Des trains de Kings Cross sont niqué ce matin. Le-mien a annulé, et plusieurs d'autres sont en retard. Heureusement, j’ai pu trouver une alternative qui me permettra d’arriver presque à temps (autant que n'aille mal plus).
J'ai passé un weekend assez tranquil, dont j'ai eu besoin. Vendredi soir j'ai revenu chez moi à Londres assez tard, et ai vite cuisiné le dîner pour
robert_jones et moi. (
obandsoller etait trop somenulant de nous rejoint). Le samedi je m'ai levé tard, et puis suis allé à l'église locale catholique romaine, pour une service de prière pour l’unité des chrétiens. Il y avait assez beaucoup des gens là, mais je pense que j’ai été la seul personne qui ai venu d’une autre église. Le prêtre me demander de lire une prière durant la service, qui me faire sentir bienvenu, mais puis quand il parlait sur les conflits du temps passé entre les catholiques et les protestants, il a continué de me regarder, et j’ai dû asseoir sur les mains, et résister la tentation de signaler que je suis catholique, même si pas romaine.
Après la service, j’ai retrouvé
mrph et nous avons déjeuné à Dilara Uyghar. Nous avon mangé les petits kebabs d’agneau épicé qui sont mon plat préféré de cuisine Uyghar, et les pieds d’agneau qui nous avons aimé beaucoup, bien que ils ne soient pas peut-être pour tout le monde. Cette soirée j’ai aidé
obandsoller colorer ses cheveux. C’est turquoise maintenant, et ça le va très bien.
Dimanche matin je suis allé à l’église comme d’habitude. Nous avons eu la pénultième répétition du choeur avant la performance la semaine prochaine, et ça s’est allé bien. Je crois que nous ferons un vrai bon travail après une répétition de plus. Après la messe, je suis allé courir, autour de Ally Pally et le long de la vieille ligne de chemin de fer à Finsbury Park, et rentrer chez moi. Puis j’ai cuisiné encore, puis je suis passé la reste de l’après midi dans la baignoire, et ai fait un peu de tricoter le soir.
Ça m’arrive que si c’est qui je décris comme un weekend tranquil, il pouvrait mieux de ne demander pas quoi ressembler un chargé!
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The trains out of Kings Cross are fucked. Mine was cancelled and several others are running late. Fortunately I was able to find an alternative which will allow me to arrive almost on time (as long as nothing else goes wrong).
I had a fairly quiet weekend, which I needed. On Friday evening I got back home to London quite late, and quickly cooked dinner for me and Robert (Ramesh was too sleepy to join us). On Saturday I had a lie in, and then went to the local Roman Catholic church for a service of Prayer for Christian Unity. There were quite a lot of people there, but I think I was the only person from another church. The priest asked me to read a prayer during the service, which made me feel welcome, but then when he was speaking about past conflicts between catholics and protestants he kept looking at me, and I had to sit on my hands and resist the temptation to point out that I am Catholic, albeit not Roman!
After the service I met up with James, and we had lunch at Dilara Uyghar. We ate the little spicy lamb kebabs, which are my favourite Uyghar dish, and lambs feet, which we liked very much, although they perhaps aren’t for everyone. That evening I helped Ramesh dye his hair. It’s now turquoise, and it looks very good on him.
On Sunday morning I went to church as usual. We had our penultimate choir rehearsal before the performance next week and it went very well. I think we’ll do a really good job after one more rehearsal. After Mass I went for a run - around Ally Pally and along the old railway line to Finsbury Park, then home again. Then I cooked again, then spent the rest of the afternoon in the bath, and did a bit of knitting in the evening.
It occurs to me that if this is what I describe as a quiet weekend, it might be better not to ask what a busy one looks like!
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Dimanche matin je suis allé à l’église comme d’habitude. Nous avons eu la pénultième répétition du choeur avant la performance la semaine prochaine, et ça s’est allé bien. Je crois que nous ferons un vrai bon travail après une répétition de plus. Après la messe, je suis allé courir, autour de Ally Pally et le long de la vieille ligne de chemin de fer à Finsbury Park, et rentrer chez moi. Puis j’ai cuisiné encore, puis je suis passé la reste de l’après midi dans la baignoire, et ai fait un peu de tricoter le soir.
Ça m’arrive que si c’est qui je décris comme un weekend tranquil, il pouvrait mieux de ne demander pas quoi ressembler un chargé!
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The trains out of Kings Cross are fucked. Mine was cancelled and several others are running late. Fortunately I was able to find an alternative which will allow me to arrive almost on time (as long as nothing else goes wrong).
I had a fairly quiet weekend, which I needed. On Friday evening I got back home to London quite late, and quickly cooked dinner for me and Robert (Ramesh was too sleepy to join us). On Saturday I had a lie in, and then went to the local Roman Catholic church for a service of Prayer for Christian Unity. There were quite a lot of people there, but I think I was the only person from another church. The priest asked me to read a prayer during the service, which made me feel welcome, but then when he was speaking about past conflicts between catholics and protestants he kept looking at me, and I had to sit on my hands and resist the temptation to point out that I am Catholic, albeit not Roman!
After the service I met up with James, and we had lunch at Dilara Uyghar. We ate the little spicy lamb kebabs, which are my favourite Uyghar dish, and lambs feet, which we liked very much, although they perhaps aren’t for everyone. That evening I helped Ramesh dye his hair. It’s now turquoise, and it looks very good on him.
On Sunday morning I went to church as usual. We had our penultimate choir rehearsal before the performance next week and it went very well. I think we’ll do a really good job after one more rehearsal. After Mass I went for a run - around Ally Pally and along the old railway line to Finsbury Park, then home again. Then I cooked again, then spent the rest of the afternoon in the bath, and did a bit of knitting in the evening.
It occurs to me that if this is what I describe as a quiet weekend, it might be better not to ask what a busy one looks like!
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Date: 2020-01-27 09:41 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2020-01-27 03:47 pm (UTC)From:You've left me feeling curious about where the dividing line falls between Roman/Anglo now. What's the difference?
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Date: 2020-01-28 06:20 pm (UTC)From:The dividing line between Roman and Anglican Catholics is fairly easy to draw, because the churches have completely seperate hierarchies (ish - most Anglicans recognise Roman priests and bishops as such, but we don't accord the Bishop of Rome any more sovereignty than any other). The line between Catholics and Protestants in the Anglican communion is much blurrier, and as
For me personally the key thing that unites me with Rome and separates me from protestants is my sacramental theology. I believe that I literally consume Christ's body and blood when I partake of the Eucharist, that God did something real and external to me baptism and my marriage, and does so every time I avail myself of the sacrament of penance. Most of the other differences are down to interpretation or matters of taste, but the sacraments are absolutely central to my life in God.
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Date: 2020-01-27 06:02 pm (UTC)From:The incense found in Pusey House and the Super-ridiculous-Tridentine mass lot are showing the lie, while the Tridentine lot are busy saying that the Anglo-Catholics Are Wrong.