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  • II.2 - The Statutes

  • from PART II - Government
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 88-104

  • Summary

    THE STATUTES OF THE SISTERS OF THE POOR

    DRAWN UP AND SIGNED THE 18TH JANUARY, 1859

    Nihil habentes, Omnia possidentes

    In the Name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity

    The following Statutes have been agreed upon and adopted for the due order and government of the House of the Sisters of the Poor, which has been established for the purposes hereinafter set forth, and these Statutes have been adopted with the desire and intent that through the Blessing of God, the principles on which the said House has been founded may be always preserved unchanged and inviolate and that it may be conducted and carried on in accordance with the true Christian Faith as it is set forth in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England to the glory of Almighty God and the Eternal Salvation of souls for whom Christ died. Therefore these presents witness and it is hereby agreed and declared as follows, that is to say -

    The object of the Said Society called ‘The Sisters of the Poor’ is the reception and maintenance of Incurables, of aged and infirm persons in destitute circumstances, and Orphans: - the visiting and nursing of the Poor and Sick, and the relief of their spiritual and temporal wants; the burial of the dead and the exercise of other works of mercy and the said society shall consist of a Superior and Sisters and shall be assisted by Trustees, an Auditor, and a Chaplain and such other Officers as the Superior and Sisters shall hereafter think fit to appoint.

    The Superior and Sisters shall elect such person as they shall think fit to be their Visitor for the time being. And the person so elected by the Superior and Sisters as aforesaid shall be the Visitor for the time being. And such Visitor shall have full power and authority as well upon his own mere motion as upon appeal lodged or complaint made at all times to visit the House and every Member.

  • I.3 - Memories of an Old Woman

  • from PART I - Recollections of the Society's Early Years
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 53-64

  • Summary

    The Recollections of an Old Woman. Novr. 1907

    I first went to Margaret Chapel in the Spring of 1842 - Mr. Upton Richards was then Curate to Mr. Oakley (sic) the Incumbent. My Father was acquainted with both. Mr. Redhead was Organist & gave me lessons in chaunting.

    We used to go to Town from time to time & almost always had lodgings within reach of Margaret Chi. & attended the Services both in the old Chapel, & in Titchfield Street, & 77 Margaret Street before All Saints Church was built.

    My Father introduced me to Mr Richards in 1849.

    We often saw Mrs. Stewart & her three daughters on their way to Church in the dark mornings, trotting along like so many little ponies. In these years many great & holy men were to be seen in Margaret St. on their way to & from the Chapel & Church to worship or preach. I remember, especially dear Bishop Forbes’ of Brechin spare & tall form, standing frequently at the door of the Clergy House waiting for admission.

    We all spent the Easter of 1856 in Margaret St.

    Mr. Upton Richards took me over the new houses, 80, 81, 2, 3 which were built for the Sisters, & explained that they had to be built like ordinary houses in case they had to be given up at the end of the Lease. The Sisters & Mother were then living in S. Elizabeth's Η & they had also No. 8 Margaret St. 1 made my first Confession in the Oratory there.

    I first saw Mother at S. Elizabeth's Home in /55 or /56. She & S. Sarah were in a small room there with one or two little girls.

    Mr. U. R. showed me the Rules for the Outer Sisters, which were just begun & asked if I would like to join; but I must consult my Father: he would not give his consent as he feared it might take my interests away from home. The Sisters then wore a plain black dress & small white collar - a close fitting cap with black strings like those worn by postulants.

All Saints Sisters of the Poor
  • An Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century
  • Edited by Susan Mumm
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001
  • This book introduces readers to the life of a Victorian religious community, both within the privacy of the convent and in its work in the wider world, based on documents preserved by the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor. It begins by using the memoirs of first-generation members of the community, a colourful and human introduction to the Anglican 're-invention' of monastic life in the second half of the nineteenth century. The section on government includes the power struggles between the sisters and the religious establishment, and the community's determination to retain its identity after the death of the mother foundress. The sisters nursed with the newly-formed Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, work recorded in a diary which discusses the difficulties and dangers of Victorian front-line nursing. Most of all, the documents reveal the challenges and excitement of the struggle to establish a women's community, to be unfettered in their work with the poor and suffering, and to govern themselves, in a world dominated by men largely hostile to their aspirations. SUSAN MUMM is lecturer in religious studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes.

  • II.1 - The Rules of 1855 and 1859

  • from PART II - Government
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 67-87

  • Summary

    (i) THE RULE OF 1855

    In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen

    The primary object of this Society is to provide a religious Asylum for incurables, aged and infirm persons in destitute circumstances, and to train up Orphan children to useful employments; and although other works of mercy may from time to time be added at the discretion of the Superiors, these shall always have the first consideration and hold the principal place in the work of the Sisters.

    It is also another object of this Institution to afford opportunities for persons apart from the world and its distractions to ‘perfect Holiness in the fear of the LORD’, to grow in the love of our HOLY SAVIOUR, and to show forth love to Him by acts of love to His poor and afflicted.

    To this end the Sisters are exhorted to lay aside all secondary motives, together with all love of self and of their own carnal wills, and to study in singleness of heart, and of purpose to make the love of CHRIST the end and aim of all their works, prayers and words - offering up each and every one of them to Him Whose they are, and Whom alone they should desire to serve.

    67, Mortimer Street,

    Feast of the Ascension, 1855.

    GENERAL RULES AND ADMONITIONS

    I Any person desirous of joining this community shall be received as a Probationer upon the recommendation of a clergyman, if confirmed by the Incumbent of All Saints', who has consented to act as the spiritual director of the Sisterhood, but she shall not be admitted as a Sister until she shall have passed a certain time of probation, the length of which shall be decided by the Director and Mother Superior of the House conjointly - who alone shall have power to judge of her fitness for the religious life, and either to reject her if they consider her vocation doubtful, or to subject her to a longer probation, as they may judge expedient. The shortest period of probation shall be one year and one day. If admitted to be a Sister she shall be required to give a promise of obedience to the Rules and Regulations of the Institute.

  • III.2 - Notes on the Novices' Rules and Regulations

  • from PART III - Life and Training
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 181-197

  • Summary

    CHAPEL

    Lay Novices Customs & Bye Laws

    RULES

    1. A novice should read her rules carefully once a week.

    2 If in doubt about a rule, she should refer to the Mistress or the Senior Novice

    3 When a Novice knows she has broken the Rule, she should confess it at chapter; if of Necessity, say so.

    4 She must not refer to anything said in chapter.

    5 At obediences she should tell Sr Eliza of any failure in work, to the inconvenience of another, either from forgetfullness or neglect.

    6 No Novice should speak to anyone of her interior temptations & trials, except to the Mistress.

    1. Novices must be in Chapel before the Office begins, or say they are late.

    2. Each Novice goes straight to her own chair. Novices should not kneel out of their place at devotions, unless their chair be filled by a Professed Sister.

    3. Novices must be in Chapel at 11.30.a.m. if the gong has not been rung. They may go at 11.20. Those Novices whose work prevents them from making their Examen after 12.0. must be in Chapel at 11.15. If there be no Instruction, the time is spent in Prayer, Spiritual Reading or copying out instructions.

    4. The Novices ought to be in Chapel at 4.15 p.m. & not leave till the Gong rings.

    5. The Novice whose turn it is to take the Compline Key, if in chapel should leave at 8.25.

    6. No novice may be fetched out of Chapel without leave from the Mistress or Sr. Eliza, nor may the Portress give any message during an Office without leave from the Mistress or the Assistant Superior.

    7. In coming out of Chapel the Novices do not pass before Professed Sisters or Choir Novices but in going to obediences, they may come out before the Lay Professed Sisters. In going up to Chapel they must not go before Professed Sisters.

    8. The Novices curtsey when the Revd. Mother, the Assistant Superior, the Mistress or Sister Eliza-pass their seats. If Novices be out of their place, they curtsey to every Sister on passing, & return Lay Aspirants’ curtseys.

    9. Lay Novices blow the Organ for Prime & Compline, for Thursday Litany, & Sunday & Festival Vespers - Vespers arc divided. Any Novice may offer to help another.

  • III.3 - Rules for Visitors and Outer Sisters

  • from PART III - Life and Training
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 198-204

  • Summary

    RULES FOR VISITORS AND OUTER SISTERS, 1872

    1 To keep silence until after Terce, and also from 10 till 12, and from 2 till 4, and after Compline. On Sundays and Festivals silence is to be kept only until after Terce and after Compline.

    II Not to speak on the stairs, or in the passages, and to go about the House and shut the doors quietly.

    III Not to ask any inmate of the House to do an errand without first obtaining permission of the Superior or Assistant Superior.

    IV To ask no questions concerning any of the inmates of the House, or the arrangements or discipline of the Establishment, except of the Superior or Assistant Superior.

    V Not to speak of, or canvass the affairs of other religious Houses, nor to talk of what they did, or of what happened to them whilst they were inmates there.

    VI To retire to their bedrooms at 8.30 P.M. unless they go to Compline, and then at once from the Chapel to their bedrooms. VII Not to go into each others’ bedrooms at any time without special permission, or to speak to each other through the partitions.

    VIII Not to lend books to each other without permission. No Roman Catholic books to be left about either in the Common Room or in their bedrooms. No newspapers to be brought into the Common Room.

    IX When desirous of speaking to the Superior or Assistant Superior they must inform the Portress: but may never waylay any Sister in the passage, or on the stairs, or go after her when at her work: neither may they go to any of the appartments appropriated to the Sisters, or to the Superior's room without permission. The Portress must be summoned by ringing the bell in the Common Room, not the call-bell.

    X Not to talk over the District,3 or any poor person, or any other work with each other. Those who visit in the District must receive their orders from the Assistant Superior, and give in their reports to her. This extends to all works connected with the Home.

  • III.1 - Rules for the Mistress of Novices

  • from PART III - Life and Training
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 179-180

  • Summary

    The well-being of a Religious Community depends mainly on the good training of the Novices. The Mistress should not only be wise, gentle, and devout, but humble, patient, and considerate, taking good heed that her Office occasion no feelings of pride or self-sufficiency, but studying by the grace of God, to lead her novices on, step by step, in true devotion with a view only to His Glory, and not of her own self-exaltation.

    RULES

  • 1. There shall be two Instructions for the Novices daily, morning and evening, for the purpose of guiding them as to the best method of performing their prayers and meditations and other spiritual exercises.

  • 2. There shall be 3 public obediences daily, at 9.30 a.m; 1 p.m; 6 p.m; at each of which the Novices will make all necessary enquiries respecting their duties and work, and ask for all they may require. The will also receive directions as to the employment of their time until the next obedience, in order that the Rule of Silence be not unnecessarily broken.

  • 3. Each Novice shall have one private Conference with the Mistress per week. The daily faults committed against the Rules must be acknowledged and corrected in public but not in the prcscncc of the Lay Novices.

  • 4. The Mistress must earnestly discourage any confidences which involve condemnation, either directly or indirectly, of the Confessor, Superior, or any of the Community, she should strive to impress upon them that all the Community should have but one heart and one mind, remembering that our Lord, by His Holy inspiration, has so joined and united them together, that they can never be disunited, but continue together in unity of mind, and the tie of Charity, which is the very bond of all perfection.

  • 5. The Mistress must not in any way usurp the office of Confessor, or the Mother Superior, or have any secrets from them, as regards those under her charge.

  • 6. Although the Mistress may vary the spiritual exercises according to her judgement, she may not introduce any new ones without the Mother's sanction - for example devotions that might be fitted for the Mistress, might not be such as would be suited for the Novice, She is also cautioned against overburthening them with devotional exercises.

  • I.1 - Memories of Sister Caroline Mary

  • from PART I - Recollections of the Society's Early Years
  • Edited by Susan Mumm, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    All Saints Sisters of the Poor
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 August 2018
    Print publication:
    31 May 2001, pp 3-45

  • Summary

    I have been told I ought to write records of our Community of All Saints Sisters of the Poor, being one of the very oldest Sisters left on Earth. I do not know how to begin, but think it best, at first, to record all I personally have known and been and done as belonging to the Community for nearly 60 years - that is from 1859 when I was made an Outer Sister, till I could obtain my mother's consent to receive the Habit. I was 18 or 19 years old when my dear father died early in 1857. He knew of my vocation and had spoken of it to our Father Upton Richards, when I was only 15. But when my mother became a widow, she felt she could not give me up altogether. She wished me to lead a life ‘out of the world and devoted to the poor’ in her home. Our Lord had called me, as a child of 12, to give up ‘father and mother etc. and take up the Cross and follow HIM’. This could not have been in any other way, but by becoming a Religious, and entering a Religious Community. The Lent after my father's death, I was allowed to spend at the House of Charity, then in Rose Street, Soho - a very bare, ascetic place; under the care of a devout woman, who was then Matron (before the Clewer Sisters took charge of the House). Mr J. C. Chambers of St. Mary's Crown St. was their Chaplain.

    I was able to have Devotional times and to take classes and prepare some of the inmates for Confirmation etc. and I was taken to the services at All Saints, Margaret Street Temporary Chapel - then in Titchfield Street, when the All Saints Clergy and Choir boys had a house, and also the Schools; for All Saints Church, and Clergy House were not then finished building. In the temporary Chapel, I was greatly impressed and helped by the intense, deep devotion of the congregation, and deep reverence of Choir and Clergy and Father Upton Richards' most beautiful, helpful teaching on the Passion.

    I once called at 82 Margaret St., the All Saints Home, with the House of Charity Matron, to take some flowers for a Sister, who was to be ‘Clothed’.

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