Upheavels in monastery

Upheavels in monastery

Full Title: Upheavels in monastery

Catalogue number: 2021-11-04/205

Extent and Medium: One double sided A4. Date is either March or November.

Detailed description: Letter commenting on an upheavel in Glenstal, and expressing sadness at no longer having the Benedictine influence over her life. TEXT Medical Missionaries of Mary Rosemount, Booterstown, Co. Dublin Sunday 20th 1938 My dear Father Prior, It was good to hear your voice again on the phone. How I should have liked to have seen you, but I know this was impossible owing to the feast tomorrow. We can all be united in prayer and i say suffering, for I do not think there is anyone in authority who has not a great deal of this. One great thing about suffering is that it leads us to God. It would be difficult for me to express how much I miss the influence of St. Benedict's Fathers, but I suppose this must all be in God's plan. Father O'Driscoll has been extremely kind to me. Is it not a strange thing how they Augustinians will be working in ?? Nigeria I very nearly went down to the boat to see Father Abbot and you, but I feared I might have been in the way, as I would have been, as things turned out. I am sorry to hear you are going to have another domestic upheaval. If Dom Mathias is in charge of this department, I think it is better for me to keep out of things and let him get his own staff. If it were you who were in charge, I would do anything to help you get someone. Say a Low Mass please Father, for both our intentions. Your devoted and ever-grateful child, Sr. Mary

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