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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...
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Nov 21, 2022
The blind man and Zacchaeus
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...
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Nov 14, 2022
Sister Anne Drew
Sixty Years. Christmas is always a season to celebrate, but for William and Hannah Drew the 25th December had extra resonance as the day...
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Nov 10, 2022
Sr Ann Cecilia
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...
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Oct 31, 2022
Saints and Thanks
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...
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Oct 24, 2022
Glory to God
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...
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Oct 18, 2022
Good News?
There were many different types of work that a newcomer might be given on joining the Community. However, Sr Winifred has entered...
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Oct 10, 2022
Gifted
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...
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Oct 10, 2022
Love your neighbour
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...
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Oct 3, 2022
Who?
‘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...
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Sep 20, 2022
Risen!
Charles Cousins, a Commercial Traveller employed to sell the products of his company, married a widow, Emma Osmund Moore, in 1849 at St...
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Sep 13, 2022
Blessed?
‘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...
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Sep 5, 2022
Sister Agnes.
Sometimes, researching the past leaves me with more questions than it finds. Take Sr Agnes as an example. Sr Violet had told me, years...
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Aug 31, 2022
Choosing Love
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...
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Aug 22, 2022
Fixed on God.
Sr Harriet was a widow, which makes finding her background more complicated. In addition, she was born in Ireland, so may or may not...
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Aug 16, 2022
Believe in Love?
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...
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Aug 11, 2022
Hear
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,...
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Aug 2, 2022
How do you love?
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...
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Jul 27, 2022
Can you see?
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...
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Jul 18, 2022
Sr Alice Louisa
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,...
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