🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️

Yorkshireman; Churchwarden; Foodbank volunteer; ex RAF; ex Police. Anglo-Catholic. Love Malbec, Travel, Steam and Narrowboats.

[Dave @DaveKent101]

2400 years ago, Socrates had a saying which perfectly encapsulates the mess that Great Britain is currently in.

The accuracy is terrifying….

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most beautiful paintings of Christ ever made, and for over a century people have walked past the one detail that holds its entire meaning...

It is called The Light of the World, painted by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt. Christ stands at night in an overgrown garden, holding a lantern, his hand raised to knock at a wooden door.

It illustrates a line from the Book of Revelation:

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock."

The door is choked with ivy and weeds. It has clearly not been opened in a very long time.

Now look at the door itself, and you will see what holds the key to understanding the entire artwork… there is no handle. No latch, no knob, nothing on the outside at all.

Hunt left it off on purpose: this door can only be opened from within.

The door is the human soul, and the point is that Christ can stand there and knock forever, but he cannot let himself in. The handle is on the other side. It has to be you who opens it. The ivy has grown thick over the frame because this particular door has stayed shut for years, and yet his lantern is still burning, and he is still standing there, still knocking, waiting for a door that may never open.

Fifty years after he painted it, Hunt felt he had to spell the meaning out: the shut door, he said, was “the obstinately shut mind.”

The light has not gone out and whether that door ever opens was always, only, up to you...

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@NowtbutaLad @ArnsideCG @railnigel Many happy memories of visiting Arnside in the 60’s, dozens of families driving onto the sands for a great day out. Best sand for sand castles!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Insane

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Congratulations!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Blessed Christmas greetings to you and yours.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@benonwine YES

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Amen to that!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@JoanneMOrmesher Stunning, looks so peaceful.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a Church that will move with the world. We want a Church that will move the world.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@OldEngland1066 @bo66ie29 Woolies!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@churchofengland Amen.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@JoannaMoomin Love the views from your garden - in all weathers!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

Happy Yorkshire Day!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Congratulations!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Very well put, he’s a decent sort of chap surrounded by self righteous cretins (there, I’ve said it!).

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@churchofengland Amen

[Samaritans @samaritans]

📢 Help us keep pushing the conversation around mental health further all year round.

Mental Health Awareness Week might be over, but we need to keep the conversation going, 365 days a year.

🔃 Retweet if you’re in.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

@FrDidymus Catch 22 - timeless!

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Cap'n Phil 🇺🇦🍷✝️ @PhilPopay]

Alleluia, He is risen!
Happy Easter.