Stephen Farrell

Dean of Ossory

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

I read this as ‘when he saw the tobacco’.

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

My dad gave Pope Leo a taste of Louisiana. When he saw the Tabasco, he lit up, “This is very good”

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@CptHastings1916 Enjoy this victory. It is a victory for all the dads with a garage full of assorted boxes of future essentials. Chapeau.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech:
"I'd like to close with a request.
We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction.
We need informed critics who will tell the labs when
we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.
Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot.
Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take.
Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

This is interesting - a legal ruling that the Green Man is a Christian symbol by the consistory court of the Diocese of Gloucester, made in October 2025 https://t.co/zq72l6Ztbn

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Why did the CofE call its prayer app ‘Daily Prayer’ when ‘Click and Collect’ was right there?

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In December, 2018, while visiting St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, David Kenny became hypnotized by an epitaph. Near the south door, he gazed up at a marble plaque bearing the epitaph for Jonathan Swift, the redoubtable novelist, poet, satirist, and former Dean of St. Patrick’s who died in 1745, and who was buried beneath the cathedral floor.

The text of the monument was in Latin and stipulated by Swift himself, in his will. Translations vary, but the most enduring was published in 1933, by William Butler Yeats:

SWIFT has sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.

Kenny had read Swift’s epitaph before, but on that day the lines caught him anew. “I had the strongest sense that there was something going on here that I couldn’t quite understand, and that wasn’t captured by Yeats,” Kenny told Ed Caesar. “The interpretive materials in the cathedral didn’t suggest the possibility of any other reading. The rousing, earnest interpretation taken up by Yeats was clearly the accepted understanding. But, to my ear, it was discordant. . . . Swift had never struck me as boastful. Something felt wrong.”

After seven years of research, Kenny thinks he’s cracked Swift’s true meaning: https://t.co/v8SMEUnhKa

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@MichaelPTKelly Well, aren’t they now dead? Why would people in NI today be given the vote here? Understanding of NI politics here is woeful, only matched by understanding of RoI politics in NI.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@fathergarlick Glorious.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@mjc0ughl4n It’s all to play for

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@_F_B_G_ @Madz_Grant I have one parishioner who will curtsy to the altar and at our Lord’s Christian name in the creed. Wider adoption would be a huge boost to the quiet revival.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@WalkerMarcus

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@WalkerMarcus Sounds Irish

[Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah]

Christ is risen! Alleluia.

The Risen Christ stands beside you, calling your name and inviting you into the resurrection life.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@MichaelPTKelly That’s a really sad story. Had a lovely slice of simnel cake with the choir yesterday with home made hot cross buns. Have a leg of lamb ready for tomorrow. I tend to think of these as being particularly associated with passiontide and Easter.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

“Had he died in a more merciful, less deliberately dehumanising way, it would not be possible to see in his death the sum of all horrors.”

@flemingrut on the theological implications of the fact that Jesus was not just executed, but crucified.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@Madz_Grant Our children wouldn’t wake us as we would find them something to do. That said, I tend to wake long before they do so it’s a moot point.

[Fleming Rutledge @flemingrut]

Nothing--I think I mean that literally--compares with Holy Week to ground the Christian. Faithful attendance each day at some sort of gathering, however simple, however poorly attended, will make it work. Each day, with its appointed readings, is a dose of unfiltered gospel.

[Fleming Rutledge @flemingrut]

Palm Sunday. To my mind, it's the day that has it all, so to speak--triumph and panoply in the first part of the service with everybody on their feet singing "All glory, laud, and honor," then the full Passion narrative, then "Ah Holy Jesus" and absolute silence at the end.

[Stephen Farrell @Stephenafarrell]

@gerrylynch I can only add that I have seen several of the red variant in and around Kilkenny City in recent months but no greys.