Amazing talk today by Heather Davis on Plastic Time! Organised by Patrick O'Hare and Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social)

Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) David G. Robertson CEASEFIRE NOW derek guy Before 😆

Susannah Crockford David G. Robertson CEASEFIRE NOW derek guy Before or after your international disgrace?

The martyrdom of St Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, on Egilsay: 'Stand right in front of me and strike me a hard blow on the head. It's unfitting for a chieftain to be beheaded like a thief. Take heart, poor fellow, and don't be afraid. I've prayed God to grant you his mercy.'

This morning I submitted the book manuscript for my ethnography of English Benedictine monastic life. There's a way to go - reviews, corrections, I hope to get more input & feedback from the monastic community - but the completion of this project, a long time coming, is in sight.

Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social)

Tom Holland Will you be coming over to Rousay, Egypt of the North?

Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) Phillip Blond Grow up.

Alastair McIntosh john milbank Richard Frazer That's interesting to learn - the St Magnus Way was launched in 2017 (900th anniversary of his martyrdom) and the Fife pilgrim way in 2019 so I had a vague sense of there being a surge in that period of time but hadn't known there was a grounding for it at the General Assembly

Conor McDonough OP ⚓️ Don't worry, I'm doing my best to balance it all out!

With that Magnus crossed himself and stooped to receive the blow, and took a single stroke on the middle of his head and so his soul passed away to Heaven. - from the longer Magnus' Saga

St Magnus, keeper of the laws and lover of peace, pray for us

Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) john milbank Richard Frazer Yes, the movement was going before Richard raised it at the Assembly as Convener of Church & Society committee. Early work was conducted by that late dear man, Rev Andrew Patterson of Church of Scotland and The Iona Community. scotsman.com/news/obituary-…

See also: sprf.org.uk

Susannah Crockford I fear that it may well be

Easter Sunday ICYMI: Dr Richard Irvine Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) talks about 'How to read: Lectio divina in an English Benedictine monastery'.

The idea of listening to the reading of the Bible whilst eating has a meditative quality to it.
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Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) Tangential, but a document as beautiful for its content as it is for its appearance, the Ashtiname of Muhammad, granting protection to the monks of St. Catherine's monastery, Sinai. trevorw1953 Armand D'Angour

Edmund Griffiths Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) Dr Francis Young In 1985 when the Unionists staged a walk out, they were turning them over every hour.

Richard Irvine (@robotforaday.bsky.social) Dr Francis Young Edmund Griffiths They just dismiss Dorries from the post of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham and appoint Adams in her place.

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Conor McDonough OP ⚓️ Tom Holland Can confirm. (Was taking a friend there yesterday in fact.) Mass is celebrated there monthly in the summer months, come and visit some time!