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- Aug 2
How do you love?
What would it be like if we could call down fire from heaven whenever we felt like it? (see Luke 9:51-56). Every time someone irritated...
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- Jul 27
Can you see?
It is the treasure hidden in the field, the pearl of great price, that you would give everything you own to possess. Yet not everyone...
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- Jul 18
Sr Alice Louisa
Where? I couldn’t find Sr Alice Louisa’s family. Her parents, Robert and Harriet Rolfe, married in 1839, and in the 1841 census they,...
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- Jul 11
Sister Adeline Babington: The Stories Behind.
Sometimes I will google an item that I have found in my research of our past Sisters: a place, a church or a farm or hall, something that...
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- Jul 4
How do you follow?
People followed Jesus. For whatever reason, he seems to have attracted interest, crowds trailed him, anxious to see miracles, or hear a...
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- Jun 29
Longing
Maybe there’s a department in heaven just concerned with prayer… one can imagine the group of angels deputed to intercession counting up...
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- Jun 20
Alice or Ann?
It was very exciting to be wrong. I was fairly sure that Alice Ames was Sr Alice Faith; Alice Ames was definitely a member of the Third...
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- Jun 13
Why?
Charles Freestone’s wife confused me. In the 1881 Census, he is married to Eliza, and they have three children: William, Ellen and Maria....
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- May 31
Seventy
It is 1952: at Ditchingham the Community is led by Mother Flora, who was Reverend Mother for over thirty years; there are many Novices,...
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- May 25
Dorothy and Gertrude
US It stuck out like a sore thumb – that single word ‘Lavinia’. Not the name as such – those of you who know our history will realise...
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- May 16
Image of God
Stubbornness has its good qualities – especially when trying to find information about the past. Phyllis Green is a case in point: in...
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- May 10
Saul
Zealous The new Jesus movement was controversial; going against the practices that the religious authorities considered essential for the...
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- May 4
No condemnation
Rejoice! Anyperson was imprisoned, kept chained by bars of iron that they carried around without even noticing. Bars created by shaming:...
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- Apr 26
Faith Sisters
Caroline Smith confuses me: she was obviously a member of our Third Order, but equally I knew no member was called Caroline. We have very...
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- Apr 19
Alleluia!
Holy Saturday: a day for stillness and reflection, for Jesus has died, and has not yet risen; for the disciples, back then when it was...
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- Apr 14
Known
It is the 24th October 1858. Captain William McCarthy Murray of the 2nd West India Regiment is –I’m not sure where, to be honest, but...
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- Mar 28
Hopeful?
Have you ever studied chimneys? Not the mechanics of how they work, or how they are cleaned, but how they look. Given that they spend the...
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