HMS Gavino Testardo ma

The good ship HMS Gavino is often derided by olde worlde stay at home Anglicans of the old Church of England as a retrograde old battleship of the old line which is too battle hardened and too hoary with damage from her many wars to be of much use to them any more but it is a queen's flagship, but too she soldiers on, quite nice and quite brave, and Antonella and the other girls at home in the Cinque Ports like Arwen and Tauriel and Galadriel and Sagittarius and Cassiopeia and Antares too do actually enjoy her many flags of signals, nice ship. Glad she made it across to the Tiber and got some quality refits to her mainsails, nice.

Sailing with HMS Sarah

The pale good ship HMS "Church of England" has been sailing in some choppy high seas of late, and the more so now that new captains are at the helm of the main flotilla. The HMS Sarah is one example of a fine captain who distinguished herself in main battle commands regarding the pirates of the Caribbean, one thinks of the pirate ship the MV "The Black Pearl" that is appearing more and more near Port Royale, but the whole flotilla of fine galleons of the Church of England is hampered in its progress by the presence among her main ships of a little squint of a ship that advertises itself as the HMS Romana when all she is is a little child abductor called HMS CK Chestleton specifically brought into the Fleets of Napoleon just to embarrass the larger fleets of the English Colleges out there near Rome. She took refuge for some years inside the ports of the harbours of Liboria and La Spezia, but continued child abducting around Roman coasts for some time, even daring to export her activity not only to Rome but also upstairs to the heavenly courts where she routinely abducted christian souls from the pale of salvation for consumption on the tables of her potty visions of hell, hellish her christening, black her consecration, mighty her hubris, evil her activity, absurd her visage - for this ship was uncommonly ugly and was much reviled in the southern waters as HMS Dame Edna with her accoutrement HMS Ven Padre Daventry so disfigured did she look. Her name - CK, her brief, the embarrassment of the Church of England when she was recruited to the 5 divisions and then guaranteed and imported into Roman waters by the colleges out there as a curial official. Never before in the history of Rome were curial officials suddenly now known for child abduction especially of young blonde girls from Portugal, from Lusitanian colleges and even brazenly from the Cornish coastlines, something she had in common with her backers in the Saracen Fleets of the 1453 kind and then the 1570 kind - like the strange ship the HMS Luther she has been forming alliances among the Saracens enemies of the West for some time on the high seas in her dank and fetid waters. HMS Chestleton, a disgrace to the fleets, a disgrace to the ministry, a blight on the priesthood that she never practised except up the Via Nazionale Episcoporum. So HMS Sarah mightily embarrassed at the activities of the 5s at Portus Magnus. Chestelton to be sunk. HMS Sarah can do it. The Bobbio Privilege no longer applies at the English Venerati Divorziati harbours.  To be sunk.

Sue - at 83

Rev Sue at 83 being arrested for holding up banners of a now proscribed organisation. Arrested under the 2000 Terrorism Act. Rightly so. Sorry to be so hard hearted, but one is tempted to say "Repent" like the TV version of Lord Cecil from the series called "Gunpowder." We had this problem only recently in the United States throughout the appalling 1990s, vicars and priests and nuns getting arrested for protesting outside Planned Parenthood clinics, aided and abetted by their legitimate religious superiors and aggravating bishops like cabals of Bishop Tims, calling for political action, and this against girls exercising their right to privacy - some bishops do not read their little green book. Both these nations have delicate Constitutions in place, and one of the stipulations from history, especially one Statute from Henry VIII of 1536, reminds the flocks below such clerics or supporting such clerics that such bishops and clerics are fathers in God, but that correspondingly, be a cause ever so pious or so religious or so ethical in se, even one which is dubious from Chelsea's point of view, no vicar or cleric of the spiritual power should be out there participating in protests of a political nature especially anything involving an exercise of temporal civil or political power. Unconstitutional. In the case of the Planned Parenthood clinic protests of the USA, grown adults tried to suffocate the right of girls to terminate their boyfriends's aggressor sperm inside them when said boyfriends had revealed themselves to be feckless and free beyond reason. Boyfriends paying - bishops silent - when it is the boyfriend that should be excommunicated in catholic thought and not the victim girls, period. Bishops very silent on this issue and very retarded on boys generally. Chelsea Clinton pointed out to the local bishop there in Deep South cheering on such manifest grave sin against victim girls and their renegade nuns and priests, that it was high time that he should read his Bible, since no such prerogatives were ever granted by a compassionate feeling Christ to apostles or prophets, none. If Christ were alive today, she explained, he would be working at one of these clinics and handing out pills to girls, victims of their feckless boyfriends and their dribbling and dreadful and dreary eyed plaint - "Oh I can pay for your termination." Bishops behaving like adolescent schoolboys on a train to Spain in the 1930s. It is feckless and abusive of the clerical state. So too the Rev Sue aged 83 cannot expect leniency from the much pressurised police when she abuses the comforts and protections of the clerical state in protests that are in se "unbecoming to a clerk in holy orders" (EJM 1963, 2000) - she is abusing her good office and the patience of the police in respecting that office, as long as it stays within the constitutional parameters of Magna Carta. The spiritual powers Acts of many Statutes requires some awareness of what a vicar or clericess can and cannot do. It is not enough to post leftwing memes.  

Newies

 New broom at Auntie Over Seas. Seems nice.

Aha - HSPD

HSBC to some people, my favourite bank account, but the acrostic above is HSPD rather like the earlier Christian Jesuit one of INRI, so it is Happy St Patrick's Day from the Real Church of England. Not always our cup of tea was St Patrick as he was very much a romano-romano even though educated in Gaulish France at Auxerre at the Schola of St Germanus. But he was a brave commander. Gifted in the field. Also embarking on the First Crusade into the West, beyond the Edge, beyond Periphery of Empire to the islands that the Druids used to escape to, in the western reaches of the Atlantic. So it is a big day for the believers over there in the blue-green yonder. Nice saint. Like Germanus.

Oh

Bishop Sarah of London has been presiding over services at the Ukrainian Catholic Church there to mark the 3rd Anniversary of the SMO in Ukraine, very nice, she led the public prayers for peace and reconciliation. There was also a nice concert in town too with lots of Ukrainian young people singing some set pieces too. Bishop of Newcastle has also been in the news calling for some changes to official policy of the said Church. All go. Lots going on. Anglican churches are now a gaggle or corpus feministarum for the Ukrainians but the young people are not complaining. 

Acer Doctors

Whatever people feel about the current state of play in the country of the UK, the learned doctors of York and Canterbury, the second one vacant, still remain in praxi autem the Fathers in God to the king and to the prime minister, and this was true even when we had a Buddhist prime minister and a Hindu prime minister, something Lord Hailsham once explained. The two bishops are Fathers in God to the monarch and his family too, and should be consulted on some major serious issues of state, such as the ratification of treaties, like the Chagos Islands, since that was a function of those figures in times past, when the empire was pagan and pluralistic, where the college of priest-judges or pontiffs was responsible for ratifying such treaties and also for the final decision of the Senate to go to war against even minor adversaries. Minor adversaries too.