I was a Primary School Teacher until a chronic illness  forced me to retire early in my mid
  -forties. Because of the illness, I was unable to enter a Religious Community, but I
    had already made  my ‘OBLATION’  (a promise), to live a ‘RULE of LIFE’ as an
  ‘OBLATE’  of S. S. C. Therefore, with the  Permission of the Convent Visitor, the backing
    of S. S. C., the support and guidance of an excellent  Spiritual Director and the permission
    of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon , I was allowed to live or first one year and then
    a further three years under‘TEMPORARY’ Religious Vows.
    
    At the end of those four years further permission was given to enable me to take before
    my own  bishop, my ‘LIFE VOWS’, of  ‘SIMPLICITY, CHASTITY and OBEDIENCE’.