#St Thomas church

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unholy activities <3

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11/01/23-Moon this morning (first picture in this photoset), Peregrine and more in Winchester and nine photos from Slimbridge last week which I’ve processed since the day and have not yet posted here 

It was precious to walk to the station in the glow of this moon this morning, serenaded by sweet Song Thrush and Blackbird song seeing one of the former at first light too. I also enjoyed seeing Carrion Crows, intimately observing the magical wing beats of a Kestrel over the bit of Lakeside I nickname Kestrel Corner at the north east of the site east of the allotments I’ve seen perhaps this one or Kestrels generally well here all three days this week so far and the pavement verge and bit at Lakeside that I enjoyed yesterday adorned by delightful winter heliotrope. It was lovely to see a smashing sun rise on the train and at work this morning, with the moon looking cracking in Winchester in a bright start too.

At lunch time I saw really well Winnie the Peregrine, my first of this iconic species seen this year at St. Thomas Church. The first time ever this location has been where I’ve seen my first of the year, the third time for Winchester generally after first seeing one at Winchester Cathedral in a year in 2018 and 2020, it is a pleasure for Winnie a Peregrine I’ve seen so much of over the years to be the first of her kind I’ve seen in 2023. It was also nice to see Feral Pigeon intimately in the High Street and Collared Doves flying into vegetation in the river and Wren and Blue Tit beside the River Itchen at lunch time.

The photos from Slimbridge the rest of the photos in this post are of; Pintails, young Bewick’s Swan, a view, Lapwings and Golden Plovers in the air, Pochard, Shelduck, Water Rail and a couple more views.   

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One of our Imperial Viscount Landaulette wedding cars outside St Thomas church in Upholland

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st thomas church

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about the church St. Thomas Church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, is a beautiful and historic place of worship that has been serving the community for over 150 years. The church’s architecture is a blend of Gothic and Victorian styles, featuring tall spires, pointed arches, and intricate stone carvings. One of the most striking features of the church is its beautiful stained glass windows, which were…

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St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor Angelicus

Dominican friar, philosopher and theologian. To think he was set to become a Benedictine abbot, instead he joined the unlikely poor friars of the Dominicans to become part of the radical mission in preaching the word of Christ.

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I was not as familiar with this St. Thomas back then, but now knowing a lot more, I'm becoming so fond of him and his life.

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St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a historic site at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago. A Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it was built in 1922 and opened in 1925. The church was designed by Barry Byrne, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and incorporated elements from Wright's Prairie School of design and from the modernist movement. Byrne had previously built the convent at St. Thomas Apostle in 1919.

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you know what if I were a peasant during the middle ages hearing this I wouldn’t even think twice about repenting. say what you will about the medieval catholic church but they did have some bangin acoustics

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Not fit to hate

People ask where I get the stuff that I write about.

I pray with the daily Mass readings. Then I read commentaries. Mostly InterVarsity’s “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture.”

The series gives you a few sentences to a paragraph on each verse. That someone wrote during the first 500+ years of the Church.

Maybe from someone famous, or someone not so famous. Sometimes nobody knows who wrote it. But always the good stuff, stuff that’s stood the test of time.

Like this one, on today’s Gospel (where Jesus says to “love your enemies”). It’s an anonymous work* from the 5th century, that reads like it was written this morning.

“I think that Christ ordered these things [to love our enemies] not so much for our enemies as for us: not because our enemies are fit to be loved by others, but because we are not fit to hate anyone.

For hatred is the prodigy of dark places. Wherever it resides, it sullies the beauty of sound sense.

Therefore, not only does Christ order us to love our enemies for the sake of cherishing them, but also for the sake of driving away from ourselves what is bad for us.

If you hate [your enemy], you have hurt yourself more in spirit than you have hurt him in the flesh.

Perhaps you don’t harm him at all by hating him. But you surely tear yourself apart. If then you are benevolent to an enemy, you have spared yourself rather than him.”

(* Known as the Incomplete Work on Matthew, St. Thomas Aquinas was so fond of it that he once said that he would rather have the complete work than be mayor of Paris.)

Today’s Readings

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St. Thomas a Becket Church, Fairfield, Romney Marsh, England, 1980 - by Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005), English

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(via One Minute Reflection – 5 November – “They shall see God.” – Matthew 5:8 – AnaStpaul)

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The Gilded Age Season 2 First Look

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#OTD in 1916 – Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford are married in the chapel of Kilmainham Gaol the night before he was to be executed for his part in the Easter Rising.

Grace was the second youngest of twelve children. Her sisters, Nellie and Muriel, were also avid nationalists as well as converts to Catholicism. Muriel married Thomas MacDonagh, who was executed in Kilmainham earlier on the day Grace married Joe Plunkett. It was said of the Gifford girls: “whenever those vivacious girls entered a gloomy Sinn Féin room, they turned it into a flower garden”. Fr…

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it's a bit hard to identify name trends as such in the past, but the first half of the 1500s definitely had a thomas surge, right? there were so many fucking thomases

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“Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary [Magdalene] go forth from among us, for women are not worthy of the life.

Jesus said: Behold, I shall lead her, that I may make her male, in order that she also may become a living spirit like you males. For every woman who makes herself male shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Gospel of Thomas, 114 (not canonical)

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“Simón Pedro les dijo: ¡Que se aleje Mariham [Magdalena] de nosotros!, pues las mujeres no son dignas de la vida.

Dijo Jesús: Mira, yo me encargaré de hacerla macho, de manera que también ella se convierta en un espíritu viviente, idéntico a vosotros los hombres: pues toda mujer que se haga varón, entrará en el reino del cielo.”

Evangelio de Tomás, 114 (idk how to say not canonical)

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aug 16, '23: st. thomas cathedral, bombay//