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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you can’t think of a story or illustration for your sermon maybe your sermon just doesn’t need one this week. God’s grace can be known in the text and the world for those with eyes to see and without an anecdote 📕

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Successfully got a bunch of catechumens singing from the plainsong psalter for the first time today. Universally positive feedback. “Plainsong isn’t accessible to the average parishioner”? Skill issue. Teach them. They love it. 🕯️

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s super ironic that for the “Season of Creation” we are wiping out whole forests to print massive service leaflets with bespoke liturgies. Want to honor creation? Just use the BCP. 📕

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/09/2026

I'll say, I'm ok with the pseudo Francis quote if what it leads to is lives so radically different from everyone else that people can't help but ask you "why are you this way?" rather than what it usually means which is "smile more at your cashier"

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 02/09/2026

So here's the real take-away most people are waiting for from the TEC Trajectory study: what distinguishes growing from declining parishes and can declining parishes... do what growing parishes do? #TECTrajectory 🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thinking about preaching Romans this week and it really is a shame that nothing in Rite 2 or EOW has quite the same force as "and here we present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee."🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Absolutely this. A priest I know *refuses* to celebrate the BCP’s Good Friday liturgy because he doesn’t like it. Instead, he adapts portions of it and cobbles something together from other resources. The result: denying a third of the Triduum’s liturgy to the parish. Liturgical narcissism.

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This ministry is an absolute gift. I didn’t “get” the psalms until I learned to chant them. And this way, you’re never chanting them on your own.

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The collect today is a banger. We do need the leaders of our church to realize that self-denying is their first duty. Not getting more power, more prestige, or a more money. Sacrifice first. ⚓️

O gracious God, we remember before thee this day thy servant and apostle James, first among the Twelve to suffer martyrdom for the Name of Jesus Christ; and we pray that thou wilt pour out upon the leaders of thy Church that spirit of self-denying service by which alone they may have true authority among thy people; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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Marguerite @margueritek.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tonight's Matthew reading-- If Jesus still loves Peter, he probably still loves me. 🕯😊

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Memento Mori Kira @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Paul’s “I do not do what I want to do but I do the very thing I hate” except it’s about me scrolling instead of reading an actual ding-dang book. ⚓️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Today marks one year since ordination as a priest in Christ’s church. Parts of this job are really hard. Parts are spectacularly beautiful. All of it has been grace. This is good work, friends. 🕯️

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My Ember Day Letter advice for anyone who wants it: Four paragraphs. Academic stuff (what you learned) Parish/internship stuff (same) Sense of vocation (how it’s grown) Personal stuff (be normal, don’t overshare)

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Folks that have taught or participated in the catechumenate before: what topics did you cover? Might have the opportunity to do a formal program ahead of All Saints, and I’m starting to build the curriculum 🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thought folks on here might get a kick out of the sticker my wife made for my water bottle. Now it matches my uniform 🕯️

A black water bottle with a white square-shaped sticker placed to resemble a clerical tab collar.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Recommendation if you are feeling overwhelmed: try chanting along to Evening Prayer at thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com while lying on the floor, preferably on your back, and let the sound resonate through you into the floorboards. If you don't know all the texts, hum along. ⚓

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The Daily Office Chanted | Lawton Productions

<span>Welcome to The Daily Office Chanted, a podcast offering daily Morning and Evening Prayer sung to Gregorian Chant. As St. Augustine said, "Qui cantat, bis orat" (He who sings, prays twice) — a be...

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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find him in the Chalice" St John Chrysostom

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

First Christmas Eve mass as a priest. Nights like this I’m baffled that I get to do this. 🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Reminder that we've been robbed of the best verses of "What Child is this." The original text doesn't have "this this is Christ the king..." as a refrain. Past me went to the trouble of adding the rest of verses 1 and 2 back into my hymnal. Always fun to find these surprises. 🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Well-intentioned progressive Christians are especially susceptible to this. We aren’t called to build the kingdom or bring it to earth; the kingdom is coming whether we’re ready for it or not. Our job is to make disciples and live in such a way that we point to the coming of that kingdom. 🕯️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

@forwardmovement.org y’all did good work on this one 🕯️

Inside cover of forward movement’s Booklet of Common Prayer.

Table of contents of the Booklet of Common Prayer.

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

this is the best collect in the entire book — it goes so hard God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!

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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

If your church isn’t focused on the redemptive love of Jesus Christ, you’ve lost the plot. This applies both to whacky conservatives and whacky liberals. Seriously: the Gospel is grace and mercy. All the time. ⚓️

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Biggest surprise so far about parish ministry (as a curate) is just how much of my job boils down to sending emails back and forth trying to get people into the same room as one another.

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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New challenge for the Narthex. Please join me, and let all of us know if you are doing it! Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️

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High Church Raccoon⛪️🦝 @pilgrimaltsburg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Nothing makes me go angry goose more than when an ACNA member talks about how welcoming and "big tent" Anglicanism is. Welcoming for whom? WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

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a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it

ALT: a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it

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Joseph P-M @josephpmathews.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

It is utterly wild to me that people — especially my age and older — are asking LLM AIs to write or reply to emails. Beloved babes of God we’ve been doing this for 25 years

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Folks who’ve started the Daily Office at your parish: any tips? What’s worked and what hasn’t?

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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Big believer in the power of prayer. Also big believer in this saying I heard somewhere once: "When you pray for God to move mountains, you have to be prepared to wake up next to a shovel." These politicians pray to God with their ears plugged shut. 🕯

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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 29/05/2025

I think a fundamental unresolved, and often unexplored, tension in the large Episcopal Church's drive for a proliferation of many and varied novel liturgies is between the desire to represent growing diversity (good) AND an unexamined cultural preference for constant novelty (bad, prob. unAnglican)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/05/2025

1. Republican legislators were in uproar after a Democratic representative asked the sponsor of an anti-trans sports ban to prove they were not trans. Their bill would require teenage girls to do just that. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender

Woolford would not publicly disclose his medical history, but under his own proposed laws, children across Michigan might have to.

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Good stuff from St. Basil tonight 🕯️

Week of 5 Easter - Monday
A reading from the treatise On the Holy Spirit by Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea (379):
Our Lord made a covenant with us through baptism in order to give us eternal life. There is in baptism an image both of death and of life, the water being the symbol of death, the Spirit giving the pledge of life. The association of water and the Spirit is explained by the twofold purpose for which baptism was instituted, namely, to destroy the sin in us so that it could never again give birth to death, and to enable us to live by the Spirit and so win the reward of holiness. The water into which the body enters as into a tomb symbolizes death; the Spirit instills into us life-giving power, awakening our souls from the death of sin to the life that they had in the beginning. This then is what it means to be born again of water and the Spirit: we die in the water, and we come to life again through the Spirit. To signify this death and to enlighten the baptized by transmitting to them knowledge of God, the great sacrament of baptism is administered by means of a triple immersion and the invocation of each of the three divine Persons. Whatever grace there is in the water comes not from its on nature but from the presence of the Spirit, since "baptism is not a cleansing of the body, but a pledge made to God from a clear con-science."
As a preparation for our life after the resurrection, our Lord tells us in the gospel how we should live here and now. He teaches us to be Peaceable, long-suffering, undefiled by desire for pleasure, and detached (continued on next picture)

(Continued from previous) from worldly wealth. In this way we can achieve, by our own free choice, the kind of life that will be natural in the world to come.
Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, we ascend to the kingdom of heaven, and we are reinstated as adopted children. Thanks to the Spirit we obtain the right to call God our Father, we become sharers in the grace of Christ, we are called children of light, and we share in everlasting glory. In a word, every blessing is showered upon us, both in this world and in the world to come. As we contemplate them even now, like a reflection in a mirror, it is as though we already possessed the good things our faith tells us that we shall one day enjoy. If this is the pledge, what will the perfection be? If these are the firstfruits, what will the full harvest be?

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The feast of St. Dunstan seems an appropriate day to share that I’ve been using this little beauty for the Office the past week or so. It contains everything you need (aside from the lectionary) to chant matins and evensong according to the classical prayer book tradition (1/2) ⚓️

Front cover of St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter, a deep green hardcover book with golden lettering.

A plainsong setting of psalm 22 in Gregorian notation.

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A Guy Named Brian (he/him) @guynamedbrian.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“To see in the corporal placed over the remaining consecrated elements a representation of the actions of Joseph of Arimathea at the Lord's Burial, is a reminder that the Holy Communion is, in the words of Article XXVIII, the ‘Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death’.” 📕

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'Wrapped around the body of Christ in the Eucharist': covering the remaining consecrated elements in the Prayer Book Holy Communion

When all have communicated, the minister shall return to the Lord's table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated el...

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Nintendo DS Lewis ✝️ @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

St. Francis said “preach the gospel at all times; use words when necessary” to emphasize the proclamatory, evangelical value of acts of mercy and charity, not to denigrate the value of verbal proclamation. In order to preach the gospel at all times, it is necessary to use words.

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Seems like Leo XIV might not buy that whole “absolutely null and utterly void” thing

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Recommendation for Narthex ⚓ friends: someone in my BCP study group alerted me to a new podcast, "Walking the Dogma" by Rev. Dominic Moore & Br. David Hedges, BSG, of Dio. Arizona, a conversational exploration of the 39 Articles from an inclusive orthodox perspective. azdiocese.org/2025/04/walk...

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Walking the Dogma - Episcopal Diocese of Arizona

Walking the Dogma is a great new podcast by two of Arizona’s own clergy, the Rev. Dominic Moore and Brother David Hedges, BSG.

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Mulcahy @midwest-mulcahy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I’ve still never met a Christian who has been able to explain convincingly why it matters at all that “God loves us.”

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

With this last assignment, I'm officially done with my M.Div. TBTG. Alleluia, alleluia!

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Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi @poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

here’s a core issue with any “Crunchy-adjacent” worldview: it is an attempt to spiritualize what prior generations experienced as suffering — we simply do not struggle to LIVE in the way any of our forebears did, nor do we have to WORK half as hard as they did (eg LAUNDRY!!) —

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fr. ryan @rtlockwood.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Y’all this thread is so good. Also I love this idea.

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Matt @gatesong.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

How it started vs. how it's going. I feel so unbelievably blessed to have spent the last 3 years with these people. I love that we've been semi-immortalized on the seminary wall. Pictured: me, @keakealani.bsky.social, Kenzi (who, rather admirably, is not On Here), and @rtlockwood.bsky.social. ⚓

Four people in black clerical clothing with white tab collars sit together beneath a photo of the same four people sitting together, in street clothes, in a lecture.

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