Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Praying this Sunday for Berlin, where hatred has brought grief to a city that should have been celebrating, and for the Cairngorms, where fire has swept through God’s creation. May God grant comfort to the grieving, protection to the vulnerable, and peace to all who are afraid. 051
Reposted by Br. ShepardMatt Nightingale @mattnightingale.bsky.social · 26/07/2026You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted. 083
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026A note as I settle into a different way of life as a solitary: substack.com/@brshepardsb....substack.comA New Name, A Quieter WayFollowing the Shepherd 031
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who kept something together that was close to falling apart. May God hold what you steadied, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who held their ground in a small, quiet way today. May God honour that steadiness, and grant you rest. 031
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who lost track of the day and are only now catching up with themselves. May God gather the scattered hours, and grant you rest. 051
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who closed a door today, knowing they would not open it again. May God keep you in the leaving, and grant you rest. 031
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who left a message unsent and chose silence instead. May God hold what you kept back, and grant you rest. 051
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who felt a small, unexpected kindness today and are still carrying it. May God let it take root, and grant you rest. 040
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are carrying something tender they don’t yet understand. May God hold it gently, and grant you rest. 071
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Offering Offices this day for my bonus dad, a faithful shepherd and steady guide. It’s his birthday, and I’m giving thanks for him reaching the end of his cancer treatment. Please join me in praying for him today. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who stood in a doorway a moment longer than needed, unsure whether to go in or turn back. May God meet you in the threshold, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who kept something to themselves today to keep the peace. May God hold what you held back, and grant you rest. 051
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who took a longer way home just to have a little more time to think. May God meet you on the road, and grant you rest. 042
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who kept the lights on longer than they needed to. May God meet you in the moment you finally let the dark come, and grant you rest. 072
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are laying down more than just the day. May God receive what you release, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who felt a little more like themselves today. May God guard that glimpse, and give you rest. 081
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are learning to live with unanswered questions. May God keep you in the waiting, and grant you rest. 072
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who moved through the day on instinct alone. May God bless what carried you, and give you rest. 010
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are carrying a decision that still feels uncertain. May God hold you steady, and grant you rest. 041
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who felt like a guest in their own life today. May God bring you home to yourself, and give you rest. 161
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are tired of starting over. May God honour every beginning, and grant you rest. 071
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who reached the end of the day without a clear sense of what it all meant. May God keep you in the unknowing, and grant you rest. 021
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are holding a disappointment no one else noticed. May God be gentle with what aches, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are letting the day end without getting the last word. May God hold what remains unsaid, and grant you rest. 073
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Friends, please join me in praying for the repose of the soul of Fr. Denis Geoghegan OCSO of Mount St. Bernard Abbey, who died today. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. 030
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who feel like they’re falling behind in their own life. May God keep pace with you, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who did one necessary thing today, and let that be enough. May God bless what was possible, and grant you rest. 0101
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Post–Holy Week power-down button: pressed. Silence, sleep, and letting everything settle. 010
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Offering Compline this night for those who don’t have the energy to be hopeful, only to be here. May God honour your staying, and keep watch while you rest. 171
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Holy Week prep for a monk who can’t sew: attempting to repair a habit with absolutely no skill whatsoever. 031
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I’ll be guest preaching for the Black Isle Charge this coming Monday–Wednesday of Holy Week. Mass begins at 19:00 each evening—do join us online via the livestream on the Scottish Episcopal Church on the Black Isle Facebook page. 041
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Friends, please join me in prayer for the soul of Rev. Baxter who has died suddenly. When I was a teenager trying to work out which church I would belong to, he was one of few who took my searching seriously. He answered many of my early questions about vocation and calling. 151
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Pausing the nightly Compline posts for a little bit while as I focus on getting on top of some health things. I’ll be back when things are steadier. 171
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who barely made it through today and know it. May God sit beside you in the wreckage, and keep watch while you rest. 051
Reposted by Br. ShepardMatt Nightingale @mattnightingale.bsky.social · 08/03/2026You don’t have to worship where you’re not wanted. 082
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who carried a kindness today that no one noticed. May God remember it, and grant you rest. 082
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Sung Compline by candlelight at the Cathedral this evening after a hard appointment, followed by a decaf oat iced vanilla latte. As close to heaven as one can get of an evening. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who chose patience today when impatience would have been easier. May God honour the restraint, and grant you rest. 040
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026A day of Holy Communion, study, and a little ministry. A bit of normality. God is good. 031
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who paused today and noticed the sky for a moment. May God keep that small wonder alive in you, and grant you rest. 070
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are ending the day a little braver than they began it. May God keep that quiet courage, and grant you rest. 010
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are carrying gratitude and grief in the same breath. May God hold both gently, and grant you rest. 061
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are noticing the ache of growth. May God bless what is stretching in you, and grant you rest. 041
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Praying for all caught in the sudden US-Israel conflict with Iran: for civilians, families, children and the peacemakers in hearts and governments. May mercy prevail where war stirs. 082
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Reading The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World this weekend. Ordinary places, mapped with extraordinary intent. 011
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Listening to All Down Darkness Wide on audiobook. The book is tender, honest, heart wrenching, and unafraid of the reality of mental illness — how it shapes love, memory, and the spaces between people. Quiet, but unflinching. 011
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are celebrating something they haven’t told anyone about. May God rejoice with you, and grant you rest. 071
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are trying not to measure themselves against anyone else. May God free you from comparison, and grant you rest. 151
Br. Shepard @brshepardsbbs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Offering Compline this night for those who are laughing at something that would have broken them last year. May God bless the strength you didn’t notice growing, and grant you rest. 041