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Assistant Curate of Bro Deiniol | Minor Canon of St Deiniol’s Cathedral in Bangor @cadeirlan | St Stephen’s House, Oxford | Bell Ringer | Musician | she/her

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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
16 days
Just a glimpse of today’s indescribable joy
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Josie Godfrey
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Well, this has certainly brought out the best and worst of Christianity, in a rather overwhelming way. Thank you so much to everyone who has sent supportive messages and comments over the past two days
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Josie Godfrey
16 days
Just a glimpse of today’s indescribable joy
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
15 days
The greatest joy and privilege to preside at the Eucharist this morning. “May the love of Jesus Christ draw you to himself, may his power strengthen you in his service, and may his joy fill your hearts”
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
Hodge relaxing in his cathedral @Southwarkcathed @HodgeTheCat
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 years
I’m loving the addition to this sign
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
15 days
Saddened to see from yesterday’s tweet that some people are so angered by joy. For those that are not, please do join us @cadeirlan online or in person this morning, as I preside at the Eucharist for the first time -
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
13 days
Since I've accidentally generated some interest in the vestments at Bangor Cathedral @Cadeirlan , let me tell you a bit about them (1/4)
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
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I should be at Mass now, being ashed. Instead I’m in A&E, waiting to find out what damage Covid has done to my lungs. Prayers would be appreciated, please.
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Josie Godfrey
10 days
This was such a beautiful moment!
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
9 days
Preparing for a sort of second First Mass tomorrow morning - my first time presiding in Welsh!
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Josie Godfrey
11 days
Now that my notifications have calmed down and I can open this app without my phone crashing(!), I’d like to offer some support to any of the newly-ordained clergy who have received abuse on this platform over the past few days
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
I think @HodgeTheCat might want to get into the sacristy
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
15 days
To all who love to criticise @ssh_oxford , this is the mutual flourishing that we are taught there.
@calvinrobinson
Fr Calvin Robinson
15 days
Catholic Twitter needs to take a break. These photographs mark the happiest day in Josie’s life. She chose to serve God in a way her Church allows. To those Catholics who would tweet “come home” and think it sufficient: if you truly want to evangelise, try living in Christ.
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
Saying ‘for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church’ during evensong in a chapel mostly full of men is quite fun. Especially with my hair in plaits.
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
14 days
I’m sorry not to have replied to everyone individually, but please know that your love and care is deeply appreciated, and your kindness has an infinitely greater impact than any of the hateful comments.
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
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From the ridiculous to the sublime - totally surreal to have been on @BBCRadio4 @BBCR4Sunday this morning, speaking about the hate female clergy have faced online. Now off to celebrate the Welsh Eucharist @cadeirlan !
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Josie Godfrey
14 days
I believe that I am called, and I know that I am supported.
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Josie Godfrey
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The cut of the chasubles was chosen, in part, to be inclusive of a diverse clergy team at the Cathedral (4/4)
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
I’m currently at a large event with a ‘church’ tent, where I’ve been sitting at a table on my own drinking coffee for 20 minutes, while all of the chaplains have completely ignored me in favour of all the older people who have come in.
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Josie Godfrey
2 months
Habemus episcopum!
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Josie Godfrey
13 days
They’re called the Gwynedd Vestments, and are the first vestments commissioned by the Cathedral in 45 years (2/4)
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Josie Godfrey
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They have the shields of some of the houses of Gwynedd in the Age of the Princes, associated with the diocese through their inclusion in the Cathedral’s Quire stalls (3/4)
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
There’s obviously no way to tell that I’m an ordinand, so I could be any young person who has wandered in, in search of someone to talk to. How can we claim that the church is actively trying to connect with younger people when they are ignored like this?
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
11 days
Because my post attracted so many derogatory comments, I also received a huge number of incredibly kind and affirming messages, whereas I’m aware that many people who received a smaller, but equally unacceptable, amount of abuse may not have received the same level of support
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
‘Can you go to the high altar and find me a legal Eucharistic prayer?’ is the best thing I’ve ever had urgently whispered to me during Mass
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
1 year
Retreat time now, so I’ll be off Twitter for the next few days. Prayers would be hugely appreciated. See you on the other side!
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Josie Godfrey
11 days
I know that receiving even one abusive comment can be incredibly upsetting. I’d recommend letting your TI/Bishop etc. know - if they’re not on social media they might not find out, and won’t be able to support you. My DMs are also open if anyone wants to chat or share experiences
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 years
For anyone thinking that getting a booster will be too difficult or complicated, I was having dinner opposite a pharmacy and just got my booster between my starter and my main
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Josie Godfrey
1 year
On this Eve of the Annunciation, I’m delighted to be able to share an announcement of my own: I will soon be moving to North Wales to serve my curacy in Bro Deiniol. God willing, I will be ordained deacon in Bangor Cathedral on Saturday 1st July 2023
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
I have covid again. On the plus side, @2D0XPS has drawn a plague cross on my door
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Josie Godfrey
5 months
Those who pray: prayers would be appreciated this afternoon, as I baptise for the first time
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Josie Godfrey
1 year
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8 months
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Parishioner: Why do we need a faculty to repair the roof? Vicar: It’s making a big change to the fabric of the building. Parishioner: It would make a bigger change to the fabric of the building if the roof had a hole in it…
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 months
I’m delighted to share my ember card for my ordination to the priesthood this Petertide! Please pray for me, and for the people whom I continue to serve. I will preside at the Eucharist for the first time at 11am on Sunday 30th June, at the Cathedral.
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Josie Godfrey
13 days
I’m grateful that our Neri cut chasubles are indeed part of the liturgical culture at the Cathedral @cadeirlan - worn at the Eucharist every day!
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Lucy Shaw
14 days
It suggests that this use of a Roman chasuble is not part of an established liturgical culture. Perhaps we should be grateful for that. /End
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 years
On proofreading an essay, I have discovered that I have written about ‘the Lettuce of St Paul to the Romans’
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
1 year
I’m not sure that I would have made it to my ordination without @JimFellows1 sorting out all of the last minute logistics and enabling me to have some peace on my retreat. Very grateful for him, and for all who have accompanied me on this journey to ordination
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Jim Fellows
1 year
Of your charity, please pray for my wonderful girlfriend, ordained Deacon today by @ArchbishopWales and the people she is to serve @EsgobaethBangor @sionrhysevans . May St Deiniol and Our Lady of Walsingham pray for her in her ministry.
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
After a lot of tests, it looks like I have an infection - either still covid or another chest infection - but all the other tests were clear and there’s no damage to my lungs! I’m now safely back at home, and resting. Thank you all so much for all the love and prayers
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
I have arrived at @Westcott_House . It’s really very pretty.
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Josie Godfrey
9 months
Exercising my diaconal ministry through the medium of page turning!
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
Apparently @JayHulmePoet likes towers. Who knew?
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Josie Godfrey
1 year
I think I quite like being a curate.
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Josie Godfrey
4 months
No one ever told me that being a deacon is basically just being handed random objects and having to work out what to do with them
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
19 days
Please keep me in your prayers as I prepare to celebrate my first Eucharist, at 11am this Sunday! A livestream will be available on the Cathedral’s YouTube channel
@Cadeirlan
Cadeirlan Deiniol Sant ym Mangor
19 days
Ymunwch â ni yn ein haddoliad y Sul hwn – mae croeso cynnes yn eich disgwyl • Join us for worship this Sunday – a warm welcome awaits you
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Josie Godfrey
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I’m immensely grateful to Dan for this - I’ve never had music written for me before, let alone a musical pun on my title! It’s so wonderful to work with such talented people
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Cadeirlan Deiniol Sant ym Mangor
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@EsgobaethBangor @jcprrr One of our lay clerks, Daniel Pett, wrote a new piece entitled ‘Tu Es Sacerdotes’ as a gift for @Josie_Godfrey on her ordination, even including a canon in a minor key - a minor canon for a Minor Canon!
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Josie Godfrey
13 days
A few more photos from such a wonderful day. Many thanks are due to the Cathedral team @cadeirlan and the Diocesan family @EsgobaethBangor , to my wonderful training incumbent @tracyjanejones , and to @David_T_Morris for ordaining me! #ThisIsWhatAPriestLooksLike
@EsgobaethBangor
Esgobaeth Bangor | The Diocese of Bangor
14 days
📸 Lluniau o wasanaeth ordeinio @Josie_Godfrey Photos from Saturday's ordination service at @Cadeirlan available on our Facebook page
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Josie Godfrey
1 year
Dressed for the weather we want, not the weather we have…
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Josie Godfrey
9 months
Can anyone tell me why the arch and the organ in York Minster are slightly off-centre?
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Josie Godfrey
18 days
I really wish I could learn to keep my hands still while @CommsGuyMatt is filming me
@EsgobaethBangor
Esgobaeth Bangor | The Diocese of Bangor
18 days
🙏 Paratoi ar gyfer Ordeinio gyda'r Parchg Josie Godfrey Ahead of her Ordination service on Saturday, @Josie_Godfrey tells us how she will be preparing this week. Cynhelir y gwasanaeth ordeinio Josie Godfrey ddydd Sadwrn 29 Mehefin yng Nghadeirlan Deiniol Sant ym Mangor.
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Josie Godfrey
15 days
@calvinrobinson Thank you, Fr.
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
‘Would anyone like to say grace?’ Church full of priests: *silence*
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
How it started. How it’s going.
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Josie Godfrey
4 months
“Could you not watch with me one hour?”
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Josie Godfrey
13 days
If you’re enjoying the vestments and would like to see more of them, follow Bangor Cathedral @Cadeirlan !
@Cadeirlan
Cadeirlan Deiniol Sant ym Mangor
13 days
Braf gweld ein urddwisgoedd yn cael cymaint o sylw! • Great to see our vestments getting so much attention!
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Not a bad view for evening prayer
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
(I’m not going to name where I am because I don’t think that’s fair on the clergy and volunteers who are helping here, so please don’t try to guess)
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
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@RevRichardColes This is greatly appreciated, thank you.
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Josie Godfrey
7 months
First year as an official member of #clergymaltclub
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 years
I feel like bell maintenance has strong @JayHulmePoet energy
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
19 days
“Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you”
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Josie Godfrey
4 years
Was anyone else so busy expecting Boris to be late that they missed the start of the announcement?
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Josie Godfrey
1 year
Now is the month…
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
My room for my placement for the next 3 weeks. Apparently the cat comes with it.
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Josie Godfrey
4 years
Christ the Lord is born. Time to celebrate! #ClergyMaltClub
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
It’s taken two and a half years, but I have just successfully printed something from the college printer for the first time. How does one celebrate such an achievement?
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
The only problem with @deansouthwark ’s house is that it has a wonderful view of the wrong cathedral
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Many apologies to @WalkerMarcus and all at St Bart’s - we were trying to turn off the light in the ringing chamber but we think we might have accidentally turned off the organ (and thank you to the very polite verger who came up to turn it back on)
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Josie Godfrey
9 months
There are certainly worse places to say morning prayer.
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Josie Godfrey
20 days
“Let us stand, then, in the interval of our wounding, till the silence turn golden and love is a moment eternally overflowing”
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
@FatherSJMC ‘Do we really need more BCP?’ - Yes.
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
7 days
There are so many exciting things happening at Bangor Cathedral @cadeirlan and across the diocese @esgobaethbangor . I’m really looking forward to this thread, showcasing our excellent music, liturgy, hospitality, Welsh-language provision, and much more
@Cadeirlan
Cadeirlan Deiniol Sant ym Mangor
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It was a joy-filled weekend, and wonderful showcase of the good things we can do, thanks to the hard work of the Cathedral family and Diocesan team @EsgobaethBangor . Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing our favourite moments from the weekend - follow along to find out more!
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
A new deacon!
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
How it started. How it’s going.
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Josie Godfrey
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@JayHulmePoet I was recently on a crowded train where I was standing next to the door to the loo, and every time someone tried to move, I was pushed against the button, the door opened, and everyone fell into the loo
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Josie Godfrey
4 years
We decorated the priest @FatherSJMC
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
Fame at last!
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3 years
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
4 years
Off to @sshoxford to begin training for ordination after a lovely, if somewhat unexpected, 3 weeks being very well looked after by @FatherSJMC
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
3 years
I’ve had the most amazing time at #bossey @Oikoumene , and met some incredible people. I can’t believe it’s over already, but I’m so excited to get back to the UK and share what I’ve learnt about the ecumenical movement
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
There are no pubs in this parish open on Thursdays so we had to improvise #buyapriestabeerday
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
This one is not for BCP fans: Roses are red Violets are blue The Lord be with you...
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
‘The statue is alarmed’ - sorry Mary, did we surprise you?
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Josie Godfrey
6 months
An unexpected guest at evensong tonight!
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
A priest and a deacon walk into a basement…
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Josie Godfrey
2 years
Candle lit at and prayers offered at The Shrine of Our Lady of Fifth Avenue for the start of the new academic year at @ssh_oxford . Praying especially for all new ordinands, and for a fun, formational and successful year for all!
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Not much has changed - still messing around in churches #TenYearChallenge
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
‘Who am I to judge?’ #spiritoftheseminary
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Josie Godfrey
2 months
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me”
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Arguing about liturgy at the end of Leavers’ Day #spiritoftheseminary
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
On 20th May 2020 I submitted my dissertation, having written it without access to a library. To celebrate, I had coffee in my garden with my mum, who I lived with. Compared to what most people are tweeting about what they were doing that day, I was very fortunate.
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Josie Godfrey
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Back in my happy place ❤️
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Peak Anglican
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@Josie_Godfrey
Josie Godfrey
2 years
I’ve just taken over the Twitter account for the Oxford University ringing society - please give it a follow!
@ouscr
OUSCR
2 years
Trinity Term is off to a good start with a well attended practice at Mary Mags! #bellsbellsbells
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
@JayHulmePoet I found this outside a church yesterday
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
St Stephen’s House provides many distractions from essay writing
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Another day, another cat invasion
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Josie Godfrey
3 years
Once more unto the breach…
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Josie Godfrey
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It has taken me most of the day to realise that the reason my shoulders are hurting is because I carried a monstrance in two Corpus Christi processions yesterday #allforJesus
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