Fr Luke is currently the Archdeacon of Chichester.  He trained for ministry at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield.  He served his title at Abertillery with Cwmtillery and Six Bells, Monmouth and, in 2000, was ordained Priest. In 2001 Luke was appointed Minor Canon at St Woolos Cathedral, Newport. From 2003 he served as Rector of St Dunstan with Holy Angels, Cranford, in the Diocese of London and, in 2008, was appointed Vicar of St Gabriel, Pimlico. From 2013 Luke served as Priest-in-Charge and then Rector of Christ Church, St Mary Magdalen and St Peter & St Paul, St Leonards on Sea in the Diocese of Chichester, serving in addition as Priest-in-Charge of St Clement and All Saints, Hastings. In 2019 he took up his current role as Archdeacon of Chichester.

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“I am deeply humbled to have been called to serve as the next Bishop of Richborough."

Chichester Archdeacon Luke Irvine-Capel will be the new Suffragan Bishop of Richborough, succeeding Bishop Norman Banks.

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— The Church of England (@churchofengland) December 10, 2024

From the American West to eastern China, more than three-quarters of Earth’s land became persistently drier in recent decades, according to a new United Nations report that called the shift a “global, existential peril.”

Industrial emissions of planet-warming gases were a major culprit, the report said. If nations don’t stop the rise in temperatures, the drying is likely to expose more places to sand and dust storms, wildfires, water shortages, crop failures and desertification.

The report was released on Monday at a U.N. summit taking place this month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where nations are discussing how to stop more habitable surfaces from turning into barren wastelands.

Nearly one in three people live in moisture-deprived areas, up from one in five in 1990, the report said.

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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says. Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/5tA08aJuun

— Andrew Hoffman (@HoffmanAndy) December 9, 2024

Almighty God, source of justice beyond human knowledge: We offer thanks that thou didst inspire Karl Barth to resist tyranny and exalt thy saving grace, without which we cannot apprehend thy will. Teach us, like him, to live by faith, and even in chaotic and perilous times to perceive the light of thy eternal glory, Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who livest and reignest with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, throughout all ages. Amen.

Karl Barth: 'The fact that God is revealed to us is then grace. Grace is the majesty, the freedom, the undeservedness, the unexpectedness, the newness, the arbitrariness, in which the relationship to God+therefore the possibility of knowing Him is opened up to man by God Himself' pic.twitter.com/wJEVQ3e1oQ

— Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) August 18, 2021

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”

–Thomas Merton, Thoughts In Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1956), p.113

"In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must go out of myself, and in order to live I have to die." Thomas Merton @MertonDaily #contemplation #centeringprayer pic.twitter.com/jhYbj7WsU2

— Michael John Cusick (@michaeljcusick) April 6, 2018

Gracious God, who didst call thy monk Thomas Merton to proclaim thy justice out of silence, and moved him in his contemplative writings to perceive and value Christ at work in the faiths of others: Keep us, like him, steadfast in the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ; who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Love is not something that happens to you. It is a certain special way of being alive.

Thomas Merton
born #OTD 1915 in Prades, France. pic.twitter.com/CPR1gTCAiP

— Joyce (@joycebudenberg) January 31, 2022

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

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📍 The Long Water, Kensington Gardens

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— The Royal Parks (@theroyalparks) December 10, 2024

Vindicate me, O Lord,
    for I have walked in my integrity,
    and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
Prove me, O Lord, and try me;
    test my heart and my mind.
 For thy steadfast love is before my eyes,
    and I walk in faithfulness to thee.

–Psalm 26:1-3

Morning everyone I hope you are well. A walk along Pasture Beck towards Thornthwaite Crag and the light. Have a great day.#LakeDistrict@keswickbootco pic.twitter.com/yMPM3zSvFr

— Rod Hutchinson (@lakesrhino) December 10, 2024