Paul Shackerley

Dean of Brecon in Diocese of Swansea & Brecon. Addicted to recipe books. Public Theology, justice and equality. Chair of the Church in Wales Discernment Panel.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

@adrianmorgan Haha limewash has to be done every five years to make sure we don’t get to the decay of the past.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

I was told today that the Dean of Brecon is taking his privacy and introversion to a whole new level. The cheek. Funny though.

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

The church doesn't need to include women, disabled people, queer people, Black people, materially poorer people, or any other groups it intentionally or unintentionally excludes.

The church needs to recognise that without them, there is no church at all.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

What’s a weekend? Great line Dame Maggie.

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London Film Music Orchestra brings music magic to Brecon Cathedral - https://t.co/DRCwrxo00l # via @Dailymotion

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Super Moon/Blue Moon over Brecon tonight.

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What a great idea. We might borrow it 😂

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Daily prayers for you my dear friend. And lots of candies of course.

[Michael Sadgrove 🇪🇺 @MichaelSadgrove]

I am being admitted to hospital tomorrow for cardiac surgery on Monday. So I won’t be posting here for a while. I look forward to being back before too long.

Your thoughts, and maybe a lighted candle, will mean a lot to me. Thank you. Pax et bonum.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

@FrGarethDavies Many thanks. Hope all is well. My sister is here from Tredegar tonight celebrating. Do you ever get back ‘home’

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Birthday gift to self today. New table mats and napkin rings. Still waiting for the napkins. Then all ready for the next dinner party. I should get out more, I think 🎉

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A good evening in the Deanery garden listening to the jazz inside cathedral.

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Great big band sound Brecon Cathedral tonight. Fab crowd. ‘Jazz Mindset’ concert. Quite a good buzz inside and outside today for Brecon Jazz weekend.

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Outstanding and powerful message.

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

I have finally listened to Lucy Winkett’s sermon from @StJPiccadilly this Sunday.

I am so glad I did.

Thanks be to God for Lucy and all those who are able to see the joy of a belonging that reaches out to embrace and not restrict.

https://t.co/EFnNCpdR6f

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Introverts be literally going through it all and still be smiling like nothing happened. The way they have mastered hiding emotions is scary. You may think you know what's up with them. Bruh trust me, you know nothing.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

I’m two years from retirement. CoE withdrawing from property market in Wales due to Welsh landlord/tenant legislation. CiW provision means they take all pension lump sum and savings to put into property. It’s a nightmare for our generation of retiring priests.

[Robert Thompson (he/him) @Rgt71Robert]

“MORE clergy may need help with retirement housing than previously forecast, the Pensions Board has concluded, after a new survey found that 69 per cent of respondents believed it unlikely that they would own a property on retirement.”

Many disturbing figures. In this report:

1) that 50% of clergy find stipends not sufficient or just about sufficient to live on is difficult in itself

2) but add to that that this means that saving enough for a deposit to buy a house if you have been in ministry for almost your entire life & your partner is on not much more either is not very likely &

3) that the Pensions board feel the provision of increasing housing to meet demand is financially unsustainable & want to promote the buying of houses & home ownership by clergy in order to offset costs……

This all puts us in the Church of England in quite a morally problematic situation. This all relates to other issues that we as a church wish to address & in fact undermine those commitments:
1) increasing vocations from the young
2) increasing vocations from those in ‘working class’ communities,
3) this also relates to a much larger extent than predominantly white community to the issue of increasing vocation among GMH people

https://t.co/ng8RZFXxil

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

How fortunate Friday is my day off. It’s going to be a long night Thursday.

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There’s a book written on this by and old friend Michael Ford. I’ll look it up on my bookshelf.

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

@ChrisTheVic I think this would be very good. Shall we chat

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

Where I was ordained 30 years ago to a full St Paul’s Cathedral. What a great memory and experience for me.

[London Diocese @dioceseoflondon]

Presenting our deacons 2024!
They gathered at @StPaulsLondon to make their Declarations and Oaths - with the @bishopSarahM @bishopoffulham and the Bishop of Ebbsfleet - before heading off on retreat.
Please keep them in your prayers: https://t.co/7d7M6g0Z9G

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

What a treasure you are to mother Church Charlie.

[Charlie Bączyk-Bell 🏳️‍🌈 @charliebelllive]

Three years on…. what a whirlwind it has been..!

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

@matthew_Searles Thank you Matthew. Long time since Doncaster days.

[Paul Shackerley @PaulShackerley]

30 years ago this week, SS Peter and Paul-tide, I was ordained priest. Thank you to the people and places who have shaped who I am today.