Matilda
@mltempest.bsky.social
ordinand, anglo-catholic-ish. left wing, nerdy, queer. occasionally talks about church, mostly talks about food.
me a week ago: Oh isn't it great that this 'compare the translations' Hebrew essay is only 1,000 words, that'll be super quick and easy!
me now: 1,000 words is not enough to adequately express my Disdain and Loathing for the English Standard Version
me now: 1,000 words is not enough to adequately express my Disdain and Loathing for the English Standard Version
May 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
me a week ago: Oh isn't it great that this 'compare the translations' Hebrew essay is only 1,000 words, that'll be super quick and easy!
me now: 1,000 words is not enough to adequately express my Disdain and Loathing for the English Standard Version
me now: 1,000 words is not enough to adequately express my Disdain and Loathing for the English Standard Version
any local clergy and/or ordinands feel like practising their deliverance ministry? we've managed to break two mugs and a wine glass this evening and i'm starting to worry the flat is haunted.
March 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
any local clergy and/or ordinands feel like practising their deliverance ministry? we've managed to break two mugs and a wine glass this evening and i'm starting to worry the flat is haunted.
currently feeling a lot of love for the @westcotthousecam.bsky.social community. I've injured my leg and can't walk at the moment, and no fewer than five separate people checked in to make sure I'd still be able to receive communion at our community Eucharist
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
currently feeling a lot of love for the @westcotthousecam.bsky.social community. I've injured my leg and can't walk at the moment, and no fewer than five separate people checked in to make sure I'd still be able to receive communion at our community Eucharist
real talk now, which do we think contains more rosaries: the goth club or the theological college?
February 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
real talk now, which do we think contains more rosaries: the goth club or the theological college?
Writing an assignment on Percy Dearmer and realising he was significantly more based than one might expect.
(Text is from Donald Gray's biography, Percy Dearmer: A Parson's Pilgrimage)
(Text is from Donald Gray's biography, Percy Dearmer: A Parson's Pilgrimage)
February 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Writing an assignment on Percy Dearmer and realising he was significantly more based than one might expect.
(Text is from Donald Gray's biography, Percy Dearmer: A Parson's Pilgrimage)
(Text is from Donald Gray's biography, Percy Dearmer: A Parson's Pilgrimage)
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Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."
January 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."
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A great thread explaining why you should probably block (and definitely not follow!) those "cute animal"/"funny meme" accounts on here. (Or anywhere, ever. If it's not Amazon ads it's suddenly turning into a crypto account - or worse - and putting that bs on your timeline.)
It's an excellent time for a quick look at a network of 32 content farm accounts that have been attempting to build an audience through "fun" image posts (and good old-fashioned bulk following), apparently in order to sell random crap on Amazon.
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A great thread explaining why you should probably block (and definitely not follow!) those "cute animal"/"funny meme" accounts on here. (Or anywhere, ever. If it's not Amazon ads it's suddenly turning into a crypto account - or worse - and putting that bs on your timeline.)
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#clergymaltclub here is actually a three way combo clergy/organist/ordinand malt club. and of course we all went for different drinks 😅
December 25, 2024 at 1:16 AM
#clergymaltclub here is actually a three way combo clergy/organist/ordinand malt club. and of course we all went for different drinks 😅
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December 25, 2024 at 12:30 AM
I do understand why visiting family for the holidays is difficult for many neurodivergent people, but for me it's always meant going to the place where everyone is just as weird as I am - but they can also afford to turn the heating on.
December 24, 2024 at 9:53 PM
I do understand why visiting family for the holidays is difficult for many neurodivergent people, but for me it's always meant going to the place where everyone is just as weird as I am - but they can also afford to turn the heating on.
sneaking out to a cafe on Christmas Eve to write tomorrow's sermon, despite having had a month to write it already. How's everyone else's day going? 😅
December 24, 2024 at 2:32 PM
sneaking out to a cafe on Christmas Eve to write tomorrow's sermon, despite having had a month to write it already. How's everyone else's day going? 😅
'I put your dad's miniature beholder in the nativity scene. I thought it looked enough like a biblically accurate angel.'
December 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
'I put your dad's miniature beholder in the nativity scene. I thought it looked enough like a biblically accurate angel.'
Cardiff has some great secondhand bookshops
December 16, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Cardiff has some great secondhand bookshops
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New email sign-off just dropped
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
New email sign-off just dropped
trying to figure out whether the line 'In ancient Israel, a prophecy was much closer to a call out post' is the right tone to hit for my teaching on John the Baptist at church tomorrow 🤔
December 7, 2024 at 5:06 PM
trying to figure out whether the line 'In ancient Israel, a prophecy was much closer to a call out post' is the right tone to hit for my teaching on John the Baptist at church tomorrow 🤔
at the start of the year I challenged myself to read 40 books this year. I'm currently on 33. do we think December is going to be the month i manage to read 7 books 🤔
December 1, 2024 at 9:49 PM
at the start of the year I challenged myself to read 40 books this year. I'm currently on 33. do we think December is going to be the month i manage to read 7 books 🤔
a friend asked me why I was making so many typos in a message and I had to shamefully admit it's because my desk currently looks like this 😅
November 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
a friend asked me why I was making so many typos in a message and I had to shamefully admit it's because my desk currently looks like this 😅
feeling validated in my stubborn preference for physical books tonight (ebook software can't figure out how to render Hebrew and English text in the same document and keeps displaying the Hebrew backwards)
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 PM
feeling validated in my stubborn preference for physical books tonight (ebook software can't figure out how to render Hebrew and English text in the same document and keeps displaying the Hebrew backwards)
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Here is a selection of medieval hedgehogs, as portrayed in illuminated manuscripts. Mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries.
Why? Because they are cute and I love them. And you all seem like discerning people of good taste.
Why? Because they are cute and I love them. And you all seem like discerning people of good taste.
May 14, 2023 at 2:51 AM
Here is a selection of medieval hedgehogs, as portrayed in illuminated manuscripts. Mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries.
Why? Because they are cute and I love them. And you all seem like discerning people of good taste.
Why? Because they are cute and I love them. And you all seem like discerning people of good taste.
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to be loved is to be changed
November 19, 2024 at 4:50 AM
to be loved is to be changed
today in @karenod.bsky.social's class on Christian worship: summarise your understanding of the state of the Eucharist at end of the medieval era... using plasticine
November 18, 2024 at 7:00 PM
today in @karenod.bsky.social's class on Christian worship: summarise your understanding of the state of the Eucharist at end of the medieval era... using plasticine
honestly desperate to know what would happen if we DID have a Catholic or Jewish prime minister. do they sneak around it by finding a deputy? change the procedure? consider disestablishment?
November 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
honestly desperate to know what would happen if we DID have a Catholic or Jewish prime minister. do they sneak around it by finding a deputy? change the procedure? consider disestablishment?
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A useful description of the procedure for choosing and appointing the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/how-is-a-new...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/how-is-a-new...
How is a new Archbishop of Canterbury chosen?
A new Archbishop of Canterbury will be appointed following the resignation of Justin Welby on 12 November 2024. Timings are yet to be confirmed.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 14, 2024 at 10:29 AM
A useful description of the procedure for choosing and appointing the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/how-is-a-new...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/how-is-a-new...