Spending time at a Benedictine convent is a chance to live to a different rhythm for Katherine Backler “When she hears the bell, the good Benedictine drops what she does ...” And so we would drop the washing-up (carefully, into the sink) and hurry through the cottage garden, up the drive and into the church at St Cecilia’s Abbey for the Office.I visited St Cecilia’s, a Benedictine abbey on the Isle of Wight, with a small group of women from my university Catholic chaplaincy last June. We were all beginning to think seriously about vocations – not necessarily to religious life, or religious life of the Benedictine sort – but vocations to “some definite purpose”. We stayed for three days in the guest cottage beside the abbey.St Cecilia’