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Anna Lo

@l0anna.bsky.social
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just the sacristy rat / ✝️ 🏳️‍🌈 / proud Hongkonger in 🇨🇦

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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m SO looking forward to chanting the epistle for Michaelmas - probably the most metal lection I’ll have done. The dragon, Satan, the blood of the Lamb, oh man this is gonna be fun
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I return to my contention that the real benefit of Canadian federalism is that at any given moment there's always one province whose political situation can provide entertainment for everyone else.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fun to be among friends as crazy as you where our idea of souvenirs for each other from our travels are all “insane prayer cards I’ve made into third class relics at whichever shrine I visited”
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Holy fuck they broke Karl Rove. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/b...
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Karl Rove will vote for Democrat over Bo French
Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, made the comments at a private lunch in Austin, according to attendees.
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Elis⁺ @ancientspeak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Remember how the nuns were teaching me to scythe recently?Well one of them has just written about Gen Z's Nun Girl Summer, and honestly? Iconic behaviour from the good Sister. www.seenandunseen.com/im-nun-and-i...
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I'm a nun – and I'm taking Gen Z's nun girl summer seriously | Seen & Unseen
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’d argue here actually it’s not even “praying replacing believing”, but “saying replacing believing”. I find there’s an aversion to teaching at all.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just churchy things - trying to explain to the authorities we’re trying to change the appointed guardian of the columbarium because well… the previous one is now in that very columbarium and no one realized to sort this until after his death.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Folks who've followed me for a while might remember my grief when this church in my Toronto neighbourhood was destroyed by a still-unknown arsonist. Today I went to "Where Walls Meet Sky," an art exhibit in its ruins, which opened today. Beautifully curated & arranged & desperately moving.
A surviving wall clad in Tyvek construction wrap, three fabric installations --I forgot to photograph the label with the artist's name--suspended where the stained glass windows would have been , three others suspended where the doors were. As the top ones spin in the breeze, the light effects are like those once created by the stained glass. The only surviving mosaic in the church, in what was the apse, surrounded by Gareth Lichty's "Warp: St Anne's", crafted of flagging tape suspended from the walls. They fluttered in the breeze.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I really can’t get over what a rookie mistake it is to look the Government of Canada in the eye and say “We’re gonna need you to piss off Quebec.”
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maîtres chez nous sounds a lot better as a slogan in French tbh. Guess that’s we’re going with as a country now!
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
hell hath no fury like the Québécois scorned just saying
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Patrick Leblond (he/il) @prleblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“In the end, deal or no deal, what matters is the long game. What matters is that Canada’s economic and security dependence on the U.S. continues to decrease, thereby giving Canada even more leverage vis-a-vis the U.S. in future trade negotiations.” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Canada didn’t chicken out. We did the right thing
In the end, deal or no deal, what matters is that Canada’s economic and security dependence on the U.S. continues to decrease
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I wonder if President Zelensky had some advisors saying "sir, we cannot hurt Russian GDP more than they hurt ours, therefore we should submit to all demands". Maybe, but they sure weren't in this picture. He didn't listen to such nonsense. We haven't been invaded. But we are under attack....
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Anglocatholic pilgrimage unlocked! Evensong and Procession and Benediction for the Assumption of Our Lady at ASMS 😍💙
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When a chaotic old Irish nun (complimentary) driving you has you say the memorare for safe travels - be sure you do Esp when you realize you left your passport in a cafe 15min away, at 1hr til flight departs. By the grace of God, I made the final boarding call. Truly NEVER WAS ANYONE LEFT UNAIDED 🥲
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
45 years ago the Premiers successfully bullied PET into getting natural resources entrenched as exclusively provincial jurisdiction, "forests" absolutely understood as natural resources in this context. (S. 92A) The "national strategy" is for the Premiers to do their jobs!
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When California burns we send firefighters. When Ontario burns, Americans do this.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 16/07/2026
Sorry about all that smoke and consequences, America.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/07/2026
if it ends up being England v Spain in the final, I am gonna be insufferable on the Armada jokes. just need you all to know that now
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Liza Anderson @ecclesiangst.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For those looking for some fun continuing education, I'm teaching an online course on ancient and medieval Christianity in Asia and Africa this September and October! I'm excited to be able to teach a dedicated course on this material. cdsp.edu/call-courses...
Liza translating the Nestorian monumentLiza translating the Nestorian stele in Xi'an.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In the parish library, watching Norway/England while mending purificator corners and friend walks in: “This is the most iconic Anna activity” 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Good piece from the CofE that’s broadly relevant - “In an age of dissolving parties, unions, and associations, a parish that is simply, reliably there: worshipping faithfully each Sunday, keeping the doors open for prayer, and committing the dead to God isn’t a relic but a rock in an avalanche” 🕯️
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Changing Politics, Changing Country
The signs of collapsing faith in the system are all around us: politics, demography, and technology are all shifting radically at once.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I think the Church suffers when there’s a lack of scholar-bishops and monk-bishops and a surplus of CEO bishops.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Let's get back to my favorite agenda: monks and nuns are great. Which is one reason I'm convinced that a lot of this birthrate stuff is deeply Protestant (the kind that doesn't imagine religious life) and Catholics signing onto it are, wittingly or unwittingly, signing onto an anti-Catholic stance.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
POV your monastery is cooked
Erling haaland photoshopped to be carrying a double bladed axe
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Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I get so irate when fellow Christian clergy share that meme on social media that says something like, “Jesus offered an experience/started a movement that the empire turned into a religion.” My sibling in Christ, if you truly believe that, why remain a member of the clergy of said religion?
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Tyler @okty.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sunburns never before envisioned by humans.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What is left of Harry Kane's voice is hilarious.
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Kermit the Frog Dancing on Stage
ALT: Kermit the Frog Dancing on Stage
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It's the Gulf of England now, I don't make the rules.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I have a friend who is cheering for England and the husband is cheering for Mexico. They are on the verge of divorce.
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Funniest possible answer is Archbishop Sarah Mullally.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is WILD.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
They need to learn from hockey
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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Which means getting a coffee pick me up and heading straight to church from the pub, taking a quick nap in the parish library, and time for the rosary and Saturday evening Mass!
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Tough game. Still proud of the boys 🇨🇦 But now I can refocus on being a religious nutjob exclusively!
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
credit where it's due that fit goes crazy
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Only team Canada would try and start a bench brawl in soccer.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
JD VANCE’S BOOK CALLED MY MOM *W H A T* ????????????
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I converted to Catholicism last week. Here‘s why Pope Leo was wrong to excommunicate the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With my cousins from Hong Kong visiting this week, life has been hectic. But something really special has just been hearing and being called by my Chinese name. It’s still my name, even if I may seldom hear it, and it exists only transliterated on my ID.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ss. Peter and Paul - pray for us! Especially when we discourse and try to tear apart each other in the Church!
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
virtue, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee.
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Anna Lo @l0anna.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Lord have mercy. (Apparently she’s been released but still.)
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