Albert Robertson OP, our Dominican answer to Delia Smith, on how to prepare to feed a bumper crop of novices.
Our house in Cambridge is the noviciate house of the English Province, so as the mind turns towards the start of the new academic year in October, late August and early September sees the arrival of the new crop of novices.
For the last few years we have had relatively small groups of novices – twos and threes and, for a couple of years, just one. This year, however, we have something of a bumper crop. The numbers are always somewhat elastic until the postulants finally arrive, but this year we are looking at an intake of at least seven.
