Prayer request

My darling fiance is at his Bishops Advisory Panel today and will be until tomorrow afternoon. The bishop's advisory panel is the final stage in getting approved for training for ordination and if he is approved he'll be starting ordination training in September.

Please pray that the panel recognise Alec's vocation.

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I read it on a blog so it must be true. I thought some of my readers would be amused to hear that Thomas More is the patron saint of civil servants*.

*and adopted children, diocese of Arlington, Virginia, court clerks, difficult marriages, large families, lawyers, diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee Florida, politicians, politicos, statesmen, step-parents, widowers. My he must be a busy saint.

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I've realised that most of my friends are religious. This trend is increasing, whilst I have lots of non-religious friends from school and my undergraduate degree almost all of the friends I've made since I started my graduate studies have been religious, and that isn't just because J soc is the main place I meet new people because my main new college friends are religious too. I seem to be increasingly attracted to religious people (good job I'm marrying a (hopefully) future vicar). I'm not sure why this is. I think religious people have this something about them, a concern for something bigger than themselves, a skepticism about untamed individualism, and a belief that the first thing to make the world a better place is to try to not be a arsehole themselves. There are non-religious folk who have these qualities* and I'm sure there are plenty of religious people who lack them. Hmm, I'm not sure.

*feanelwa jumps to mind but she's started going to the UU church so I'm not sure if she counts anymore.