“Do you love me?” asks Jesus of Peter (see John 21). “Do you love me?” asks Jesus of us – and how do we answer? Do we love Jesus? and how...

Anyperson didn’t like themselves. They knew they were horrible and stupid, and condemning, negative feelings of shame and hate would come...

Sister Elizabeth Sarah It is the 23rd December 1856; the day Sarah Maria Watts married Samuel Howes at the parish of St John Timberhill...

I was offered a tract the other week, by someone I passed in the street; when I refused, he pointed out that it would tell me how to be...

“On the night of Nov 6th Sr Mary Elizabeth passed to her rest. She had been resident at Heigham Hall since 1886” says the Community Diary...

There are many Sisters within our Community who have used their middle names, rather than their first ones, starting with M. Lavinia and...

I’m Thomas – the one they call Didymus. You probably know me better as doubting Thomas. But Didymus is the name I was called among the...

Sr Kate was one of those Sisters who dedicated her life to only one of our works; a lay Sister, she is found at the House of Mercy in all...

How often do you throw stones? Metaphorically, if not literally? Stoning was the prescribed punishment for adulterers in the Old...

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...

They owed their boss millions of pounds: re-paying the debt was proving impossible, but their boss was growing impatient. Summoned before...

Researching the background of our Sisters throws up some interesting comparisons, as well as the occasional tragedy. Take Sr Marianna:...

The bell rang, summoning the Sisters to this special Eucharist. Everything was ready … the girdle and ring waiting to be blessed, cards...

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...

Many, if not all, of our Sisters grew up in religious households. Some, the daughters of clergy, would obviously have had a strong...

The comments of Jesus to the Pharisees and scribes are well -known. (See, for instance, Mark 7 and Matthew 23).; stated, I suspect, to...

So great a cloud of witnesses surrounds us … not only the Old Testament examples of faith that the writer to the Hebrews mentions in...

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...

“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,...

Our Orphanage was founded in the 1860s for girls of the ‘upper classes’; girls of a certain social status, who would normally need to...