Table of Contents

Contents Introduction PART ONE: LIVING IN THE BIG HOUSE 1. The Household 2. Earliest Memories to My Eleventh Year 3. Life in Simmonscourt 4. From Boarding School to My Father's Death PART TWO: RELIGIOUS LIFE 5. Discerning a Vocation 6. Formation Years 7. Embarking on a Healthcare Profession 8. Rome 9. Difficult Years 10. Momentous Seventies PART THREE: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 11. Adjusting to a New Life 12. New Openings 13. Unexpected Happenings 14. Into a New Century Epilogue Postscript Appendix I: Outline of the Grounds Appendix II: Plan of the Inside of Simmonscourt Appendix III: Family Tree Photo Section

About the Author

Catherine McCann is the author of Who Cares? A Guide for All Who Care for Others, Falling in Love with Life: An Understanding of Ageing, Diary of a Hippie: Journeying through Surgery, Saying Yes to Life: A Way to Wisdom, Time-Out in Shekina: The Value of Symbols in Our Search for Meaning and an abbreviated version of her doctoral thesis, New Paths Towards the Sacred: Awakening the Awe Experience in Everyday Living.