Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest

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For all the occasional laddish informality of the prose – “would a saint, as I did later on, jump the barriers to avoid paying 20p for a wazz at Euston?” Butler-Gallie asks while discussing charity and kindness in contemporary life – there is a warmth and wit here that recalls everyone from Wodehouse to that other godly humorist GK Chesterton, although it is hard to imagine Chesterton’s Father Brown receiving what Butler-Gallie describes as “an impromptu and ill-directed enema, courtesy of one of Britain’s dirtier rivers” while holding a merchant navy remembrance service alfresco by the Mersey. The phrase “touching cloth” means that you have to poop so badly that it is peeking out and touching the underwear or that you nearly crapped yourself.

never mind i am starting to quite enjoy the sensation it is similar to when you insert your penis through my cheeks to the brown. I saw the car coming up from behind me. When I saw he wasn’t going to stop, I was touching cloth! I knew he was going to hit me and there was nothing I could do about it.”

I did find his judgments and findings of human kindness very similar to my own which gave me some connection, other than that I struggled to connect to him. Funder reveals how O’Shaughnessy Blair self-effacingly supported Orwell intellectually, emotionally, medically and financially ... why didn’t Orwell do the same for his wife in her equally serious time of need?’

Butler-Gaille is a young Church of England priest, and this—not his first book—is a recently-published memoir of his first year following ordination. It’s rare that a book makes me actually, really, laugh out loud, but this one did that several times over. It also affirmed Butler-Gaille’s deep-seated faith, while recognising some of the frictions and absurdities of the institution of the Church of England.The very word ‘reverend’ inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one’s life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn’t it? The exact origin of the idiom“touching cloth” is unknown. The only thing for certain is that the phrase began being used sometime in the early 2000s to describe someone’s urge to poop. “Touching Cloth” Examples Example Statements