Rev. Sr. Beuno OP

The call to serve God came early in Sister Mary Beuno's life. At the age of ten she wanted to be a missionary but her Sunday School teacher was not encouraging, he didn't think her brainy enough.

At the age of 14 she was working in the local bank and taking correspondence courses in scripture. Having passed all the exams she worked in the parish, taking the Sunday School, playing the organ and in fact being involved in all parish activies. Having ideas of becoming a Sister in the Anglican church she investigated both teaching and nursing orders and decided to take her SRN training which she did at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.

Whilst there she met the Dominican priests at Blackfriars and the Dominican Enclosed Nuns. After much heart-searching and a course of instructions she became a Catholic in 1954 and then went to London's East End to do a midwifery training. She then tried her vocation in the Dominican Enclosed Convent in the Isle of Wight.

Realising God had other works awaiting she transferred to the Stone Congregation of Dominican Sisters and was Clothed and Professed in the same.

Since being professed life has been very interesting and varied e.g. nursing in schools for the physically handicapped and maladjusted, in geriatric and private nursing homes and also working as a bursar.

Sister was elected Prioress of the Leicester Convent and whilst there was involved helping the local parish clergy and broadcasting on Radio Leicester. In 1978 Sister was the first Parish Sister of Hinckley, working with the Dominican Fathers. The experience gained over 5 years there was a good basis for being Parish Sister here in Cotgrave and Keyworth.