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Sr Margaret
It’s strange how memory works. I’ve got a distinct memory of an anecdote, but realised the person I thought had told me, couldn’t have...
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- Mar 20
Forgiven
They owed their boss millions of pounds: re-paying the debt was proving impossible, but their boss was growing impatient. Summoned before...
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- Mar 13
Gently
Researching the background of our Sisters throws up some interesting comparisons, as well as the occasional tragedy. Take Sr Marianna:...
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- Mar 6
Committed
The bell rang, summoning the Sisters to this special Eucharist. Everything was ready … the girdle and ring waiting to be blessed, cards...
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- Feb 27
Physical Lent
Do you have a ‘bucket’ list? I don’t, but an awareness of the fact that I am going to die one day came nearer last week, when Sr Violet’s...
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- Feb 20
Sr Gwendoline
Many, if not all, of our Sisters grew up in religious households. Some, the daughters of clergy, would obviously have had a strong...
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- Feb 13
Unconditional
The comments of Jesus to the Pharisees and scribes are well -known. (See, for instance, Mark 7 and Matthew 23).; stated, I suspect, to...
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- Feb 8
Lay Aside
So great a cloud of witnesses surrounds us … not only the Old Testament examples of faith that the writer to the Hebrews mentions in...
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- Jan 31
Retired?
Emilie May Margaret Wood was a Londoner, born in Pimlico in 1873; her family seemed to have moved frequently, so by the age of 7 she was...
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- Jan 25
Sister Priscilla Littlewood
“It will be a week tomorrow since I heard from you & I have had many anxious thoughts about you” writes M. Lavinia to an unknown Sister,...
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- Jan 23
Sr Violet
Our Orphanage was founded in the 1860s for girls of the ‘upper classes’; girls of a certain social status, who would normally need to...
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- Jan 9
Trusting
Our first work started before the Community came into existence. The House of Mercy was founded by a group of Clergy in the Diocese (then...
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- Dec 19, 2022
Many or Few?
St Andrew’s Day is always worthy of a celebration in our Community, commemorating as it does not only the apostle Andrew, but also the...
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- Dec 19, 2022
Grasshoppers?
In one of last year’s blogs, I mentioned that the first Advent I was in Norwich everywhere seemed to be playing ‘Rudolf the Red-nosed...
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- Nov 21, 2022
The blind man and Zacchaeus
Determination Quite what the motivation of the rich ruler was in asking how he could attain eternal life, we don’t know; but it obviously...
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- Nov 14, 2022
Sister Anne Drew
Sixty Years. Christmas is always a season to celebrate, but for William and Hannah Drew the 25th December had extra resonance as the day...
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- Nov 10, 2022
Sr Ann Cecilia
Where is your home? As the youngest of Matthias and Margaret Edge’s six children, Ann must have grown used to her siblings being away...
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