Paula Clifford 🇺🇦

Anglican priest & academic, europhile & football fan. “Tuscany’s Noble Treasures”, on female religious life in medieval Italy.

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

@Bernard_Minier One of my favourites is Soeurs, yet I’ve never seen it translated into English. Is that even possible?

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I’ve just discovered Lireka (great name) - a French online book store that sends books free of charge worldwide. The latest Bernard Minier thriller ‘H’ reached me in deepest Oxfordshire in just a few days. Merci @Bernard_Minier

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Trying out Bluesky. No followers, no following feels like a long haul.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

'It is leave - or remain, and I'm for leave'

Tory leadership hopeful @RobertJenrick says the UK must leave the European Convention on Human Rights

If UK news shows won’t call these lunatics out we must do it ourselves

If you oppose joining Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR RT

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

Pleased to be preaching on the football lover's Bible reading, fortuitously set for tomorrow: "Whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please the Lord". 🇷🇸 🇬🇧

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@PilgrimProdigal Some early "mystics" were pretty bonkers (I've researched some of the Italian ones) and most weren't writers. Maybe CW wants to create a distance from them, which imo is a bit sad!

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@PilgrimProdigal @churchofengland Find out all you can about non-parochial ministry (eg chaplaincy work). Too often people overseeing discernment and training processes assume we're all called to be vicars.

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@theabingdontaxi Oh no! So sorry ...

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Hi @Specsavers. Just want to say that the young people* who examined my eyes yesterday at your Kidlington branch were brilliant, thank you.

*To my old eyes they looked about 12 but probably weren't

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

Pizza night

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@purgstallheath Where I trained it was the Cuddesdon stone

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

@Mad_Pieman @theabingdontaxi Banns are normally read in the 6 to 3 weeks ir so before the wedding. If he moves before that he will need to get them read in the new parish church. Its his responsibility to do that, not the church's.

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

Lucia vient d'arriver chez moi à Oxford, grâce à https://t.co/eBD7NXvbNs! Mille mercis @Bernard_Minier

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@theabingdontaxi @Conecclesia I've heard several people refer to traffic cones as bollards recently and was even asked to put out a bollard to ensure room for a hearse. I think not!

[Paula Clifford 🇺🇦 @pm_clifford]

@DavidGnzalez_ @merylulu_ And this is my Spanish cat (now in the UK).

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@annemcelvoy I don't quite understand the point that you're making = I understand perfectly well and I think it's rubbish

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@Grenaby Probably not, but still not something I would have wanted Kidlington folk to hear at 6am!

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Yesterday our holy fire got a bit out of control as I tried to light the paschal candle from it. Sincere apologies to anyone offended by my language and thank you to those who laughed.

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Its 20 years since I last sat on an organ seat but yesterday I played hymns for the Eucharist I presided at. A happy congregation even if a few alleluias short of perfection.

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@OurCofELike Here's my young lab Winnie