I understand that the King asked for this poem by ⁦@malcolmguite⁩ to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas. Tweet added by OurCofELike @OurCofELike

OurCofELike

2 years

I understand that the King asked for this poem by ⁦ @malcolmguite ⁩ to be read at the Royal Carol Service. It deserves to be read everywhere this Christmas.

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Malcolm Guite

@malcolmguite

2 years

@OurCofELike Thanks

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Not a normal vicar 💙 💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ♿ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@Revdavidgray

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Thank you for sharing that.

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Seb Falk

@Seb_Falk

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite This lives rent-free in my head. @owainpark , any chance of a setting?

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Lord Godolphin

@EarlGodolphin

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite

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Sam Batstone 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🕷

@SamJaneBastone

2 years

@OurCofELike @_Tim_Ashton @malcolmguite Speaks even to a humanist as me

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Charlie Pharis

@charphar

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Thank you for your words, in this one and all the others. And as a bonus, I could listen to Kristin Scott Thomas read the phone book!

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Matthew J. Milliner

@millinerd

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite sounds like an exact description of the #VirginofthePassion ! #MotheroftheLamb

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Revd Dr Brenda Wallace SCP

@BrendaW36187388

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite It's one of my favourites of @malcolmguite . It's awesome that Charles is aware of it and has asked for it.

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Ernest Fasanya

@ernest_fasanya

2 years

@OurCofELike @RoryStewartUK @malcolmguite Excellent choice by HM The King: I especially like the way the poem subtly suggests that tension between eternal recurrence (every Herod) and eschatology. Won't say much more about people today, as even Twitter has its Herods.

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Jose is the new Machismo

@DaveSancho3

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite So when does the King announce the sale of some of his lands to help feed and shelter the poor?

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Martin Clark

@martin_clark1

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Republican atheist philistine, …. but… 👍

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Lisa Pettifer 🌈

@Lisa7Pettifer

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Beautiful. And thank you for sorting my Y11 English lesson for Monday ❤️

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Charlotte Edyvean

@CEdyvean

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Someone should send this poem to the dreadful Suella Braverman! I'm not a christian but found this very moving.

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Douglas Thomson

@doug1as85

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Honestly it’s things like this which make me think Charles III is really going to subtly push the monarchy into something we can actually appreciate

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Liz Lawley

@LizLawley2

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite I am no royalist but wonderful poem and choice that sends a much needed message

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ourladyofgoodcounsel

@ourladyofgoodc1

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Thinking of the news from Ukraine this morning: more destruction of key services; people fleeing underground in the cold.

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Miles Harvey

@eCommencal

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Nice one, Malcolm. Well done Charles.

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Natalie Ⓥ

@natstar7777

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite Wow that’s beautiful. It’s as if you can feel the fleeing and turmoil. Really struck a chord with me and I’m not a believer

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St John's Church at Kensal Green

@StKensal

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite it has been added to our Carol Service tomorrow

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@dtg581

2 years

@OurCofELike @malcolmguite And there's another country, I've heard of long ago, Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; We may not count her armies, we may not see her King; Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering…

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