Imagine you’re a potter. You make many beautiful objects, but all of them have a practical purpose as well: bowls, plates, mugs and so...

They were sleeping, huddled together in a doorway, with no other place to go overnight. It was a good doorway: undercover, and big enough...

Living in a Community can bring you face to face with your less admirable side. It is very easy to blame other people, rather harder to...

Born in Canada, Sr Margaret was one of those Sisters whom we know very little about. A popular name in the Community, this Sr Margaret...

God is love … something we are often taught from our earliest years. But what does it mean to say that God is love? How should that...

It is Advent and we are waiting. Waiting for the coming of our Saviour; waiting in anticipation and preparation for the coming festival;...

What is the difference between a subject and a citizen? While researching our Community history, I found some Sisters have the words...

Lydia Foreman, Eliza Whitlock and Emily Dempsey were all women who needed to reconfigure their lives, and their means of earning their...

How often do you relax with God? Praying, yes, but in a way that enables you to lean into the greatness and mercy of God’s love for you. ...

You could guarantee how the preacher would start their sermon. Every year, once a year. Every year a different preacher. Every year the...

In exploring the lives of those of our early novices who did not remain in the Community, I have found it interesting that several also...

Hananiah could not stand the man. He was so negative and dragged down God’s people with his false prophecies, foretelling doom and...

We can all have our own individual relationship with God; when we pray, that may well be a time for ‘me and God’ (or possibly that should...

I well remember harvest that year. 2004, I think it was. At that point, the Community Summer retreat took place at the end of August and...

You know what it’s like when you get something in your eye: you’re focussed on this irritation until you’ve managed to remove it. Yes,...

I was not sure that I would ever find out who Sr Alice Faith was. She was one of our Third Order, which was established for women who had...

Those of you who are regular readers of this blog may have noticed the (inadvertent) challenge I set you last week, where I neglected to...

I’ve been intrigued a few times recently by hearing that something will ‘reduce the chance of death’. It’s an interesting phrase because,...

It can be difficult to believe in a love that never fails when we live in a world where so often it does. We see the failure of love...

Born in 1847 in North Shields, Northumberland, Sr Jane was the daughter of Francis and Margaret Buck, according to her baptism record....