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Sister Isabel.
There are many Sisters within our Community who have used their middle names, rather than their first ones, starting with M. Lavinia and...
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Apr 18, 2023
Not in our own strength
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...
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Apr 11, 2023
Dedicated
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...
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Apr 3, 2023
Used
How often do you throw stones? Metaphorically, if not literally? Stoning was the prescribed punishment for adulterers in the Old...
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Mar 27, 2023
Sr Margaret
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...
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Mar 20, 2023
Forgiven
They owed their boss millions of pounds: re-paying the debt was proving impossible, but their boss was growing impatient. Summoned before...
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Mar 13, 2023
Gently
Researching the background of our Sisters throws up some interesting comparisons, as well as the occasional tragedy. Take Sr Marianna:...
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Mar 6, 2023
Committed
The bell rang, summoning the Sisters to this special Eucharist. Everything was ready … the girdle and ring waiting to be blessed, cards...
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Feb 27, 2023
Physical Lent
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...
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Feb 20, 2023
Sr Gwendoline
Many, if not all, of our Sisters grew up in religious households. Some, the daughters of clergy, would obviously have had a strong...
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Feb 13, 2023
Unconditional
The comments of Jesus to the Pharisees and scribes are well -known. (See, for instance, Mark 7 and Matthew 23).; stated, I suspect, to...
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Feb 8, 2023
Lay Aside
So great a cloud of witnesses surrounds us … not only the Old Testament examples of faith that the writer to the Hebrews mentions in...
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Jan 31, 2023
Retired?
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...
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Jan 25, 2023
Sister Priscilla Littlewood
“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,...
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Jan 23, 2023
Sr Violet
Our Orphanage was founded in the 1860s for girls of the ‘upper classes’; girls of a certain social status, who would normally need to...
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Jan 16, 2023
Judge
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...
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Jan 9, 2023
Trusting
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...
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Jan 5, 2023
Chaotic.
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...
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Dec 19, 2022
Many or Few?
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...
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Dec 19, 2022
Grasshoppers?
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...
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