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Rev Giles Fraser

Rev Dr Giles Fraser supported the those at the protest camp outside St Paul's Cathedral this week. He turned away police from the cathedral steps, saying that the cathedral didn't need that sort of guarding. I have shown him here sheltering the needy.

Giles Frase info from the Guardian

The Archbishop Gets Sad Sometimes

Sometimes the Archbishop of Canterbury gets sad. He gets sad when he has to wave goodbye to his favourite kitten, who has grown up and gets on a train to London to assert teh indipendance and maybe get to interview the Queen. Instead kitten-now-grown ends up working as a Sales Advisor in Boots, but only part-time 'cause it can't reach the high shelves. David Cameron cuts income support for kittehs 'cause he doesn't think that being born cat is a good enough reason for welfare benefits. The Archbishop of Canterbury is sad about this too. He hopes kitten-now-grown will come home some day. Kitten would be welcomed with open arms, but wouldn't be petted too much if kitten wasn't feeling like it. If you see kitten, please tell.

The Archbishop likes a Jammy Dodger

"Mindful of how crappy 2012 is likely to be (Synod will have to debate something called the Anglican Covenant which sounds awful but is quite important and takes its final vote on women bishops) there are lots of breaks in this meeting for prayer, reflection and biscuits."
  - from the Guardian's live blog on the Church of England's General Synod, Saturday 9th July 2011, by Riazat Butt.

 The Jammy Dodger has in fact been proven (by me, to myself) to be the holiest of biscuits. To be sure, doesn't the plain biscuit represent the plain peasant-body of our Lord and the jam his blood? It Ireland, I hear, it is known as the Eucharist Biscuit and is often eaten during mass, whenever they run out of bread or the congregation is composed of diabetics with dangerously low blood sugar. The jammy heart embodies Jesus' command for us to 'love one another': for that heart shows that the Jammy Dodger loves its fellow biscuits, even though the other biscuits dent the Dodger and rough him up in the tin. The Dodger is a crumbly type and, once away from its cardboard cocoon, easily tainted by the other stronger biscuits. As indeed, each of us is susceptible to sin and temptation. Amen.

Archbishop in the Rain

God cries and Archbishop gets wet. And while waiting for a bus, no less. Sad times. Archbishop feels like nobody loves him. But then remembers he is Archbishop and that is blasphemous.

Archbishop climbs pole to save kitten from the Nazi bird.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Hugs a Lion

The lion is overwhelmed by the love.