When I first joined CAH, the annual Summer retreat for the Community used to take place over the end of August and beginning of...

Looking back 20-odd years ago to the late 1990s, there was a different world. Climate Change had been heard of, but was still...

Anyperson had taken over an allotment which hadn’t been used for some time. A lot of digging was involved, clearing the weeds and...

When I joined the Noviciate, all my fellows Novices came from the North, so as I came from Norfolk and our Novice Guardian from Suffolk,...

I was going to start this blog piece by writing about our Community day, which didn’t happen as I was ‘pinged’ by the NHS Covid app that...

Jesus called Matthew to follow him: Matthew, a despised tax collector, one who collaborated with the Roman occupiers of Judea. One who...

My name is Doubting Thomas; it is how generations of people know me: the one who didn’t believe in the Resurrection of my Master. Yet I’d...

Walking through Norwich brings up regular links with our history; through streets where we had houses, past churches where we used to...

In Psalm 148 there is an increasing crescendo of praise to God. Starting with the heavens, angels, sun, moon and stars, there follows the...

Anyperson had a backpack; not your normal kind of backpack that comes off, that you can put objects in, but a backpack that was attached,...

Walking down the corridor at the old Convent you were greeted by texts, painted by one of our early Sisters, and later re-painted by one...

What is it that we possess that comes between us and the Spirit? That which we hold onto, which we cannot let go of, which can be hard to...

Joseph Justus, known as Barsabbas, has a very small part in the book of Acts. In Chapter 1, Peter suggests choosing a man, one who was...

Sr Winifred was always very organised when it came to organising a Community Day; she would often involve her friends, or contact the...

When we make our Profession (take vows) in Community, the first question we are asked is ‘What is your desire?’ to which the answer is ‘I...

While we were still at Ditchingham, a flock of sheep often used to come to feed on one of the fields nearby in late winter/early spring....

Picture a medieval city, with a castle or tower in the middle, and walls around it for defence. Maybe you’ve seen the remains of the city...

On February 9th 1840, a child was born, a girl named Rachel. Her parents, Matilda and Thomas Cook (or Cooke), a labourer, lived in...

I enjoy visiting cemeteries, as I find them to be places of peace, as well as of grief. Maybe it is the stillness, maybe it is the...

I always feel sorry for Peter at this time of year, when he is recorded as denying Jesus - although he did. But only because he was...