In her autobiography A Lot Like Eve, the pro-life campaigner the Revd Joanna Jepson reveals how a retreat at the Anglican Tymawr Convent in Monmouth helped her overcome her doubts about priesthood due to her image of the clergy as dowdy. When a young novice confessed to envying her jumper, Jepsen was so relieved to find a nun with “sartorial awareness” that she disclosed her stumbling block. The sister encouraged her vocation and Jepson is now the chaplain to the London College of F
19 February 2015, The Tablet
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