She said she was encouraged by the 10 inquiries, mostly from older women, to her convent alone since the launch of the poster campaign. Contemplatives are getting more vocations in relation to our numbers than the activists. People ask you to pray for them or their loved ones, but they rarely ring up to tell you the results. Potential recruits are invited to spend a weekend at a convent. And dormitories have long gone.
Nuns have individual bedrooms now.
Both Roman Catholic and Anglican nuns insist that there are good relations between nuns in the two churches, and the joint campaign is proof of their co-operation. None of those interviewed by ENI identified great differences in the lives of the two communities. It is as though we have found the unity in Christ which our Churches are seeking.