YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH! Sister Patricia’s new order
‘I had to run away because my mother would not give her permission’
Positioned in a quiet neighbourhood in South Auckland’s Mangere Bridge sits an understated 1960s brown weatherboard home. A wooden sign by the front door reads ‘Ashirvaad’ (Sanskrit for ‘blessing’), offering a small hint about the group who has lived inside for the past 17 years.
Author and Catholic sister Patricia Williams – along with three other vowed women from various international orders – decided to
