On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, Mother Winsome SBVM reflects on the ups and downs of the community life that she has led since she and her sisters were received into the Church ten years ago today.
Do you remember what you were doing exactly ten years ago? We do! The community that is now the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary were preparing for the biggest move of our lives; both in a spiritual and physical sense.
On 1 January 2013 we were received into the Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, having accepted the late Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation via the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus for groups of Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Holy See. It was a day of great joy, but tinged with some sadness.
