Sr Miriam McNulty @BirgitteUna Twitter profile

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Sr Miriam McNulty

4 years

We now have a livestreaming page on our website: This is just the beginning of our new venture. Check our page for further developments.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

Post Office scam text: sorry we missed you. I bet you are! We are semi-enclosed nuns. We are always in!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

On this day in 1997 I made my First Monastic Profession. I appear to have only one, slightly goofy photo. Brand new habit, just a bit star struck, but ready for the next leg of the journey! Thanks to all who walked ahead and alongside me.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

When your mum sends you this video and suggests that you can start practising...

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

This year I'm planning to tweet a 'Path Through Advent with St Benedict'. I hope to post on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. I'm looking forward to walking with anyone who wants to make the journey.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

I've been wearing Birkenstock sandals for nearly 25 years. That first week was like walking on rocks, but, thereafter, BLISS! Here's to the next 25! Turvey Abbey: where socks and sandals will always be a thing.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

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If truth be told, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a UK nun or sister who has not shuddered at one of the most shocking podiums and policies in the past 13 yrs. In every city and many towns you'll find nuns and sisters quietly, and not so quietly, trying to fill the gaps

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He’s lost the nuns!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

20 years ago today I made my Solemn Profession at Turvey Abbey. Grateful for so many things, not least all who have supported me.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Turvey Abbey: where Jesus, the Mother of God and Lindt Bunnies live in peace and tranquility.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

Today we celebrate The Triumph of the Cross. It’s my monastic feast day. This means flowers and cards at your refectory place, extra snacks, whatever you wish for for breakfast (cooked, in my case), presents, a day free from ‘work’ and everyone being really nice!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

I bring you the Lectio Divina and Liturgical Season Trolley. IKEA may not have anticipated this nunly use of its excellent trolley. 😊

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Each time I take a picture of a sunrise I think surely it can’t get much better than this, and then…

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

You just can’t beat post from your 7yr old nephews. (Bib is my pet name. My little brother couldn’t pronounce my baptismal name, Birgitte. It seems to have stuck and is being passed down the generations.)

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

8 months

What it's like inside my head each time I try to pray!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

He is Risen and it warrants a choc truffle torte with coffee flavoured whipped cream.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

9 months

Starting on Sunday 3rd Dec I'll be posting daily reflections. This year I will be working my way through the alphabet, taking words from the Sunday and Weekday readings for Advent.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

When you are off to a meeting with nuns it’s time to use your nun merch.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

It’s happened! I just tried to turn the page by swiping! 😂 I think my brain has been rewired for touch screens.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

Dear Twitter, For Christmas I would like an 'edit' button. Sometimes have to do things in a hurry and make mistakes. I am hopeless at proof reading. Love, Sr Miriam

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

When your greengrocer sends you flowers with your order. I just needed this little kindness today.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

Great to know that the Our Father takes roughly 20 secs to say. I love the idea of praying this every time I wash my hands. It seems very fitting.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

My daily Scripture reflections will be starting again for Lent. Wherever you find yourself this Lent, may God bless you on your journey.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

@KnittingNun #TeamBelieve Solidarity with my sisters!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

In our back garden just now! The local farmer’s sheep have escaped.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

It’s our Prioress’ Feast Day tomorrow. In the monastic calendar this ranks alongside Christmas and Easter for liturgy and festive food. This is my take on Ottolenghi’s roasted figs with pomegranate molasses.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

My lovely mammy is 80 today. Always young at heart, always looking on the bright side. Picture here with my equally lovely grandparents Else and Henning Hansen🇩🇰❤️🇩🇰

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

created by a government that shows itself out of touch with the reality of people's lives. Think we are political? That's fine. We're not moving.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

At Turvey we are 2 monastic communities living in separate monasteries. Sometimes our post gets mixed up. Today’s post included a letter for Br Herbert from Her Majesty. He is 100 today!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

I really don’t like this new logo. It’s like something sinister is trying to infiltrate Twitter. Oh, wait …

The Church Mouse

@thechurchmouse

1 year

I wonder what the design brief was: “we’re looking for something less iconic and friendly. More … evil empire-ish”.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

I think I’ll go old school and leave these few decorations up until 2nd Feb.❤️

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

Is it just in the U.K. that this ‘art form’ was once to be found? Overseas readers: there’s a toilet roll under there! 😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

6 years

@dlongenecker1 Dwight, this is beneath you. Is this what you really think? And especially as you ministered in the Anglican Church in the U.K. Hoping for a nicer, more theologically literate tweet on this matter.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

Just listening to a great talk by @MassimoFaggioli . In the Q and A he said; ‘It’s clear who is attacking Vat II, but it’s not clear who is defending it.’ A very important point. I am very much here to defend Vat II. Anyone else defending too?

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

When the monastic nightly sweetie ration just happens to be your top choice! 😊 #thelittlethings #gratitude

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

A moment of great joy as I take possession of a new habit. Now time for the rather tricky task of sewing on the press studs.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

I have seen people recommending the gathering and laying out as a contemplative practice. I tried it and it was lovely. I gathered these things in 10 mins. We are blessed with a beautiful garden.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

I was asked to make an Ordination card including the text ‘tu es sacerdos in aeternum’. I made a range so the customer could choose. I quickly learnt that each creation is unique. So when I was asked for the same design but with different colours it was pretty tricky.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

7 months

When you have an American Prioress who visits the US and brings back everyone a hand picked pair of socks! Hoping to live up to my socks today 😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

We are celebrating the dedication of our Oratory today. We sing this hymn at Vespers and the words always move me.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

You gotta love a Pope in a Puffa coat. He needs be careful though if he gets a Blue Slush Puppy!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

8 months

Holy Innocents I have never found this feast easy. A part of me just doesn’t want to think about the slaughter of children. Sadly, the actions of a merciless depot are not confined to Biblical times. Scenes from Gaza will forever be imprinted in our minds.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

I came late to the work of John O'Malley SJ. This quote on the shift in outlook and ecclesiology evident in all the documents of Vat II stopped me in my tracks: 'from commands to invitations, from laws to ideals, from definition to mystery, from threats to persuasion,

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Easter in a bowl! Happy Easter Octave. Remember every day in the Octave is an Easter Sunday. Yes, you read that correctly! ✝️🐣

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

I’ve been making some O Antiphon cards from our Turvey designs. You have to zoom in for the artist’s mark. It stands for Vita et Pax, the name of our foundation.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 months

It proved pretty much impossible to take a pic that included me AND a full sign. But I voted! #NunsatPollingStations

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

Hey, #nunsoftwitter , so you see this?!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

My life in microcosm: Long hair grips for my big veil Small white hair grips for my work veil Small hair grips for my actual hair Cute pottery made at our Mother House by Sr Godelieve Owl features painted by Sr Hadewijch Functional, beautiful and quirky. That’s monastic life!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

I was the server at lunch and now my veil smells of dinner. I am the incense bearer at Vespers. Hoping to neutralise things! Febreeze you have nothing on monasteries.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

@hannahmerich Is this a common thing? Which type of habits are the actual nuns wearing? #NunsOfTwitter like to identify the species.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

@AugustineSDR We have followed his journey and it was such a privilege. Be assured of my prayers for you and all who mourn your Dad.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 months

I’ve had butterflies in my tummy all day. Anyone else feeling like this? This feels like the most important election I have ever voted in. Haven’t been able to settle properly to work that needed my brain, but have done sorting out and cleaning. #voteforchange

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Several years ago a sister from a Benedictine community in Belgium stayed with us for a week. One night she made these little fellows for supper. Cutest hard-boiled eggs ever.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

All of a sudden I’m getting more people liking my threads. I love how Twitter works. The web of connection keeps growing. #bodyofchrist

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

I am finding myself profoundly grateful for the green spaces that are available to me in our monastery garden. It is feeling like a huge luxury.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

The exegetical hill on which I am prepared to die: if the Greek texts says ‘adelphoi’, it means brothers and sisters. If your translation says anything else then it is not ‘more faithful’ or ‘more accurate’. You are being sold short.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

Before we begin... Welcome to A Path Through Advent with St Benedict. I’ll be using the Advent Liturgy of the Word as a framework for our reflection. I’ll choose a theme from the readings and relate this to my experience of living the Rule of St Benedict.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

Now this is a very rare monastic sight. Each night a supper sweets are put out and the number you may take is indicated. Tonight is the eve of our Sr Beatrix’s feast and so we have a sweetie platter that reflects her. She delights in every good thing. #whennunscelebrate

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

Intercession at Vespers yesterday: Father you have invited us to the festival of heaven… Me: Yikes, I hope I am in the glamping section. I mean this is for all eternity and I’ll need to dry my hair etc. 😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Made a meme today, I did.😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Easter Sunday Wherever you find yourself today, the Risen Christ is among us and calling us by name. ALLELUIA!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Issues Arising from the Rupnik Case: a thread 1 of 17) I am privileged to belong to a monastic community which has a strong artistic tradition. This picture is the work of Sr Regina, a Dutch sister. Her art is found all over the world.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

I don’t usually do food shots, but as there’s lots of Twitter talk about dispensations for St Patrick’s Day: red lentil and peanut butter croquettes, cauliflower cheese and potatoes. St Patrick is a Memoria for us. 😊

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

A PATH THROUGH ADVENT WITH ST BENEDICT (1) FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT Isaiah 2:1-5 Matthew 24:36-44 Each year as we celebrate the liturgical cycle, I am grateful for the opportunity to take stock and refocus my mind and heart.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Lent has now ended, Thanks for making the journey with me. Daily posts continue until Pentecost.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 months

I’ve just put out some Christmas Cake for the Feast of John the Baptist 😂 Alphabet and Omgea, all time belongs to him…

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@BirgitteUna

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

Post about Advent and St Benedict and have your followers grow by 189 in 24 hrs! Who knew?! Thanks for all of the follows. Very much looking forward to Advent now.

Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

This year I'm planning to tweet a 'Path Through Advent with St Benedict'. I hope to post on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. I'm looking forward to walking with anyone who wants to make the journey.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

5 years

You just can’t beat a good meme!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

8 months

So here’s my take on a Danish recipe. As always I made a few tweaks: added rum to the sponges and a bottom layer of confectioner’s custard. Happy New Year!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

5 years

A sister in my community paints designs on tiles. She is 85 years old and her work is meticulous. As well as using a paint brush, she also spreads the enamel paint with a pin. It is extraordinary how she does this. #nuntastic #nunsarecreative #godinallthings

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Just when you think policies couldn’t get more callous and misguided…

Michael Lambert

@MichaelLamberta

1 year

BREAKING: Suella Braverman plans to announce new fines of up to £1000 for begging.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

When a sister who is 87 asks you to mount her abstract art painting and make a card for her brother who will be 100, that’s a priority job!

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

I’ll just leave these two pictures here for your discernment…. Your handy guide to two different ecclesial states. 😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

7 months

Over the weekend I suddenly had an idea for using my pretty paper collection.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

You know your are a nun when new plastic clips and the pouch in which they come are equally exciting. 😂This nun loves a good storage solution. #nunlife

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Just starting our #nunsoftwitter and #bruvsoftwitter meeting here with the Daughters of Charity in Mill Hill.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

I’ll be taking a break from posting for the next couple of weeks. I hope to start posting again in Sundays, Feasts and Solemnities. Daily postings will return in Advent. Thanks for your companionship on the journey this Lent/Eastertide.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 months

I love it when the poppies are flowering in Turvey. There are little pops of colour all along the roadside.❤️

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Wherever you find yourself physically and spiritually as the Triduum begins, Christ invites you to walk with him and to know yourself the object of His LOVE.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

I am pretty much addicted to knitting these little girls. A friend saw my post on Facebook and would like a whole set for the acute mental health ward on which she works. I love having a purpose for my little hobby. Just another plus for social media. #nunswhoknit

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

I have followed the Synod as best I could and tried to see things from all perspectives. It has certainly been an eye opener and a great disappointment to see the comments accompanying any pictures of women at the Synod.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 years

Helige Birgitta! The Feast of my namesake. My Danish mother and Irish/English father named me Birgitte, the Danish form of the name. I also feel a connection to the Irish St Brigid.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

The Nuns of Turvey Abbey are preparing to receive their PhDs in Delayed Gratification. Yes, peeps, these bunnies have still not been consumed.😂 There have been additions, but no subtractions! #hardcoremonasticobedience

Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

Turvey Abbey: where Jesus, the Mother of God and Lindt Bunnies live in peace and tranquility.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

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6 months

I’m at home for a few days and needed a bit of handwork. My mother has enlisted me in her blanket making enterprise and even let me use her new wool contraption. My first square passed Quality Control. Phew 😂

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

New followers since 11 am yesterday now totalling 365! Feeling giddy.😀

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

3 months

That nun thing where you notice that another nun has almost double the number of followers than you do and think to yourself that you need to up your game. (My English teachers are ready to pounce at the appalling grammar in this tweet. 😂)

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

1 year

It’s so hot that making the Sign of the Cross at the beginning of the Magnificat actually created a little breeze! Perhaps we need to do this more in our liturgy. Or we could create a rubric that requires you to have your feet in a basin of water.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

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4 years

Laundry numbers: an integral part of Monastic Life. At the beginning of my monastic journey, I didn’t realise the full import of an item being mislaid for months... You learn fast. ‘And they held all things in common’ But marked their clothes so as not to annoy the laundry.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

The Sisters of Mercy in Sunderland educated me for the whole of my school life. I am so grateful for what they taught me and who they are.

Fr Marc Lyden-Smith

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4 years

The Nuns in #Sunderland came out to clap and sing for our #NHS tonight. Well done sisters! #NHSheroes

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

4 years

I give you The Doors of Turvey Abbey: Very sturdy front door, many inches thick and with a working bolt and latch.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

Yesterday I thought I'd put out my modest Christmas stock in our shop area. By 10.30 this morning all of my 'original creations' had gone... Time to make a few more.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

I give you the Toilet Roll Ladies of Turvey Abbey! Not quite the original intention of the pattern. 😂 It’s a great pattern for using up scraps.

Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

10 months

Is it just in the U.K. that this ‘art form’ was once to be found? Overseas readers: there’s a toilet roll under there! 😂

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2 years

In all the discussions around the parties held at Downing St it’s the details of what they left for the cleaners that really bothers me. I think it’s safe to assume that those who gathered had the best education that money could buy. Don’t we educate for virtue anymore?

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

2 years

@johncosgrove405 @JentenW @CensoredHead Here’s the video the world has been waiting for: Sr Zoe Davis folds a fitted sheet to perfection.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

@BirgitteUna

5 years

On this day in 1994 I was clothed in the Benedictine habit. Herewith, the only remaining items from that clothing. A pair of Icelandic woollen socks, which I only need to wear when the temp drops below zero! All other items are long since deceased or grown out of.

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Sr Miriam McNulty

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3 years

We have just received the body of our Sr Goedele De Belder into our chapel. She died on July 20th. This photo really encapsulates her. She had a great love for young children. There are lots more photos here:

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I don’t know how to break it to you, but in the monastery we keep Sts Cyril and Methodius and not St Valentine on Feb 14th. Cos you know the Gagolithic script is right up there in the evangelisation stakes. Keepin it vernacular. ❤️

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