Thomas Sharp (he / they) 🏳️‍🌈

This is what I need today. “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” Somehow just repeating the angel’s words to Mary and all humanity just helps put things a little bit back into perspective.

a woman in an apron says much better in a rainbow colored graphic ALT: a woman in an apron says much better in a rainbow colored graphic

I'm meant to be teaching students how to be amateur psychologists in parish ministry... but instead have prepared slides on Cicero, Augustine and Aquinas on desire, disordered love & concupiscence. How much of parish drama is people not knowing what they really want or how to get it.

Hl. Johannes Chrysostomus, Erzbischof Von Istanbul

Hl. Johannes Chrysostomus, Erzbischof Von Istanbul https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/hl-johannes-chrysostomus-erzbischof-von-istanbul-867

If only all of our spoons could be used on things which regulate us and give us fulfilment…

Red text on a light grey background Sometimes the most honest prayers we can pray are the ones that sound like; This is hard. I am tired. Please help. (Ashley Morgan Jackson)

#ToPray✝️

Sometimes the most honest prayers
we can pray are the ones that sound like;

This is hard.
I am tired.
Please help.

(Ashley Morgan Jackson)

Ikon of Bernard Mizeki centre, tomb of Lancelot Andrewes to the right and the corner of the High Altar of Southwark cathedral to the left.

Back in Southwark for the licensing of lay ministers. Bernard Mizeki, pray for us. Lancelot Andrewes, pray for us!

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Politics defined by ones relationship to surveillance-feudalism makes much more sense.

My experience is that there was a an absolutely huge gap between people’s beliefs about how their immigration systems work and how they actually work, and if you’ve had experience of the immigration system in the US or UK, you’ll spend a lot of time with one raised eyebrow when the topic comes up!

On removal. Oh, and I managed to throw an Ipod in the bath as well. Success abounds!

two men are trying to put out a fire in a kitchen with failarmy on the bottom Alt: Two mean are pulling a baking tray out of the oven. The tray is on fire.

A successful Francis Day. Interacted with and taught students basically constantly from 9am-5pm. Then came home and set fire to a chicken. Actual fire. A new one for me. Don't know what Sainsbury's are feeding those birds these days. Napalm?

Good fact!

So pleased and proud that Sarah Mallally is new Archbishop of Canterbury! What a historic day!

Yaaaaaay!!! Pray for Sarah our Archbishop!!!

I love that a BBC tech person in a lanyard doing checks is the anglican equivalent of the red curtains on St Peters.

Can we have an Ipswich Council style laser show as well? And the other candidates being dumped into buckets of purple custard?

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY 7th Oct 2025 Anytime Join members of the Society of Catholic Priests in praying the rosary for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary with a special intention for peace in the world. www.societyofcatholicpriests.com

I will be praying the rosary on 7th October as a member of the Society of Catholic Priests, praying for peace in the world. Join us in prayer for peace wherever you are and whenever you can.

Forsythia (centre) next to a shed (right) with an acer in front of the shed and a passion flower (left).

Twiggy stump of salvia in centre, clay in foreground and leaves behind.

Little plants in black pots on grey flagstones.

Forsythia in the ground. Salvia in the ground, replacing a bush that we hate. Offspring of the bush that we hate potted and preserved for next season to provide ground cover in a bit of the garden we can’t see.

Now for a deep breath.

a man with glasses is surrounded by a glowing circle and the website pmitf.com is displayed below him Alt: a man with glasses and black top is gesturing that his mind is blown whilst an explosion radiates out from his head.

I'm finally reading some Ken Leech. Spirituality and Pastoral Care. Mind-blowingly good pastoral theology. How is his work not on every ministerial theology reading list? #theosky

A group of people smiling in surplices.

Its a contender for worst selfie ever, but please pray for these graduates of St Augustines who were licensed as Readers at Canterbury Cathedral tonight!

Adrian Boult (?) and Ralph Vaughan Williams

I received my inheritance from my Grandma today. Emotional going through some things that were meaningful for her and are for me. Here a portrait from before the premiere of Vaughan Williams’ Concerto Grosso, for which she played.

Please pray for these wonderful graduates of St Augustine's who were licensed as Lay Ministers in the Diocese of Chichester last week.

Authenticity isn’t the same as chaos.

Being authentic means showing up as your whole self - within boundaries, within consent, within context.

Unmasking is not dumping pain on whoever is near.

It’s truth with relationship at its center.

And all the autistic people said, “Amen.”

LIMERICK

It was the Medical Council’s belief,
That as a form of effective relief,
Paracetamol would
Be next to no good
From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Lord Carey has no legitimacy to be heard in public. He should have been ejected from the Lords long ago on the basis of his safeguarding record.

"Cutting the NHS budget" is never an acceptable reason to permit the killing of the elderly and disabled. It is however a good prompt to have a really grown up conversation about what treatments are appropriate to offer, and to refocus our resourcing on quality of life rather than extending life.