Community of St John the Evangelist

			
CSJE

			

			
Founded 1912

			

			St Mary’s Home, Pembroke Park

			Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

			Irish Republic

			

			Tel: 1 660 2904

			
		

	

	

		 
	



Founded in Dublin in 1912, CSJE was an attempt to establish Religious Life in the Church of Ireland, although it
did not receive official recognition. The founder believed that a group of sisters living hidden lives of prayer
and service would exercise a powerful influence. When he died in 1939, there were twenty-four professed sisters
and six novices.


From the 1930s, the Community had a branch house in Wales, which became the Mother House in 1967. In 1996, however,
the Sisters returned to Dublin to the house originally taken over in 1959 from the Community of St Mary the Virgin.
(This CSMV was not connected with the CSMV sisters at Wantage, but was a small community founded in the 1890s which
had never grown beyond nine members.) The present house was formerly a school and then a home for elderly ladies
of the Church of Ireland. It is now a Registered Nursing and Residential Home under the care of the Community but
run by lay people.


The remaining Sisters of CSJE continue to live the Religious Life to the best of their ability and leave the
future in the hands of God.


Sister Ann Dora CSJE

(Sister Superior, assumed office February 2000)





For further details, obtain a copy of 

The Anglican Religious Communities Year Book.