Denis Keefe
@DenisKeefe
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Former Ambassador 🇷🇸🇬🇪 | 🇨🇿Governor English College in Prague | Trustee Hospices of Hope
England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2014
This is it. After 40 years I am retiring today. I have had a fascinating career and the privilege to work with wonderful people round the world. Thank you to everyone - and above all to @SingenBingen The road goes ever on and on
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When water is everywhere – but there really is not a drop to drink.
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When water is everywhere - but there really is not a drop to drink. When we went to bed, everything was normal; when we got up, the taps didn’t work.
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When water is everywhere – but there really is not a drop to drink. How to cope when the taps run dry, by @SingenBingen with photo by @RuthieGledhill
https://t.co/28pu4X1BuH
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And there was no warning. We’ve lived in countries where the water supply is regularly interrupted, and we can cope with that; you always fill the kettle
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Today we mark the anniversary of the passing of Václav Havel, the president who led Czechia back into the community of free nations and whose name continues to be respected around the world.
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Looking forward to tomorrow? We should be! Here's my latest for @The_Tablet on choosing Advent hymns. Yes, there's no Gloria for four weeks but plenty of Alleluias and rejoicing, so don't let the Advent music be penitential!
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We’re coming to the end of the Church’s year, which means Advent is just around the corner. And planning the Advent music is quite stressful.
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Who's going to be helping in your parish in ten years time? I was thinking about this for volunteers, but of course it's relevant to priests as well. Here's my latest for @The_Tablet on succession planning and what might help
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Every group in the parish is tasked with filling in the answers to an extensive questionnaire about what we have been doing all year and what our plans are.
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My congratulations to Ambassador @ChrisTrott and all @UKinHolySee behind this remarkable and -dread word, but correctly applied here - historic visit.
Following Their Majesties' State Visit to the Holy See yesterday, watch this video capturing the highlights of this truly memorable, wonderful, historic day. 🇬🇧🇻🇦ties stronger.
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The King and Queen have met Pope Leo XIV in the Apostolic Palace, to begin their State Visit to the Holy See. Their Majesties will undertake engagements with Pope Leo XIV in celebration of the 2025 Papal Jubilee. This will include a special ecumenical service in the Sistine
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The King and Queen have arrived for their State Visit to the Holy See. 👉 Swipe to read more about Their Majesties’ previous visits to the Holy See, Vatican City.
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Wonderful Jubliee Mass today at St Augustine’s Church. So lovely to have all our community come together to celebrate… Thank you to all our lovely families who came. @RC_Southwark @rcaoseducation @kcsp_academies
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If he who sings prays twice, it's no wonder that choirs need a summer holiday! Here's my latest for @The_Tablet on the practicalities and some of the problems (and how pleased I am for the choir to be back).
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Mostly we’ve seen each other around on Sundays, of course, except when someone daringly goes to a different Mass, which can feel surprisingly restful. It is
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On #Georgia, its rapid descent into authoritarian rule and the EU's struggle (so far) to respond. My piece today for @Carnegie_Europe with some advice for Brussels: don't punish ordinary people by cancelling visa liberalization🇬🇪
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Since last year’s election, Georgia’s ruling party has rolled back democracy and sabotaged the country’s EU accession process. To avoid penalizing pro-European citizens, the union and its member...
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Nedelja je pravi dan da posetite Lepenski vir, arheološki raj na obali Dunava 📷 https://t.co/R5TPe0Veo2
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Arheolo��ki lokalitet Lepenski Vir, po kome je nazvana čitava praistorijska kultura Đerdapske klisure, otkriven je sasvim slučajno.
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"The first act of the communists after seizing power in Czechoslovakia was to put all those who had exhibited patriotic loyalty on trial for 'treason'. Those who had served so bravely and effectively with the Czech Air Force in the Battle of Britain, for example, were arrested
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Did you ever play snakes and ladders as a child? It's a very moral game, a surprisingly late addition to British childhoods. The whole concept of up and down is rich in reverberations. Here's my latest for @The_Tablet
https://t.co/tSs6xM6zPk
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But I’ve had to walk around with a crutch for the last few months. People have been astonishingly kind over letting me cross the road or giving me a little
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Prečítajte si rozhovor @dennikpostoj s @DenisKeefe, 🇬🇧 diplomatom, ktorý pôsobil v 80. rokoch v Československu a nedávno návštívil 🇸🇰 pri príležitosti vydania knihy Traja na hranici o súdnom procese za prenášanie náboženskej literatúry, ktorého sa vtedy zúčastnil ako pozorovateľ.
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Odporúčam túto novú knihu biskupom Haĺkom o troch mladých Slovákoch - Branislav Borovský, Alojz Gabaj a Tomáš Konc - nespravodlivo odsúdených v 1985 za prenášanie náboženskej literatúry. Proces mal svetový zásah a 🇬🇧ambasáda bola tam prítomná. Skromní a skutoční hrdinovia. 🙏 UPN
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Psalms stripped of poetry and impossible to sing
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The new lectionary has now been in force since the beginning of Advent last year. I say “in force” rather than a more neutral expression, because there was no
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Catholic laity appeal to bishops of England and Wales to be more enthusiastic about synodality
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Catholics from the three London dioceses of Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster have called for a “more participatory Church” after meeting over three years
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