Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM.

Minister, musician, lately canon lawyer. Wannabe Renaissance man. Proud to be Rector of Newton Heath, and sometime Minor Canon of Manchester Cathedral.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@MichaelSadgrove Seven of us from Newton Heath, All Saints, Manchester, will attend mass on Monday. All shall be well. Norwich was my home 0-19.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@fathereddy It's thrilling to see what young people can achieve given generous, focussed resources. Ergo, whichever way, fund state schools generously to improve choice for the JAMS - just about managing school-fees. The excellent, liberal state education 1975-81 I enjoyed is all but gone.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Physics captures only highly abstract mathematizable features of matter & AI captures only highly abstract formalizable features of mind. Each is like a blueprint of a house rather than the real thing. Yet much of the intelligentsia thinks this blueprint is what they’re living in

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@fanofprincephil @vickz_1990 Yes.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@FrPaulHutchins @CHFfailsworth @DioManchester @BishManchester @BishMiddleton @archmanchester1 @helen_scanlan @frlewisohf Chateau Sainte Famille sounds rather appealing. Congratulations.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@OSacrumCorIesu Ooer, does this depend upon from which side or end of the bed one arises day by day?

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

Twenty-three years a Deacon and twenty-two years a priest. Lincoln Cathedral, where I was Hon Priest-Vicar for ten years, during my times in Louth and Boston, four months of that, oddly, as a Deacon! Laus Deo.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@AliCampbell_68 @Donsayers Sure, but there are other instances of 'office holders' who are. The 'office holder' ruse is an increasingly shaky defence a propos The CofE and Employment Law.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@Liturgy Wishful thinking, and maybe a tad facetious, but maybe the Most Reverend Prelate ought to reorientate his views and biretta through 180 degrees.

[Kim M Jones @KimMJones10]

Another lovely final #morethansunday session this evening at All Saints Newton Heath. Great to hear about small changes being made in church life to support faith throughout the week. And fab hospitality and cake from fr Andrew and fr Chris! 🎂
@ManDioGF_PM @DioManchester

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

My garden is giving me contentment. Time for planting out. I must be getting old or growing up, or both. #garden #Voltaire

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@fathereddy @WalkerMarcus @TheCriticMag @StBartholomews Ecclesial vs ecclesiastical. Nicely nuanced. However its legal architecture in terms of buildings, land and patronage speak of a continuity not entirely severed by the reformations in England.

[Alison Hardy @alijhardy]

Wonderful woman of stature and sense.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@deanroggovender Terrific service with a very broad and distinguished supporting cast. A joy to be there. Lays Deo.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@vlavla Candlemas, 2nd February at the end of the forty day feast of Christmas and Epiphany. All very twinkly in the Rectory.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@JohnForbes_JFC @SirJJKC Ah, the Order of the Bath, just before you order your valet to run one.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@AndreaSJones Cheers! More out of candour than concern for your health I simply said yours was a bold choice of pic, but your inference remains within the bounds of tolerable inference! If I were to take a selfie now......

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@ctrnmorr @SchoolboyOwn @Canonjjohn @thetimes Seasons greetings. Throw another shrimp on the Barbie for me.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@AndreaSJones We moved ours forward an hour to 3.30pm so that people could arrive while it was light. Oddly, it was rammed. We've never had so many at this service before in my 13 Advents and Christmases here.

[Andrew Wickens LL.M, FRSA, ARCM. @wickens08]

@SchoolboyOwn @Canonjjohn @thetimes It's based on my experiences with families of other faiths and none who send their children to (our) church schools in a society which, for now, bases its public holidays on traditions which are in the main Christian - NB the December date for Xmas appropriated from pagan rituals