Bacon wrapped scallops on home made creamed corn

Charles, King and Martyr, pray for us

Goulash simmering away on the stove

Type of the perpetual virginity of Our Lady. The office of the circumcision is very Marian

This ordo corresponds to the #AnglicanBreviary in almost every respect. So pleased that my copy arrived today, delayed by the Canada Post strike, but all ready to begin the new calendar year tomorrow

Debating starting this on 1 January… Anyone done it?

Just finished this—and could not figure out for the longest time why it was a day early… (2024 was a leap year)

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb, Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment, There He hath made Himself to His intent Weak enough, now into our world to come; But O, for thee, for Him, hath th’inn no room? (John Donne)

WTAF 🤷‍♂️

I have just obtained a beautiful BCP altar missal that is the *entire* 1962 BCP and not the abbreviated, Holy Communion-only version that I have seen and used heretofore. Anyone know anything about it? It’s a Cambridge University Press printing from 1962.

This fabulous book is part of my Advent reading this year. I know that I’ll be returning to it often

Tota pulchra * es, María, et mácula originális non est in te.

Cæcília * fámula tua, Dómine, quasi apis tibi argumentósa desérvit

S. Cecilia, ora pro nobis 🐝

#Chester

It was a privilege to lead a brief service for colleagues at Church House this morning