Alice Jolley @mthr_alice Twitter profile

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

I, along with, I imagine, lots of other clergy in the Church of England, would really appreciate your prayers today. Can't bring myself to wear a collar, but otherwise trying to push through as normal.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

I'm so tired of being gay in the Church of England. "What did you expect?" I hear you mutter. The honest answer is I could never have imagined it would be this hard.

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4 years

Clergy friends: what do you do after a tough funeral? I think my current practice, I.e., 'drinks tea and stares into space for an hour' could be improved upon.

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

Oh, somebody misspelt 'beautiful story'! Let me help:

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Out in Soho last night, surrounded by beautiful Queer people, we felt genuinely happy and safe, in a way we haven't for a while. A Church of England praying for there to be fewer LGBTQI+ people is not a Church of England I want to be part of.

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Alice Jolley

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8 months

@JayHulmePoet Yes. The labrador looks and smells like it's already died, but they love it more than their children.

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3 years

An example of an interaction that can really improve an LGBT clergyperson's day: "What about you, are you married?" Me: "I... err. Yes, yes I am" "Lovely. And what do they do?" Me: **beaming** "She's a maths teacher". 😊

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

No, you just sent an email calling it Evensnog.

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Imagine being a Member of Parliament who thinks Church and State are separate in England? Like being a bus driver who thinks buses are pulled by unicorns.

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Alice Jolley

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8 months

Half a decade ago. 'Here we are in heaven, for you are mine at last'.

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

I'm not usually given to writing poems, much less sharing them publicly, but... this is a season of the most unlikely things.

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Some news! It's been announced that, subject to legal checks, I have been appointed Team Vicar - with responsibility for St Mary, Apsley End and St Benedict, Bennet's End - in the Langelei Team Ministry in the Diocese of St Albans. 🌹 🌹

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Looks at Monday morning 'To Do' list. Drinks coffee. Puts collar on. Takes deep breath: "Hail Mary, full of grace, punch the devil in the face."

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Alice Jolley

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11 months

I was struck by the silently murderous role the Church plays in this story and others like it, making gay people of Peter's generation believe themselves unworthy of love, and deserving of excruciating loneliness. It is abuse.

The Sixth Commandment review – as immaculate a piece of TV as you will ever see

This true-crime tale of a predator poisoning two vulnerable victims is harrowing and intense – but it is impossible to look away

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

I'm getting ordained in the morning!

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3 years

Does anyone want to have a go at defending this? Because I think it's pretty indefensible. @ChurchTimes

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Alice Jolley

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9 months

Ahh, so nice to start Sunday morning with a backlog of men telling me I'm not a priest. Thank goodness for the 🚫 button.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

It would be really great if we could stop asking clergy to talk about their previous careers and experience gained from them. Some of us were ordained aged 24, and we were led to believe that was perfectly okay.

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Rubber ducks were a BIG hit at today's baptism. Perfect focus/ fun for lively toddler and his big sister. I think they might be standard issue from now on.

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

Can't really believe I'm reading this, but it seems @CoopFuneralcare are offering memorial services for families who lost a loved one during lockdown, for £700. If this is you, please, please get in touch with your parish priest and save yourself £700

Funeral Services - Arrange a funeral service

If you need to arrange a funeral, whether it’s a tailored funeral, a simple funeral with all the essentials or a direct cremation or burial, we can help.

www.coop.co.uk

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Every year, the Nuns who live at the end of our road share their apples. And every year, I make Nun Crumble (does not contain actual Nuns).

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

We are 1 today! A whole year of making each other laugh, making a family, building a home, falling in love over and over again. We have everything we need. We are whole. We are blessed. There is no fear in love.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

6 months a priest today 🍾

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

Very excited for the baptism of @JayHulmePoet this afternoon. *must not forget alb and stole*

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

These pictures are on our mantlepiece at the moment, both taken in the last year. We will find a way to make this work. #loveislove

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

Priesting! First Mass! Joy, joy, joy.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

9 months

There is a difference between sharing a snapshot of one's week, and irresponsibly using this platform to spread such egregious right-wing views.

OurCofELike

@OurCofELike

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Rosary for the lives of the unborn being offered on the bus @March4LifeUK

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

The news we've all been waiting for: H&M are selling quilted fiddleback chasubles, for the winter months.

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Alice Jolley

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5 years

Lots of my non-Christian friends have been messaging me about the Rochester crazy golf, asking me how I feel. I’ve been explaining that (a) I think it’s totally fine. Literally. (b) The argument is not re: desecration of sacred space, but is textbook middle-class snobbery.

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3 years

Hit the lockdown wall today. Everything is rubbish, everything is pointless, come and get me out of bed when it's over.

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Alice Jolley

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9 months

Have any female clergy got any new tattoos to show off? Here's mine, 5 days healed and I'm in love with the colours/ texture:

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Never mind COVID-19... JOLLEY-19 is 2 today! I never believed that being this happy could be this simple, or this much fun. Happy Anniversary to us! @jolleymaths

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Alice Jolley

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3 months

The early mass, for the repose of Anna's soul.

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Alice Jolley

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5 months

Half a decade of Mrs and Mrs Jolley! Happy 5th birthday to us 🌈

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

3 years

Food is good. It keeps you alive. Burgers are lovely. Jesus wants you to love yourself enough to put food in your tummy and enjoy it. All happy people are very beautiful. Eating is a privilege and a joy.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

9 months

For clarity, the Church of England does not campaign against abortion. Abortion is sometimes the lesser of two evils, and necessary. That's the position. To campaign against safe, legal access to medical abortion is right-wing and also just nuts.

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1 year

Can't believe women in the Church are having to spell this out again, but it is perfectly possible to believe that women should be priests (here I am 👋) and bishops, and that there should be places and spaces for people who don't share this view.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

13 days

The visitation! Women sharing their miraculous encounters with the love and power of God. A feast that has come to mean something new and special to me. This is one of my favourite depictions of it (Gwen Raverat).

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

My dear, brilliant spiritual director. I would never have been ordained, never have been able to look the Church in the eye, without her. Life, ministry, without Anna's wisdom and kindness? I don't know what that is. I don't know how it can be.

RIP - Revd Anna Matthews, Vicar of St Bene't's in Cambridge - Diocese of Ely

It is with profound sadness that we share the news that The Revd Anna Matthews, the Vicar of St Bene't's, Cambridge, has died.

www.elydiocese.org

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

I'm always in awe of Funeral Directors, but never more so than at the moment. These are the most challenging circumstances, but they've not given an inch in standards or quality of care. Always ready with a cheeky grin and a Werther's Original when we need it most. Thank you 😘

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

3 years

This is the boy who ate 90g of 85% dark chocolate and cost his Mummies £480.

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Popped into @waitrose to buy anniversary flowers and champagne for tomorrow (3 years!). The lovely lady at the till gave me another, free bunch of flowers and wished us a happy anniversary. That's made my day ❤

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

Lovely letter and certificate from the Bishop in this morning's post. One pandemic curacy, 2 years and 8 months, signed off ✅

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Being 26 is really fun so far! Blue cake, balloons, and Bollinger.

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

When you've done the age-old clergy funeral trick of holding it together until you get in the car, and then letting yourself cry all the way home, and then the funeral directors pull up next to you at the traffic lights. 🤦‍♀️

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

@RevRichardColes I've started taking Fernando to mass, too. I can't bear being in church on my own and he helps.

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

I need to polish my black shoes, but I don't want to polish them because then everything will be ready for tomorrow, and never in any sphere of possible imagination am I ready for tomorrow.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

2 years

Good disagreement is when I think that same sex couples should be able to get married in church, and lots of other people don't, and we disagree on grounds of our theological convictions. Happens all the time. Is largely amicable. Conversion therapy is different.

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

If you have any kind of influence, if you can help make this nightmare end for LGBTQ+ people, please, please help. Not all of us have happy, beautiful stories. Some of us would rather die than be gay in the church. Lots of us already have. Use your voice.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

The Church of England has a habit of making LGBTQA+ people feel like rubbish to be thrown away, or an indulgent additive for those who can be bothered to care. If you are feeling tired, listen to my friend @JayHulmePoet and be soothed. Change is coming.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

I normally get v annoyed with all the CT bashing. But I work *hard* day in, day out to encourage people to know they are loved immeasurably as they are. This sort of thing is not helpful.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Congrats to the Methodist Church! And very good that an opt-out clause is included. Let's have something similar in the C of E. If you don't want to, no-one's forcing you. 🌈

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

Typo of the day? Instead of hymn, hymen.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

3 years

There's one curatage in the Diocese of Lincoln that comes with a pool and a walled garden. And prosecco.

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

Very excited that my priesting and 1st mass will be on 4th October! It's such good news. Thank you to everyone who has prayed in this strange time. 💙

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Alice Jolley

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8 months

The interesting thing, of course, about converting one's Civil Partnership to a Civil Marriage is that it is backdated, so technically you've been married all along.

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Alice Jolley

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9 months

A year since I stood here nervously waiting for the wardens to lead me up the aisle to the Bishop. I am remembering Anna, on the right, turning to smile at me. I miss her today as every day. Thankful for this silly, fun, scary new life and this call that refuses to go away.

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Alice Jolley

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5 months

I started wearing glasses full time 3 days ago and my observations are thus. They steam up: - when I am out walking in the cold - when I blow on a cup of tea - when I open the oven - when I come in from outside And the rest of the time they just need cleaning..?

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Are you really in love with Durham if you don't throw yourself from the left to the right side of a Northbound train just to catch a glimpse of her?

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

There was priesting news this afternoon! Still working details out and making rough plans. Also crying with joy/ panic/ disbelief, and drinking gin. Prayers appreciated. 🙏

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

The Hound and his Boy 💕 @JayHulmePoet

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9 months

Yes, I am the vicar who managed to lose her phone in the prosecco section of the Sainsbury's opposite church before 10am on a Sunday morning... 🥂

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

1 year

Anglican Twitter, so kind and Christian in the last week or so. May we ask for your prayers for a private intention, today and tomorrow? 🙏

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

**Nervously puts head around door of Twitter after 6 weeks** Christus Surrexit! Alleluia!

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

This church, Lord. Forgive me my anger. Forgive us the choices we must make.

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3 years

This is how it's done! Congrats to L and C. 🌈 (And this is how the Church of England could be saved. Don't say we didn't warn you.)

Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church

@BloomsburyCBC

3 years

Confetti! #LoveWins #FaithfullyLGBTQ #LGBTQ #SameSexMarriage ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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4 months

I swear if I have to hear the General Synod of the Church of England laughing about sex one more time I will not be responsible for my actions!

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

I've been a priest for 4 days and I have this thought: I wish I'd known sooner that preparing for this ministry is a gradual process of becoming one's truest self. The idea isn't that you drag yourself, broken and bleeding, towards an unattainable goal.

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

Honestly thought this day might never come, for a number of reasons beyond my control. But I am finally, officially, a Master of Arts. 🎉

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Alice Jolley

@mthr_alice

4 years

Boys. @JayHulmePoet

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@mthr_alice

8 months

Always baffled by how relatively invisible gay women clergy seem to be in comparison to men. Are there fewer of us? Do we sometimes enjoy the privilege of invisibility? Who knows. 👋

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8 months

Apparently it’s both clergy appreciation day and international lesbian day - so a special shout-out to those in both categories!

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1 year

Absolutely this. We are not waiting to hear how God sees us, we can rest in his delight in us and his loving kindness now.

Jarel Robinson-Brown ❤️‍🔥🌾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@ScholarPriest

1 year

My pastoral advice to LGBTQ+ Anglicans over the next few weeks is to choose your engagement with the news and social media wisely - do what you need for your well-being. Bask in the love of God and rest in the prayers of the Saints. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Alice Jolley

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8 months

Shortly after the worst thing in the world happened earlier this year, someone said to me "Even the darkness is no darkness to God. He can make of this something new, something beautiful". I didn't believe them at the time. But they were right.

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4 months

This is so beautiful. What will survive of us is love.

‘I’m sorry to have to announce that my cancer situation has developed not necessarily to my...

MY favourite bit of understatement ever comes not from a Brit or a Spartan but from the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In August 1945, following Japan’s defeats […]

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Alice Jolley

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9 months

Of course, I am a priest forever. And because of my priestly ministry I know that life is rarely black-and-white. God offers mercy, and forgiveness, and kindness, a second chance for love. To appoint ourselves judges higher than him is to stray into very dangerous territory.

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Alice Jolley

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6 months

This morning during my sermon I pointed to our large, empty, dark crib and said "if your heart feels or has felt like that, then it is the perfect place for Jesus to be born".

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

"Oh God" is a prayer of its own these days. It will have to do, being all I have.

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Alice Jolley

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4 months

Silly to expect an incumbent's stipend to stretch to all 34926435681 days of January anyway.

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Alice Jolley

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1 year

I have lightly edited this poem and am sharing the finished version. Goodness knows how many hours it's been now.

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

Spent 10 mins sitting in the car between visits, just letting my thoughts turn over: power play, and lies, trust, homophobia in this institution. This is mentally an absolutely exhausting time to be gay, partnered, and newly ordained.

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Alice Jolley

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2 years

3 years! ❤🍾💐 'What excessive promises, giving yourself away to get the other. What a thing, what a gift, always given before it is known the cost or the reward'. - 'Little Women', Greta Gerwig (2019).

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Alice Jolley

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4 years

In my emails this afternoon there's a letter from my Bishop about the ordination retreat. 'The retreat will conclude with the Swearing of Oaths, Bishop's Charge, and a *cup of tea*'. 😊 Very pleased that the quintessence of our Anglicanism hasn't been compromised!

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1 year

Evensong = balm for sore hearts

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3 years

The point is not that there's no such thing as sexual/ marital sin. There certainly is, as clergy well know. The point is that same-sex relationships, and permanent commitment thereto, are not an example of such sin.

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Alice Jolley

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3 months

Round of applause for my wife, who perfectly followed my instructions for a chocolate peanut butter birthday cake with blue icing 💙 (and made me a 👌bacon sandwich before work)

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Alice Jolley

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3 years

If you were my church keys, where would you be?

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Alice Jolley

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9 months

If a man can't do his stressful and demanding job without sexually assaulting women then I'd say he is the weak one. No?

Rosie Baruah

@rosieICM

9 months

For those of you wondering how sexual harassment of female surgeons can occur *in theatre* - may I present to you a letter in today’s @thetimes Nowhere in any prospectus I read did it say “expect to be sexually harassed/assaulted” This letter is shameful and shameless

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2 years

I've only got one Beatitudes sermon, really. Blessed are they who know their need of God.

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@mthr_alice

3 years

Alnmouth Friary has been a miraculous oasis of silence, sacrament, sleep, sea swimming, and joy this week. So thankful! 🌈 @monknunCofE

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3 years

This is a stroke of genius from @LincsCathedral , on the back of the gift shop bags.

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3 years

The moment anyone/ any organisation refers to any human beings as 'limiting factors' should be the moment everyone stops listening to them.

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5 years

I haven’t seen the comic relief gay wedding, I’m *way* too tired, but I have seen a lot of straight married Anglicans talking about how much it hurt them to watch it. I really hate to be impolite but... if you think that’s pain, you need to check your privilege.

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3 years

Rude not to swim on an afternoon like this. Had a little squeeze with @revkatebottley as well.

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1 year

In other words, the cure for burnout isn’t self-care. The cure for burnout is all of us caring for each other. No amount of “self-care” can stand against the flood of unceasing demands and unmeetable goals that keep us constantly striving and sacrificing'

In a world that glamorises stress, ‘burnout’ is a badge of honour. But there is a cure | Amelia...

Pretending wellness is a matter of personal choice is a convenient way for society to uphold systems of oppression, says author Amelia Nagoski

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Jolley

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8 months

Once again so thankful for the recordings on the Daily Prayer app. Not having to pray on my own, in my study, in the cold, is a huge blessing and especially this week when all the grief rises to the surface. 🙏

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3 years

I once drove the wrong way up the 1-way street in front of Ely Cathedral, and then had to do a 9-point turn in front of the school with children staring at me out of their windows - so I know exactly how the boat in the Suez Canal feels.

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7 months

The 'information for same-sex couples' section of the Weddings bit of the @churchofengland website is horrendous. "You might just need space for yourself to pray – some churches or cathedrals are left open at certain times so anyone can go in." Really...?

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3 years

We still saying @JayHulmePoet 's confirmation is the biggest thing happening in Leicester this weekend, yeah?

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6 months

6 years today since @jolleymaths asked me the easiest question ever! I still can't really believe the gorgeous ring and the gorgeous girl are mine. 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

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