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Tess Clothier (she/her)
@tessclothier.bsky.social
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Medievalist, linguist, church administrator. Likes place-names, hagiography, birds, ballet, choral music. West Country transplant to Notts.
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Lent reading.
March 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Let’s goooooooo
March 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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A delight to sing mass for All Saints’ Day this evening - and very much enjoyed this poem by Malcolm Guite referenced in the sermon.

St Mary, St Jeanne d’Arc, St Æthelthryth - ora pro nobis!
Though Satan breaks our dark glass into shards Each shard still shines with Christ’s reflected light, It glances from the eyes, kindles the words Of all his unknown saints. The dark is bright With quiet lives and steady lights undimmed, The witness of the ones we shunned and shamed. Plain in our sight and far beyond our seeing He weaves them with us in the web of being They stand beside us even as we grieve, The lone and left behind whom no one claimed, Unnumbered multitudes, he lifts above The shadow of the gibbet and the grave, To triumph where all saints are known and named; The gathered glories of His wounded love.
November 1, 2023 at 10:11 PM
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Big sky, big wonder
October 24, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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Best weekend with my favourite tiny girl 🥰
October 17, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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This World Mental Health Day I am endlessly grateful for those who carried me when I simply couldn’t carry myself. The past few years have been more difficult than I could have ever imagined, but I really feel like I might be coming out of the woods.
October 10, 2023 at 5:29 PM
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More emails like this, please!
An email containing a photo of a black and white cat
October 6, 2023 at 9:37 AM
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This afternoon’s company…
October 1, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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Glorious evening launching the one and only M.A. Kuzniar’s newest book ‘Upon A Frosted Star’. So fun getting to dress up and celebrate!
September 22, 2023 at 8:00 PM
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Difficult Evensong but made it through - and the light through the West window while recessing was GLORIOUS.
A medieval church nave with gilded angels along the ceiling on each side, and evening light coming through a large stained-glass window at the end.
September 20, 2023 at 6:15 PM
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Have come home post-massage (an end-of-retail gift to myself) to @jennyowenyoungs.bsky.social’s new record! Exactly the vibe I was after, 10/10.
September 19, 2023 at 3:36 PM