The Real Nuns of "Call the Midwife"

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I recently came an article from 2012 with the real-life nuns that have served as consultants to the show Call the Midwife. They are a group of seven Anglican sisters from the Community of Saint John the Divine. The community was founded in 1848 as a "nursing sisterhood" working with Florence Nightingale, London's East End, and then Birmingham where they've lived since 1976.

The work of discernment: "call and dread”

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The work of discernment sets a challenge before us. We enter a process of choice and decision-making with many aspects to it.