Based on present modest, though comfortable, circumstances on the Isle of Wight, with need to travel to Mass.

Horarium when 'at home.' Things are informal at the moment but will ultimately be guided formally by the Church. Evolving circumstances will dictate the Horarium to some extent but the aim is to follow a standard Benedictine cycle of prayer.

Climbing the Mountain of the Lord - Silence and Solitude in Community

Early Rise. Prayer to the Holy Trinity. Personal Prayer. Lectio Divina. Office of Readings. Gospel of the day.

The Angelus at 6 will be the first fixed point of the day for the Community.

Personal prayer continued, tea, flasks, breakfast/pack breakfast, wash

Drive (10 minutes) to Chapel by the sea. Lauds, sung. 15/30 minute walk by sea.

Drive (20-30 mintes) to Mass (Abbeys of Quarr 9.00 or St Cecilas 9.30)

Personal Prayer before Blessed Sacrament

Terce plus Mass. Thanksgiving

Descending the Mountain of the Lord - Silence and Solitude in Community

Drive home

Manual work (plus study)

Angelus, return to manual work

Sext, sung

Lunch with reading. Dishes

Cells/Rest/Reading/Opportunity for walk.

The mission element of this Charism requires good health and adequate rest. It is important to build the opportunity for extra exercise and extra rest into the day.

And into Mission with Our Lady and St Carlo

None, sung

Internet work/ Mission work / Evangelisation through Beauty - Music, Art, Writing, including tea.

Creative work together always beginning with a decade of the Rosary and prayer to St Carlo and concluding with an Ave and Gloria.

The aspect of these things that requires internet connectivity and engagement with those contacting us online will be restricted to 3 to 4 afternoons a week.

One day a week will be reserved as a potential hermit day, after return from Mass.

The afternoons will also provide opportunity for study.

From Communion to Silence and Solitude

Manual work

Vesperas, sung

Rosary

Light supper, dishes

Recreation

Manual Work

Completorum

Cells/ Great Silence /Prayer to the Holy Trinity

On the Road / Away on Mission

This will need to be discerned together and with the Church. Mission circumstances are rarely ideal. The difficulties will need to be embraced in a spirit of generosity, good humour, poverty and sacrifice. It is my hope that, with time, invitations will shape themselves around our general pattern of prayer and praise, and that, indeed, our witness of prayer and praise will be intrinsic to our mission. But great flexibility and patience will be required when away from base and we will need to be completely bi-lingual liturgically.

As a first step please write to Admin@ukmiracles.com This will put you in conact either directly with Anna Johnstone, or with her Assistant, Shania Steele. After initial contact we can transfer to a private email/phone with Anna, as appropriate.

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'At this juncture I don't want to fill in too much detail. I hope to have a great deal of detail by October 2026, via two books - one on dear Saint Carlo Acutis and one on this Community. I believe we will have great clarity before we begin formally. But I hope that there is enough here to stir the hearts of those whom the Holy Spirit may be calling. And I am very happy to answer questions on a one to one.

The active dimension is presently mostly expressed through www.ukmiracles.com, but this is just a beginning.

The contemplative side is expressed in a desire to follow the Rule of St Benedict, and to sing according to the Chant of Solesmes.

I have already lived a wonderful, blessed life with Our Lord, that has spanned two continents, success and failure, sin and repentance, error and conversion. I have spent more than 25 years looking after people professionally; the young and the old, the well and the sick. By extraordinary grace this has included the role of Governess to the siblings of Saint Carlo Acutis, for three years. And I also enjoyed a professional singing career for 7 years. All this journeying has brought me to simplicity. I am astounded by the grace of simply being a baptised Catholic. I am astounded by God's mercy to me, a sinner. I am astounded by the call to Heaven. I am astounded by the Blessed Sacrament! I would be happy to leave this life tomorrow to go to God. But, equally, I am happy to begin this big Chapter 2 here on earth!

I have a confidence in the Rule of St Benedict as something that, together, we can safely abandon ourselves to. I have a confidence that the singing of the Divine Office will give us a freedom and joy as Religious, as Spouses of our Saviour. In giving first priority to this 'work,' which will help us 'always stay close to Jesus,' I think that our creative life and outreach will fall into place. The Rule of St Benedict will help us stay grounded and sound.

Practically, there is a modest starting base, with two wonderful Solesmes Abbeys close by, who can guide and inspire. There is the blessing for 'walking forwards' form our Bishop, the parents of Saint Carlo Acutis and from my spiritual director.

I am not presently veiled. Certainly I would like to be. I think that there is great value, in the times in which we are living, of a clear witness. Presently I wear a very long navy skirt and a light coloured blouse. I am sure that this detail will develop in the Lord's time.

One can only move forwards one step at a time. First of all, one needs to become two, two three, three four. How the next step will come about is a mystery in God's hands.

I very much hope that a proper beginning can be made in October 2026. That will then have to consolidate and settle. Between now and then is a continued time of preparation for me, and a time of enquiry for those who feel that God may be calling them to this. The enquiry can happen through conversation, meeting, accompaniment in the active work, and coming to stay in the starting base. Further retreats can also be organised, as necessary. It is all in the Lord's hands.

Dear Saint Carlo Acutis: Pray for us!'

Anna Johnstone, 3rd September 2025

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