you have redeemed the world.
#HolyCrossDay
3 weeks today to race day! Good long run this morning. Cardiff Half is on Sunday 5 October.
I’m fundraising for #CancerResearch at Cardiff Uni. To give, go to my JustGiving page. Every little helps Diolch! Thanks!
#running #training #halfmarathon #fundraising
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
I’m fundraising for #CancerResearch at Cardiff Uni. To give, go to my JustGiving page. Every little helps Diolch! Thanks!
#running #training #halfmarathon #fundraising
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
September 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
3 weeks today to race day! Good long run this morning. Cardiff Half is on Sunday 5 October.
I’m fundraising for #CancerResearch at Cardiff Uni. To give, go to my JustGiving page. Every little helps Diolch! Thanks!
#running #training #halfmarathon #fundraising
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
I’m fundraising for #CancerResearch at Cardiff Uni. To give, go to my JustGiving page. Every little helps Diolch! Thanks!
#running #training #halfmarathon #fundraising
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
Five weeks to go until @CardiffHalf. Raising money for #CancerResearch @cardiffuni. Every little helps. You can donate via my JustGiving page. #running #training #fundraising #cardiffhalf
Diolch yn fawr!
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
Diolch yn fawr!
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
August 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Five weeks to go until @CardiffHalf. Raising money for #CancerResearch @cardiffuni. Every little helps. You can donate via my JustGiving page. #running #training #fundraising #cardiffhalf
Diolch yn fawr!
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
Diolch yn fawr!
www.justgiving.com/page/running...
A beautiful sky and a gloriously quiet Radcliffe Square. Taken early in the morning before the summer tourist rush. Even after a couple of years I still have to pinch myself occasionally that this where I work.
August 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A beautiful sky and a gloriously quiet Radcliffe Square. Taken early in the morning before the summer tourist rush. Even after a couple of years I still have to pinch myself occasionally that this where I work.
Almighty God, who looked upon the lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chose her to be the mother of your only Son: grant that we who are redeemed by his blood may share with her in the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ…
#BVM #Dormition #Assumption
#BVM #Dormition #Assumption
August 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Almighty God, who looked upon the lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary and chose her to be the mother of your only Son: grant that we who are redeemed by his blood may share with her in the glory of your eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ…
#BVM #Dormition #Assumption
#BVM #Dormition #Assumption
84 years ago, 14 August 1941, #MaximilianKolbe died in Auschwitz. The deputy camp commander picked 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts. When one of the men cried out ‘My wife! My children!’ Kolbe volunteered to take his place.
August 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
84 years ago, 14 August 1941, #MaximilianKolbe died in Auschwitz. The deputy camp commander picked 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts. When one of the men cried out ‘My wife! My children!’ Kolbe volunteered to take his place.
Always great espresso at Hardlines, Canton, Cardiff.
July 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Always great espresso at Hardlines, Canton, Cardiff.
Very much looking forward to the next few days attending this conference at Pusey House,Oxford.
#restoringtheimage
#restoringtheimage
July 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Very much looking forward to the next few days attending this conference at Pusey House,Oxford.
#restoringtheimage
#restoringtheimage
An energy filled Oxford Pride March 2025 which even the rain could not dampen. Good to walk with friends & colleagues. The route was in reverse this year, ending rather conveniently in front of Brasenose.
#OxfordPride2025 🏳️🌈
#BrasenoseCollege
#UniversityOfOxford
#OxfordPride2025 🏳️🌈
#BrasenoseCollege
#UniversityOfOxford
June 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
An energy filled Oxford Pride March 2025 which even the rain could not dampen. Good to walk with friends & colleagues. The route was in reverse this year, ending rather conveniently in front of Brasenose.
#OxfordPride2025 🏳️🌈
#BrasenoseCollege
#UniversityOfOxford
#OxfordPride2025 🏳️🌈
#BrasenoseCollege
#UniversityOfOxford
Ascension Day eccentricities in Oxford at Brasenose & Lincoln colleges. Beating the bounds, Ivy Ale, and Madrigals. The main college site is half in the parish of the University Church of SMV & half in the parish of SMNG. We crowned the day with a Choral Mass with the joint choirs of both chapels.
May 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ascension Day eccentricities in Oxford at Brasenose & Lincoln colleges. Beating the bounds, Ivy Ale, and Madrigals. The main college site is half in the parish of the University Church of SMV & half in the parish of SMNG. We crowned the day with a Choral Mass with the joint choirs of both chapels.
Ascension Day - if you are in Oxford this evening please do come along at 6.00pm for our Choral Eucharist. A joint service with Lincoln College.
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ascension Day - if you are in Oxford this evening please do come along at 6.00pm for our Choral Eucharist. A joint service with Lincoln College.
#Easter
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
Atgyfododd Crist! Yn wir atgyfododd!
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Icon of the Resurrection by the Ukrainian artist & iconographer Khrystyna Kvyk.
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
Atgyfododd Crist! Yn wir atgyfododd!
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Icon of the Resurrection by the Ukrainian artist & iconographer Khrystyna Kvyk.
April 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#Easter
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
Atgyfododd Crist! Yn wir atgyfododd!
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Icon of the Resurrection by the Ukrainian artist & iconographer Khrystyna Kvyk.
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη!
Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
Atgyfododd Crist! Yn wir atgyfododd!
Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Icon of the Resurrection by the Ukrainian artist & iconographer Khrystyna Kvyk.
#HolySaturday
…we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection.
(An excerpt from the collect for Easter Even)
Image: The Lamentation of Christ, c.1480, by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
…we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection.
(An excerpt from the collect for Easter Even)
Image: The Lamentation of Christ, c.1480, by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
April 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
#HolySaturday
…we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection.
(An excerpt from the collect for Easter Even)
Image: The Lamentation of Christ, c.1480, by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
…we may be buried with him; and that, through the grave, and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection.
(An excerpt from the collect for Easter Even)
Image: The Lamentation of Christ, c.1480, by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
#GoodFriday
Ecce lignum crucis,
in quo salus mundi pependit:
Venite adoremus.
Image: El Greco, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca.1577-87, The Met.
Ecce lignum crucis,
in quo salus mundi pependit:
Venite adoremus.
Image: El Greco, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca.1577-87, The Met.
April 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#GoodFriday
Ecce lignum crucis,
in quo salus mundi pependit:
Venite adoremus.
Image: El Greco, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca.1577-87, The Met.
Ecce lignum crucis,
in quo salus mundi pependit:
Venite adoremus.
Image: El Greco, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca.1577-87, The Met.
Some light reading and hopefully some writing.
#research #oxford #dphil #phd #chapter #writing #historyofchristianity #americanhistory #nineteenthcentury #intellectualhistory
#ecclesiasticalhistory
#research #oxford #dphil #phd #chapter #writing #historyofchristianity #americanhistory #nineteenthcentury #intellectualhistory
#ecclesiasticalhistory
April 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some light reading and hopefully some writing.
#research #oxford #dphil #phd #chapter #writing #historyofchristianity #americanhistory #nineteenthcentury #intellectualhistory
#ecclesiasticalhistory
#research #oxford #dphil #phd #chapter #writing #historyofchristianity #americanhistory #nineteenthcentury #intellectualhistory
#ecclesiasticalhistory
Today is Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week. #PalmSunday #HolyWeek2025
April 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today is Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week. #PalmSunday #HolyWeek2025
It’s Megan’s 16th birthday today (112 in human years)! Quite an achievement and she is still enjoying life albeit much more slowly & unsteadily.
Penblwydd hapus i ti 🎉🎂🙌
Photos: Today at 16 years enjoying the warmth of the sun ☀️ in our garden in Oxford and at 3 months in Penarth.
Penblwydd hapus i ti 🎉🎂🙌
Photos: Today at 16 years enjoying the warmth of the sun ☀️ in our garden in Oxford and at 3 months in Penarth.
April 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s Megan’s 16th birthday today (112 in human years)! Quite an achievement and she is still enjoying life albeit much more slowly & unsteadily.
Penblwydd hapus i ti 🎉🎂🙌
Photos: Today at 16 years enjoying the warmth of the sun ☀️ in our garden in Oxford and at 3 months in Penarth.
Penblwydd hapus i ti 🎉🎂🙌
Photos: Today at 16 years enjoying the warmth of the sun ☀️ in our garden in Oxford and at 3 months in Penarth.
Long run day on a glorious sunny Sunday. A 90min base run along the Oxford Canal. It’s five weeks today until the Bidwell’s Oxford Town & Gown 10k race. Hoping for a good number Brasenose College runners. #running #training #longrun #spring #SunnySunday #Oxford #OxfordCanal
April 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Long run day on a glorious sunny Sunday. A 90min base run along the Oxford Canal. It’s five weeks today until the Bidwell’s Oxford Town & Gown 10k race. Hoping for a good number Brasenose College runners. #running #training #longrun #spring #SunnySunday #Oxford #OxfordCanal
A bright & sunny start to the day. Radcliffe Square still and quiet before the tourists arrive. Some photos taken on my way to early morning Communion at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. #Oxford #RadcliffeSquare #Spring #EarlySundayMorning
April 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A bright & sunny start to the day. Radcliffe Square still and quiet before the tourists arrive. Some photos taken on my way to early morning Communion at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. #Oxford #RadcliffeSquare #Spring #EarlySundayMorning
Last night was the annual college feast - The Betty Morley Dinner. Always a delightful evening in college with lots of interesting guests. #oxfordcollegelife
March 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Last night was the annual college feast - The Betty Morley Dinner. Always a delightful evening in college with lots of interesting guests. #oxfordcollegelife
Visited Oriel College chapel this afternoon. A view from the gallery and the Newman window.
February 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Visited Oriel College chapel this afternoon. A view from the gallery and the Newman window.
The tower of the University Church from New Quad.
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The tower of the University Church from New Quad.