Catherine Coldstream
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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You felt like you'd gone back in time to somewhere that was sort of almost magical in its beauty.
OK, well, I suppose the cell idea had come down from the caves the hermits used to live in.
So the idea was you had your own space that was completely dedicated to your relationship with God and to your solitary life of being a hermit and seeking God.
So each of us had basically it was like a cell.
It's a medium-sized or smallish bedroom.
Some monasteries have much smaller cells because they're purpose-built.
But because we were using this, we had this great big old period house, the rooms were quite big, actually.
So we had a sort of medium-sized bedroom and it was like, you know, plain.
When I first went, I think it was wood floor.
And then at one point, I think they put some lino down, which...
It seems awful today, but the walls were plain.
They were like a creamy, we call it distemper.
It was like a sort of creamy chalk paint, off-white.
We had no images or decorations or anything like that.
There was an enormous great black wooden cross on the wall.
When I say enormous, I mean it was kind of about four foot high.
I mean, it wasn't like a little crucifix.
And there was no figure of Christ on the cross.
And this was because you yourself were meant to become the sacrificial figure on the cross.
So you were meant to think all the time in terms of being crucified with Christ, offering your life as a sacrifice.
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