Suz Cate
@suzcate.bsky.social
Episcopal priest, porch-sitter, watcher of birds and people.
The only time I knowingly initiated an AI query was on Canva a couple of years ago to create a Palm Sunday graphic and the results so totally weirded me out that I just can’t even imagine using it pastorally.
July 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The only time I knowingly initiated an AI query was on Canva a couple of years ago to create a Palm Sunday graphic and the results so totally weirded me out that I just can’t even imagine using it pastorally.
People over pickle ball.
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
People over pickle ball.
Our power went out right after the early service. St. Patty’s Breastplate accompanied by piano is pretty cool. I kept laughing during the Sequence hymn as we sang 4 times, “let there be light!” Preached about the Trinity as Love in Action (thanks Ellen Davis). Lights back on as we started Prayer C.🕯️
June 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our power went out right after the early service. St. Patty’s Breastplate accompanied by piano is pretty cool. I kept laughing during the Sequence hymn as we sang 4 times, “let there be light!” Preached about the Trinity as Love in Action (thanks Ellen Davis). Lights back on as we started Prayer C.🕯️
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Today we feel the wind beneath our wings
Today the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
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Today the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
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Our Mother-tongue Is Love; A Sonnet for Pentecost
Here, once more is my sonnet for Pentecost. Drawn from ‘Sounding the Seasons’, my cycle of sonnets for the Church Year, this is a sonnet reflecting on and celebrating the them…
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June 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Today we feel the wind beneath our wings
Today the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/o...
Today the hidden fountain flows and plays
Today the church draws breath at last and sings
As every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.
malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/06/08/o...
All of these notes break my heart
I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
June 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
All of these notes break my heart
⚓Very truly I tell you, the Kingdom of Heaven is like picking green beans to give away in the misty rain with the smell of gardenias rising all around...and nibbling on rain washed blackberries as you finish up.
June 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
⚓Very truly I tell you, the Kingdom of Heaven is like picking green beans to give away in the misty rain with the smell of gardenias rising all around...and nibbling on rain washed blackberries as you finish up.
⚓ Today is the 9th anniversary of my first day as the Rector of Holy Trinity in Clemson. What a wild and wonderful ride it has been! I have grown to love these good people and this part of God's creation more than I had imagined when I first arrived. 🫶🏼
June 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
⚓ Today is the 9th anniversary of my first day as the Rector of Holy Trinity in Clemson. What a wild and wonderful ride it has been! I have grown to love these good people and this part of God's creation more than I had imagined when I first arrived. 🫶🏼
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Jesus said he came to bring good news to the poor.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
May 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jesus said he came to bring good news to the poor.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
I spent my morning planning to host refugees in our parish hall as they learn to speak a new language, digital literacy, financial literacy, and the importance of changing HVAC filters and batteries in smoke detectors. What a high and Holy calling we have to welcome our new neighbors. ⚓
May 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spent my morning planning to host refugees in our parish hall as they learn to speak a new language, digital literacy, financial literacy, and the importance of changing HVAC filters and batteries in smoke detectors. What a high and Holy calling we have to welcome our new neighbors. ⚓
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NEW from me: South African bishop thanks Episcopal leader for declining to resettle white Afrikaners.
"What the (Trump) administration refers to as anti-white racial discrimination is nothing of the kind,” the Archbishop of Cape Town said in a letter. religionnews.com/2025/05/15/p...
"What the (Trump) administration refers to as anti-white racial discrimination is nothing of the kind,” the Archbishop of Cape Town said in a letter. religionnews.com/2025/05/15/p...
South African bishop thanks Episcopal leader for declining to resettle white Afrikaners
(RNS) – ‘Our government implements affirmative action on the lines of that in the United States, designed not to discriminate against whites but to overcome the historic disadvantages Black South Afri...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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If you grew up in the South, you know just how heavenly this smells. If you don't know this joy, come on by Holy Trinity this weekend and experience it for yourself. While you're here, say a prayer and tie a ribbon on the fence. ⚓
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you grew up in the South, you know just how heavenly this smells. If you don't know this joy, come on by Holy Trinity this weekend and experience it for yourself. While you're here, say a prayer and tie a ribbon on the fence. ⚓
Sounds about right to me.
🎶 When the Lord comes back… 🎶
Disclaimer: don’t @ me about cussin’ and smokin’ 🙄
Disclaimer: don’t @ me about cussin’ and smokin’ 🙄
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sounds about right to me.
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As an Episcopalian working in the public sector, I’ve long drawn inspiration from her example.
🕯️ Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: … (1/2)
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🕯️ Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: … (1/2)
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Frances Perkins
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May 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
As an Episcopalian working in the public sector, I’ve long drawn inspiration from her example.
🕯️ Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: … (1/2)
www.satucket.com/lectionary/f...
🕯️ Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all may live in health and decency: … (1/2)
www.satucket.com/lectionary/f...
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Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
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My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
I love the light coming through the wavy blown glass planes. This is such a serene and peaceful place. St. Paul's Pendleton, SC.
May 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I love the light coming through the wavy blown glass planes. This is such a serene and peaceful place. St. Paul's Pendleton, SC.
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Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🤣Yes, that’s me on mic throughout that amazing postlude. All I can say is that I was indeed very happy that all those people came to church yesterday. Seeing my little friend guest conducting the brass quartet just makes my heart leap for joy! ⚓️
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Festival Easter Eucharist, April 20, 2025
YouTube video by Holy Trinity Clemson
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April 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🤣Yes, that’s me on mic throughout that amazing postlude. All I can say is that I was indeed very happy that all those people came to church yesterday. Seeing my little friend guest conducting the brass quartet just makes my heart leap for joy! ⚓️
www.youtube.com/live/uwKjmVk...
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HW&E recovery day one: coffee and cuddles with the pup.
April 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
HW&E recovery day one: coffee and cuddles with the pup.
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Give rest, O Christ, to your servant Francis with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Give rest, O Christ, to your servant Francis with your saints, where sorrow and pain are no more, neither sighing, but life everlasting.
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⚓️I left my phone in my car, so I didn’t get any pictures. Our Easter services were joy-filled with bells ringing at every alleluia (little brass bells for everyone), & PACKED. I believe people are hungry for good news wrapped in beautiful liturgy and elevated by glorious music. Happy Easter, y’all!
April 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
⚓️I left my phone in my car, so I didn’t get any pictures. Our Easter services were joy-filled with bells ringing at every alleluia (little brass bells for everyone), & PACKED. I believe people are hungry for good news wrapped in beautiful liturgy and elevated by glorious music. Happy Easter, y’all!
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At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home
April 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, and this fragile earth, our island home
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“In his gripping book Schindler's List (not the screenplay), Thomas Keneally refers to Auschwitz variously as a "duchy," a "kingdom," and "Planet Auschwitz." 1/2
April 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“In his gripping book Schindler's List (not the screenplay), Thomas Keneally refers to Auschwitz variously as a "duchy," a "kingdom," and "Planet Auschwitz." 1/2