Comments for Colwich Novitiate

Comment on COMMUNITY RETREAT by noviceship

noviceship — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:39:55 +0000

Hi there Brother,
Thanks for your comment! Will try our best – its all for the Lord.

God bless
Sr. Davina

Comment on COMMUNITY RETREAT by Br. Maximilian O.S.B.

Br. Maximilian O.S.B. — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:06 +0000

Hi Sisters,
I am a Benedictine monk from Conception Abbey in the United States. I just want to say you Blog is AWESOME keep up the good work of spreading the faith as my patron St. Maximilian Kolbe did! PAX ET BONUM!

Happy Solemnity of ALL the Saints!

Comment on COMMUNITY RETREAT by noviceship

noviceship — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:23:41 +0000

Thanks alice!
Yes, it was great to meet up with everyone again and to share their journey’s through this course, it certainly is a blessing and thought provoking! It’s great too that i am able to be a ‘witness’ to the love of God by my very presence and its was also great to see other religious there also…. I’m still trying to find out the answer to my question and will keep you posted…St. Matthew will be a stuggle to do but well worth it…there has been something different each time that you pick up (its a case of remembering all those talks and notes etc…..) ‘its like that pearl of a great price that is mentioned!’ I’d recommend it to anyone

god bless
sr. davina
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Comment on COMMUNITY RETREAT by alice

alice — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:18:51 +0000

Hi Sr. Davina, so lovely to see you at Maryvale. Thank you for joining up with me to expand our learning capacity! God bless you in your work. Father Basil spoke at breakfast of a society that insisted our community members proved their value to that society in order to demonstrate their ‘charity’ status and thus exempt them selves from ‘poll tax’ type levys – you are worth your weight in gold in your dedication to a life in Christ. See you next time hopefully. PS. love the blog, well done

Comment on In Honour of St. Therese by noviceship

noviceship — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:12 +0000

Thanks a lot Kate!!
Will try and carry on….i may get round to catching up now on a few posts…is there any suggestions you or anyone else may have on what you would like to hear more of???

god bless
sr. davina
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Comment on Pets Page by noviceship

noviceship — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:37:56 +0000

Thanks for the comment, yes it livens up the place and adds a family atmosphere. There is a kitten around now and i will sometime soon (I hope) write a bit about her, she belongs to our chaplain….some competition here now i think but who will win -chelsea or diana – i don’t know????

god bless
sr. davina
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Comment on How Sister Benedict made a Mistake by Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:48:18 +0000

Dear Sister Benedict,

Thank you very much for your reply.
To my amazement and delight, the convents and monastries in the UK are very much alive, as your site confirms! Colwich’s blog is a wonderful orchard of information I have realised- so many pages and blog roll links.
Since I last wrote I have returned many more times to read through the different sections. Initially I had only been looking confirm history, but this site has led me in many new directions and made me think a lot harder about my own spirituality. This is something I hadn’t examined in a Christian context for quite a while. So, I have found being able to read the nuns and guests comments thought provoking and reassuring….perhaps even like a hard push in a better direction.

With my appreciation,
Kirsty

Comment on How Sister Benedict made a Mistake by noviceship

noviceship — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:36:39 +0000

It is on 21st July entitled Junior Nun to Colwich, then there is part 5. It seems a long time ago that I wrote it. I do hope my experiences will be of some use to others.
Best wishes & prayers
Sister Benedict

Comment on Pets Page by Mary Ann Morrison

Mary Ann Morrison — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:21:04 +0000

I love the articles on Chelsea. I just finished
a discerning week with a monastery and they
have several cats. Sr. Sugar(she is all white)
likes to sit in the window during the Divine Office.
The three cats stay in the cloister garden and
play with the turtles that live there also. Everyday
I would go into the garden and pet them.
I work at a Catholic Church and our pastor has
a bassett hound named Wilbur Francis, Wilber
has a bed in my office and stays with me most
of the day. He has a basket of toys in our hallway
but he is very lazy and really has no interest in
playing with them he just wants them out of the
basket. My pastor said to me,”can you train him
to put the toys back in the basket?” So now I am
on a mission to teach him to pick up after himself.
Animals have a way of helping us not to take life
so seriously.

Comment on How Sister Benedict made a Mistake by Mary Ann Morrison

Mary Ann Morrison — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:00:19 +0000

Sister Benedict, where is part 4?
I love your story, I am discerning a vocation
to monastic life.