Robin Ward

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@SummersideVicar Edward Caswall toured Ireland in the 1850s before he became a Catholic, precisely to settle his mind about vernacular participation. He said most services in larger Anglican churches were pretty inaudible.

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@WalkerMarcus Newman says in the Development of Doctrine that only terror of purgatory is enough to produce sufficient clergy, given how crap it all is …

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@northumbriana Here’s my special occasions ashtray

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I’d forgotten she was a smoker

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One of my favourite Margo scenes ♥️

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@Adrian_Hilton Miles Young was Tory Leader of Westminster Council.

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@simonharley Here they are:

https://t.co/8jrR7naG9y

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@semperadiuvans @cath_cov I think the issue is that the episcopal consecration of the chrism preserves the connection.

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@semperadiuvans @cath_cov No, none.

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@semperadiuvans @cath_cov Don’t know. Probably. Anglican confirmation also lapsed in the Channel Islands, until the 1830s.

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@HandMissals This was preserved in the English Books of Common Prayer - the couple went up to ‘The Lord’s Table’ from the ‘body’ of the Church. Communion was compulsory until 1645. This may have helped preserve rood screens and chancels.

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@cath_cov Thank you. Did the bishops confirm all those pre-Independence communicants, or was it just left?

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@cath_cov Did any Anglicans in colonial Virginia ever express any concern about the want of Confirmation?

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@Rgt71Robert British University management is such a roaring success, at the moment.

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@MadsDavies @DrFrancisYoung @WalkerMarcus Everyone seems jolly pleased with the Duke of Richmond and Gordon here:

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@andrewpconnell @northumbriana @william_whyte @wabbey My father was given his mother’s maiden name as a second Christian name, in 1934.

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@BruvverEccles @william_whyte @wabbey But was he actually called that?

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@northumbriana @william_whyte @wabbey Oh that’s intriguing. Thank you.

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@northumbriana @william_whyte @wabbey Yes indeed! But he’s a very curious case as the Bonar sort of migrated into his surname - Mr Bonar Law.