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Sister Adeline Babington: The Stories Behind.
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...
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Jul 4, 2022
How do you follow?
People followed Jesus. For whatever reason, he seems to have attracted interest, crowds trailed him, anxious to see miracles, or hear a...
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Jun 29, 2022
Longing
Maybe there’s a department in heaven just concerned with prayer… one can imagine the group of angels deputed to intercession counting up...
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Jun 20, 2022
Alice or Ann?
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...
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Jun 13, 2022
Why?
Charles Freestone’s wife confused me. In the 1881 Census, he is married to Eliza, and they have three children: William, Ellen and Maria....
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Jun 9, 2022
Glorious?
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...
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May 31, 2022
Seventy
It is 1952: at Ditchingham the Community is led by Mother Flora, who was Reverend Mother for over thirty years; there are many Novices,...
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May 25, 2022
Dorothy and Gertrude
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...
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May 16, 2022
Image of God
Stubbornness has its good qualities – especially when trying to find information about the past. Phyllis Green is a case in point: in...
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May 10, 2022
Saul
Zealous The new Jesus movement was controversial; going against the practices that the religious authorities considered essential for the...
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May 4, 2022
No condemnation
Rejoice! Anyperson was imprisoned, kept chained by bars of iron that they carried around without even noticing. Bars created by shaming:...
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Apr 26, 2022
Faith Sisters
Caroline Smith confuses me: she was obviously a member of our Third Order, but equally I knew no member was called Caroline. We have very...
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Apr 19, 2022
Alleluia!
Holy Saturday: a day for stillness and reflection, for Jesus has died, and has not yet risen; for the disciples, back then when it was...
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Apr 14, 2022
Known
It is the 24th October 1858. Captain William McCarthy Murray of the 2nd West India Regiment is –I’m not sure where, to be honest, but...
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Apr 7, 2022
Ruling?
Rules are made to be broken; yet, we kept them. Because the government had asked us to? because we didn’t want to be disapproved of?...
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Mar 28, 2022
Hopeful?
Have you ever studied chimneys? Not the mechanics of how they work, or how they are cleaned, but how they look. Given that they spend the...
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Mar 21, 2022
Leaving
It always intrigues me when I come across a Sister who has left the Community, of whom there have been several since our foundation. When...
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Mar 15, 2022
Mine?
He was rich; he owned much land and money, had a luxurious house, and many servants. He wasn’t going to sell it all and follow Jesus....
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Mar 7, 2022
One thing you lack
Sam was a privileged young man. He had a good education, trained for his station in life, his parents being among the elite in his...
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Mar 1, 2022
Enemies
I find myself torn this week: do I talk about Lent, or do I talk about the war in Ukraine? Both are important, yet in both cases I...
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