College
College has been going decently well. There is not much to complain about. Thankfully I have fully finished my work experiance. This means that I have now both Tuesday and Wednesday off! So I have a lot more freetime just to be myself.
On these two days which I have off I will mainly be staying home. However, once I get DBS checked by the church on Wednesday i will be doing Morning prayer at my church which I am excited for! I love the book of common prayer so much! Then after holding morning prayer it is off to another church to have midweek communion. I am so happy that I have Wednesday off.
Ontop of having two days off and (hopefully) being able to do morning prayer, I will also be given keys to my church which is awesome! I may just sneak in there (with permission) just to be in silents for a while or read some scrpture. Or anything really.
Friends / social
Thankfully as of late I have been able to become happy with the friends that I have. I am thankful for all my friends. However, so of them are going through a rough time I try my best to be there for them.
Romantically I believe I have found someone. I do not want to talk on it much publically. But she makes me really happy and I am lucky to have found someone. She matches my weird at times. She is totally out of my league too so I have struck gold! I am sorry to all my stalkers and fangirls.
Religion
Since my last post I have found a new devotional which I love. It is called the Anglican Breviary. However sadly I need to use a website to pray it, because they only sell physical copies of the Breviary in America. Furthermore I only use the Low Anglican Breviary, since theologically I do not align with the Anglo-Catholics.
Hours of prayer
I have slighty changed the hours to fit better with my schedule. When I am at College or outside I still do the office. I just open my phone and I read through the service and say it.
- Matins or Midnight Prayer (I do with Lauds)
- Lauds or Dawn Prayer (4:30 ~ AM)
- Prime or Early Morning Prayer (6 AM)
- Morning prayer (7AM)
- Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (9 AM)
- Sext or Midday Prayer (Noon 12)
- None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (3 pm)
- Vespers or Evening Prayer (6 pm)
- Evening Prayer BCP (7pm)
- Compline or Night Prayer (Beofre sleep 9PM~)
Lichfield pilgramiage
This Saturday (17-10-2026), me and some of my friends from church are going on a little pilgramiage to Lichfield Cathedral! We are having some issues with UBER, but hopefully those issues can be fixed quicky. I do rather look forward to going to Lichfield, because that blessed city is like heaven on earth. I look forward to praying in the cathedral again, and hopefully attending the Eucharist which is at 12:30. When I pray there I will pray for the election of the new 100th Bishop of Lichfield, that he may be a good sheapard to his people in this dioses of Lichfield.
We are not only going to the Cathedral, but we are going all over Lichfield. I do hope that it is a good holy day. I am unsure if I will be able to keep to my offices when I am there. But hopefully I can sneak off in private when possible and do the offices. THey do not take too long. However, if that is not possible I will listen to the Psalms audibly in my earphones when appropriate.
Books
Sadly I have not been able to read as much as I would have liked these last few months. But I have read a through, which you can see below
Books I have read this month
- Tao Te Ching (道德經) - The reason why I read this is because my partner suggested it
- 39 Articles of religion BCP - I normally read this nearly weeky. But I may as well add this to the list to make me look smarter
- A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift) - It was a decent read. I think it would be funnier if I lived during that time
- I have no mouth, I must scream (Harlan Ellison) - Again this was recommended by my partner, but I have wanted to read the book for a while
Books I want to read
- Essential Judaism (George Robinson) - It is a decent overview of modern Rabbonic Judaism. I am curious about modern Jewish practicies, so that is why I have purchased the book.
- Gospel of Saint John - I have read the Gospel of saint John before. But, me and my friend have been doing a study of that testoment. So becoming more familiar with it would be useful.
- John for everyone (N.T. Write) - Same reason as above
- The Rabbi Jesus - To learn mroe of the Jewish side of Jesus
The future
I look forward to the future. Now that I have more free time I can spend more time serving the church. And I can be more dedicated to my faith. Furthermore, as mentioned I am going to start doing morninig prayer weekly on Wednesday, which is awesome! I do plan to expand morning prayer from Wednesday to basically daily. Also if I am given keys to the church, that means that on a Sunday I can arrive really early and have everything set out ready. Meaning that I can make more time before service to pray, and perhaps even do a little BCP service.
When I am 18 I hope to start my discerment process, so that I can be educated to become a priest. I do not look forward to seven to eight years more of education. But in the end it will be worth it. I want to be a Priest in Christ's true Church and server his people as he served us.
I wish I could just time skip to that point. I know God wants me there. I know it will take time. But right not doing computing in college is tiring, because I do not want to do this when I am older. Sure I have learned soem bits and have made friends. But ultimatelly I wish I took some form of theology cource. Curse younger me.
Conclusion
Well that is all that I have on my mind as of now. The next post should be of Lichfield. I will take a good few photos. I will also probably mix photos I have took before. In my life I have went there three times, but I have only partook in one service. if I lived in Lichfield I would go to the services Daily.