Convents are peaceful places, right? Full of prayer, and Sisters who love each other, and a sense of peace that hits you as soon as you...

‘Who do you say I am?’ queries Jesus to his disciples; their answer, while being totally accurate, was also wrong. For the vision of the...

Charles Cousins, a Commercial Traveller employed to sell the products of his company, married a widow, Emma Osmund Moore, in 1849 at St...

‘Blessed are the poor’ says Jesus in Luke 6; yet I wonder how many people today feel blessed because they are poor, in a time when it is...

Sometimes, researching the past leaves me with more questions than it finds. Take Sr Agnes as an example. Sr Violet had told me, years...

Do you? The two greatest commandments in the law are that to love the Lord your God with all heart and all your soul and all your mind...

Sr Harriet was a widow, which makes finding her background more complicated. In addition, she was born in Ireland, so may or may not...

I was back in the Convent Chapel last week; realising how much I had gained from that space, but also that I had let it go and moved on...

Where would Jesus be? I couldn’t help pondering that question as I watched some of the Norwich Pride parade. It was a colourful scene,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

People followed Jesus. For whatever reason, he seems to have attracted interest, crowds trailed him, anxious to see miracles, or hear a...

Maybe there’s a department in heaven just concerned with prayer… one can imagine the group of angels deputed to intercession counting up...

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...

Charles Freestone’s wife confused me. In the 1881 Census, he is married to Eliza, and they have three children: William, Ellen and Maria....

The King’s palace was full of splendour and majesty: lined in the purest marble, with a throne of gold, he wore a crown was heavy with...

It is 1952: at Ditchingham the Community is led by Mother Flora, who was Reverend Mother for over thirty years; there are many Novices,...

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...