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...

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...