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Jay Burkardt

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“Incognito” priest. Reads more than posts. Northern raised but those are my southern approved cheese grits which are much better looking than my “smiling” face.

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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having known several people who have died from this cancer, this is the definition of joy tinged with grief.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A blessed Final Seersucker Sunday to all who celebrate. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Anyone with suggestions for prayers offered when someone is removed from a columbarium in order to be interred elsewhere? This was not a temporary committal, but I am wondering about a reworking of the EOW3 temporary committal. ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’ve been using Mapquest ever since they kept it Gulf of Mexico unlike other nav maps
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have only a couple of items on my bucket list, and this is at the top of it.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ugh, today was one of those days I was so stressed and anxious and busy that I forgot I have meds for that
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Our rector search is now officially live! If anyone is looking to serve a downtown congregation in Rochester NY, please check us out! I’m happy to answer any questions, too. stpaulsec.org ⚓️
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Home | St.Paul's Rochester, New York, Episcopal Church, Christian, 25 Westminster Road
Home | St.Paul's Rochester, New York, Episcopal Church, Christian, 25 Westminster Road
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
For my Senior Associate Rector/Associate Pastor gang: mailchi.mp/ptsem/class-...
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Ever Feel Responsible but Not in Charge?
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graceandmarty.bsky.social @graceandmarty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
⚓In the past year, I have come to truly be grateful for the Nicene Creed. It tells a most beautiful story of Infinite Love becoming entangled in finitude because of deep, mad, crazy love. I think the Creed could be used as a basis for Christian education. Each line a starting point for conversation.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Don’t tell the youth where I am! We’re playing hide and seek in the church for youth group tonight! ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Quebec is my absolute favorite city to vacation in. A little longer drive than Montreal for us, but I’d be happy if every vacation I took was to there. Summer, fall, winter, absolutely spectacular. Top food, art, nature, city, high class, low brow has it all for us
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Taking apart a couple of DIY projects and am impressed by how much they are simultaneously both over-built and badly built. So many screws! Such heavy wood! Such bad joints and corners!
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Everybody be honest, how many of you reflexively said “Amen” at the end of the second reading today? ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Made a pastoral visit today and was not prepared for the parishioner to have recently moved into the same room where my grandmother died at the nursing home not quite 2 years ago. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Blessed day 2 of the feast of the Ascension (after transferring and celebrating yesterday)! ⚓️
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
God's doing it. We're just along for the ride.
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother’s Day to all, but especially: - Trans moms - Supportive moms of trans kids - Found moms for trans people who’ve lost theirs
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Looking for a little sermon prep help from my TEC folks: can anybody please send me a pic of the Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2022 essay for Julian of Norwich? It has a translations of the "all shall be well" passage that I particularly liked but can't remember exactly and I don't have it at home. TIA! ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
PUFFINS!!!!!
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This entire feed is an exercise in self-control for me to not reply to every post with the next line
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Woah, I just looked at my various to-do lists and realized that for the first time since maybe right after Christmas I am actually caught up. Still lots to do, but it's all normal stuff and not anything I'm behind on. It's been an exhausting stretch. Alleluia indeed. ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Does anybody have a favorite painting/stained glass/woodcarving/anything visual of Jesus and Nicodemus? Working on a gift for someone and wondering if there’s better options than google is showing so far ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This doesn't bode well. Literally 5 minutes into looking at my new Vocation Hub profile, it stopped saving changes. After logging out and then back in, it wouldn't let me access the profile. 🙄 ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Anybody have a link to either a website or a video that has a recording of a real live human saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’’ Lots of AI versions, and a decent number of spelled out pronunciation guides, but I'm hoping for something for folks to listen to? TIA ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I almost sneezed this morning so naturally I'll be shotgunning EmergenC ten times a day between now and the final dismissal on Easter Sunday. ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I just realized that our online scheduling tool that assigns lectors, EM's, ushers, etc has managed to double-assign both people and positions from 3/15 thru Easter 2. People assigned to consecutive weeks and two people assigned to a single position. And now it needs straightened out 😢🤬 ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Just learned that unbeknownst to myself, I apparently quoted Bad to the Bone in my sermon this morning. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I used this exact scene last week in therapy and my therapist finished my description of it bc she knew it too.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
working on leaflets for Palm Sunday thru Easter Sunday and next year's Ash Wednesday will now feature the remains of Microsoft Word after I heave it into the sun. ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Someone left their phone at the church on Saturday and showed up Sunday looking for it. Couldn’t find it so I took down their spouse’s phone number. Now we’ve found the phone but I lost their notepad I wrote their number in and only know their first name. Really hoping they call back to check!
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Icy slushy snowy rainy sleety mix all day really suppressed our attendance this year by neatly 40% after steady growth the last few years. But a nearly 100% jump in streaming the service. Also weirdly the first year we didn’t have any children at any of the services, but more visitors than usual. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We’re going bougie for pancake supper at church tonight, apparently. People have brought both Kerrygold butter and real homemade maple syrup to be set out for the tables. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our congregation just received the tariff bill for our green silks we had restored in the UK. But tell me again how the consumer isn’t paying the tariff. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
One of the most sacred days for our @beautifulanonymous.bsky.social Community.
An image of Punxsutawny Phil in the style of a religious icon. Golden back ground, halo around his head, and wearing a white robe with pink robe over it. He is holding his proclamation scroll in one hand and his face looks like this a bit pissed off he has to do this every year. Couldn’t everybody at least wait until he’s had his coffee and breakfast in the morning?
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Has there ever been a published recipe that actually lists enough garlic?
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Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Dear Lord, if you can find just ten righteous people here in Minnesota, will you make ICE leave? 🕯
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Seems the right time to revive this thread from nearly a decade ago. What are today's #Beatitudes? ⚓ Blessed are the Immigrant, for you will find a home. Blessed are the Asylum Seekers, for you will safety. Blessed are those who are Disappeared, for you will be found.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My current good news and source of joy is that I recently tried again to make biscuits (US-style) and have miraculously found I can. Good biscuits are elevated with a thick slather of butter. These biscuits don’t even need butter, have layers, and are soooo tender.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
As the cold, wind, and windchill settle in even more deeply here today to dangerous levels, please offer a prayer for Amelia. A strong-willed and physically frail new widow who is burying her husband and is distraught about being able to see him buried and knowing it may not be safe for her. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hoping the weather this weekend doesn’t keep too many from our Annual Meeting. It’s also the official intro of our search committee and first parish-wide chance to chime in about the search. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
TEC folks, I must have been sick the day we covered the Rite I Burial version of Psalm 27. For Rite II Burial, do you use the full Psalm or the truncated version from Rite I? Pretty sure this is the first time someone has chosen it for a service I've helped put together. ⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It’s only the 5th and we’ve already scheduled thee funerals for this month. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
My wife, teenage daughter and I are sending out the year by watching Cocaine Bear and holy crap this movie is bonkers
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Sometimes the Discover tab pays off
Back to back screenshots: “oh no. I just got a really good idea for a novel,” directly above a headline for The Onion that reads, “Home Depot introduces new 12-foot-tall Baby Jesus skeleton.” I’d read this book!
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Somehow made it through Advent and the first Christmas services, including two separate L&C, without hearing adam lay ybounden OR Jesus Christ the apple tree! ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The only band’s shirt I’ve ever owned
Light green tshirt with the words Jug Band and images of the band members from Emmet Otters Jug Band Christmas special. It is the single greatest Christmas special of all time.
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Grrr…I definitely did not ask for a Christmas Eve migraine when I woke up. I hope I caught it in time to knock it back. ⚓️
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎵They don’t need permission, make their own decision…
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tis the season for grumbling at how long the choir anthems are when they send you to a page count not divisible by 4.⚓
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Jay Burkardt @jburkardt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Met with someone who recently began attending after years away from church. Told me they are using the Venite app for The Office and listening to the Forward Movement podcasts as well, then asked if there was anything more they could be doing. Brother, you're doing more than most Episcopalians! ⚓
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