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...

I don’t plan on writing a blog about Harry and Meghan, although the latest publicity does give pause for thought. I suspect everybody has...

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...

They’d come a long way, the young couple and their young son. It hadn’t been ideal, travelling with such a young child, but they had to...

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...

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...

Ascension Day 1869 would have been one of great rejoicing in our Community, for it was the day a Sister made her vows. Not only was Sr...

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...

Sixty Years. Christmas is always a season to celebrate, but for William and Hannah Drew the 25th December had extra resonance as the day...

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...

Saintly? I have had a fondness for St Teresa of Avila, ever since I discovered that she was born on the same date as me (although I...

Last week’s Blog nearly never made it; it was all written, when my laptop decided not to connect to the internet, and while I know there...

There were many different types of work that a newcomer might be given on joining the Community. However, Sr Winifred has entered...

Coincidences do happen, so when I saw that we had two Sisters with the same surname, I wondered vaguely if they could be related, but...