Includes; details of the Profession of Presentation Sisters of Matlock [England] Convent.
Includes; Federation of the Presentation Sisters.
Includes; agenda for meeting; list of attendees; letter addressed to "Rev[erend] Sister" listing bullet points of federation meeting (2 February 1971).
Includes; appears to be a transcript of a talk given on the how the changing Constitutions of the Presentation Sisters were reflective of the fast changing society of Ireland (unsigned).
Includes; motivations and dynamics leading to the Union of the Presentation Sisters.
Includes; transcript of talk given by Archbishop of Milan John Baptist Montini who became Pope Paul VI on the importance of women in the Catholic Church and the realities of falling vocations to female religious congregations and how the Sisters needed to move beyond enclosed existences and become more integrated into the communities in which they lived.
Includes transcript of talk under the headings; "The meaning of the consecrated life", "A certain degree of contemplative life", "Liturgy and contemplation", "Community life and witness", "Question of dress once more".
Includes; talk on the importance of prayer.
Includes; reference to Vatican II and its call for congregations to re-examine their way of living and update and renew their religious life and the challenges this had set for the Presentation.
Includes; transcript of questions and answers meeting with the Archbishop concerning the Union of the Presentation including questions from Mother Thaddea, Mother Aloysius and Sister Lucy [Troy], reference to "commissions" formed to "… work on a particular aspect of the way of life of Presentation Sisters …", more in-depth explanations of what a Union would be, recommendation that two thirds of the Sisters support the Union before moving forward on it.