Fr Sebastian Hamilton

Rector of @StCsSandwich and Worth. | Fool for Christ | Catholic Anglican | Take the Faith deadly seriously. Have enormous fun while doing it.

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

The Church in which I was baptised and grew up. Sadly Gloucester Archives hold a letter from a later Vicar consenting (with regret) to matches taking place at the same time as services at St Cyr’s.

[Historic Cricket Pictures @PictureSporting]

Lovely picture of Stinchcombe Stragglers players heading from church to the cricket ground. In the summer some services were held in front of the cricket pavilion and once a year the player attended a Cricketers' Service in their whites before heading to the ground. Cricket and the church were once intertwined parts of village left across England

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@PriceLaurence @MadsDavies Ability/experience is one thing, and a great help of course, but if the admin burdens are dull/frustrating/fruitless, and with the rise of Grandparent babysitters, it still takes a team of many to cover the job of one volunteer less than a generation ago.

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@tc1415 If only they’d said, ‘Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord, King Charles.’

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@WalkerMarcus I don’t think it. I know it.

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@MadsDavies The fear of an Archbishop arriving to a totally empty church might be the required catalyst for finally remembering to update service times on Benefice websites…

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@_F_B_G_ A Netflix 12-part serial drama, surely? Padded out around episodes 7 and 9 with two flashback episodes centred on the devoted Lady Richeldis, and a greedy King?

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@YvannaNJ @holly The completist medieval town in England, and remember that no trip to Sandwich is complete without a visit to St Clement’s 😉

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@JamesRice21 @EvanAG1999 Doing a cursory search for the Church on X, I’m please to inform you that the pulpit was restored to its rightful position a month after your visit, and is used weekly. The carpets are gone, the floors restored, and at Easter the restored High Altar reredos tiles will be unveiled

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@2D0XPS Our AWA has more than doubled in 2 years, but new members make up less than 50% of that. It’s mostly down to people attending more regularly, and this has many positive knock-ons in terms of people engaging with mission, praying more, etc - in turn attracting new worshipers.

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@revfelixsmith @MadsDavies That would, of course, rely on a Diocese wanting to actively hear from clergy who have suffered with stress/disillusionment

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@turtology Don’t, just focus on Sunday morning folk first? Best advice I had (metaphorically meant): ‘Don’t put up glass doors [website/social media/outreach/etc.] until what’s happening inside is worth seeing.’ Be confident that the ‘welcome’ invitation is clear, understood, shared by 90%.

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@tc1415 Either way, keep your briefcase locked if you see a waiter with a pitcher of cream

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@EvanAG1999 I like that I instantly knew which chasuble this was, and where, having admired it only last week

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@RIExcelsis

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

Civic Sunday Parish Eucharist featuring a guest preacher, guests and dignitaries, and a bit of Bl Nicholas Ferrar’s tomb.

‘Hastings, Sandwich, Hythe, New Romney,
towns whose story now we hymn,
bound in strength with glorious Dover,
ancient towns and many a limb.’

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@annemecremin ‘The Mystery of Faith’ is what I give out, John Francis-Friendship

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

@_F_B_G_ ‘Thheeeeeerrre’ at the end is always truly beautiful. It’s entirely on a par with the other greatest TV music moment. https://t.co/JNyb6WCiHN

[Fr Sebastian Hamilton @FrSJMHamilton]

That feeling when Slytherin win the House Cup