#Sister Monica Joan

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Sister Monica Joan and her telly 📺

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Every episode of Call the Midwife

Narrator: In Autumn, all souls feel the rot but the rot allows flowers to grow and spring will come again. The war absolutely hollowed out communities but also there was jam. Nonnatus house had nuns in it but they were cool nuns. As the weather turned, those in need were ever more vulnerable and we did what we could.

Trixie: I cannot fix this with rouge, Matthew *perky hair toss*

Sister Monica Joan: Aristotle had heard of glaucoma, why won't anybody listen to me, also I've sat on the swiss roll.

Sister Julienne: Nonnatus house may be repossessed/ demolished/ infested with weevils. Our future is uncertain, but damnit the women of Poplar need us.

The Irish One: I love coloured tights but also I've done the autoclave

Harrowing music begins as we watch an unwed teen mother/ man addicted to meth/ victim of some sort of domestic horror/ woman with pre-ecclampsia

Nurse Crane: There you go lass

Harrowing storyline is briefly featured again but also there's a pregnant dog in Nonnatus House.

Dr Turner: Let's give her Pethidine, also I'm progressive about (insert topical issue here)

Sister Julienne: Nonnatus House is a metaphor for the morals of this country and that's why we're going to the dogs

Random Nurse: Actually sister Julienne I think we should teach teenagers about contraception

Sister Monica Joan: We simply must have compline now

Compline and the harrowing storyline (which has now reached its apex through either a harrowing birth scene or some other medical procedure) are now interspersed in a way that is troublingly close to saying suffering is fine actually because Jesus.

Sheelagh: Oh Patrick

The harrowing storyline is now resolved, often with some more voiceover that references the vagaries of the turning world

Trixie: Matthew, I have solved it. And I have put on rouge. I can have it all except a consistent haircut.

Fred: The dog's had puppies, and this will save Nonnatus house.

Narrator: In the worst and dank places, in the creeping dread of the dark soil and the night loam, even as the rotting leaves seep in, there too is love and life. Also someone had a revelation. The end.

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If Call the Midwife continues into the 80s they should have Sister Monica Joan kill Margaret Thatcher

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I started watching Call the Midwife, and I have decided that I want to be Sister Monica Joan when I grow up.

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Don’t know why but I fully believe that Sister Monica Joan has killed a man. I also believe that Sister Evangelina and Sister Julienne helped her hide the body. I have no evidence for this I just feel likes it’s something that happened one time

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Me at all hours of the day

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Sister Evangelina: Reverend Mother, I have sinned.

Sister Monica Joan: I, too, Reverend Mother.

Sister Julienne: What is this sin, my children?

The nuns look at each other, then reveal from under their robes the bus route map and Dr. Turner's morning rounds list, knowing they have helped their former sister to finally meet with the doctor who loves her.

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For the first time in its history, Call the Midwife fans have a two-part Christmas special to look forward to ahead of new episodes in the New Year.

Rather than the traditional 90-minute instalment, the BBC has confirmed that there will be two 60-minute episodes, which will also include a Christmas cliffhanger.

"Who doesn't love finding an extra, unexpected present underneath the Christmas tree?" said creator and writer Heidi Thomas OBE.

"When I was asked to write a two-part Christmas special for 2024, I couldn't resist!"

Executive producer Dame Pippa Harris added: "For the first time, viewers can luxuriate in a two-part festive treat this Christmas. Heidi has created a spellbinding special which I know will delight our loyal fans."

Director of BBC Drama Lindsay Salt hailed Call the Midwife as "one of UK television's most popular festive traditions".

She continued: "And this year we wanted to go even better, with Call the Midwife's biggest Christmas ever!

"Heidi and the team have lined up an absolute treat, with two irresistible episodes packed full of everything fans will love about this very special series at Christmas time."

All of the "well-loved characters" will be back for the two-parter, which picks up in Christmas 1969.

The midwives are "all busy delivering babies and doing the job they are most dedicated and committed to", while Poplar also welcomes a funfair, which adds "a burst of colour and excitement to the frosty landscape".

But there will be challenges, including influenza and the Hong Kong flu, not to mention an escaped prisoner.

As the neighbourhood prepares for a carol concert, "fears grow that he may be in the local area after a spate of break-ins".

Elsewhere, "the Turner children are caught up in the fever surrounding the Blue Peter Christmas appeal to collect dinky cars and scrap metal, Trixie makes a fleeting visit to Nonnatus House and is delighted to see her brother Geoffrey, and Miss Higgins has her grandson Harry stay for Christmas".

Violet also has her hands full hosting a mince pie competition, "but the Buckles' preparations for Reggie’s homecoming are thrown into turmoil".

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Rosalind and Nancy seek solace with the nuns in the chapel (13.3)

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Sr MJ: I am not known for relishing the limelight…but today we come in praise of someone who seeks it even less.

She has been present at the opening of a thousand pairs of eyes…and witnessed the closing of a thousand more. She has soothed the sick and fed the hungry. She has given counsel, offered consolation. And she has dried tears.

Sr V: She has performed a mother’s work for decades. And like a mother she has sought no thanks. But in every house and every street there are women and children, and mothers, who love her. And these are the tokens of their regard…for Sister Julienne from the Order of St Raymond Nonnatus.

~ S13 Ep 8

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Teddy and Sister Monica Joan

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The prevalence of raffles

CtM S12E02

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Sister Monica Joan has done some extraordinary and out-of-left-field things over the years. The running away, the bartering for giant Christmas trees, going out to find her TV set (rightfully so) and watching it from outside the seamen's mission, taking in the dog and naming him "nothing"...

But that did not prepare me for her bringing home a recently deceased Poplar woman into the chapel in order to watch over her and have the ceremony prior to the funeral. There was the ceremony for baby April back in season 4 but that was someone else's idea.

This nun is really something else. Who would have thought that we would get more than a dozen seasons with her when she had pneumonia back in 1957? Maybe it's the refusal to go back to the Mother House, or Dr. T's exemplary care. Or it is living with so many young people that keeps her alert and interested.

over the holidays I had a few conversations about faith and the church with my mother and we agreed that the main part of the appeal of being in church is the community. We watched one CtM episode together, the one with the diabetic teen girl falling pregnant and Sister Mary Cynthia joyfully and humbly caring for people of four generations in the traveller's camp. That led to more conversations about getting old and who will be there to care and what do we expect in old age.

And all in all I believe Sister Monica Joan has a splendid arrangement in her old age. I could go without the religion but at least all the praying and singing keeps one occupied. Now because she is well cared for this particular old woman can go on caring for other people, and with a wide variety of people as well.

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gotta love that one time sister monica joan gets fed to the back teeth with everyone's shit and

nopes tf out of nonnatus house in the middle of the night without telling anyone

stops to pawn her mom's jewelry so she can buy warm clothing and some stout shoes

walks all the way to fucking berkshire, a journey of sixty miles or more, which she undertakes in the dead of winter despite a) having pneumonia and b) being almost ninety

gets to her ancestral home and goes "ah yes lovely i was born here and now i shall die here btw i kinda miss my childhood dogs"

thus alarming the hippies who are squatting in the manor house, who then desperately try to keep monica joan from actually dying

only for her to be rescued by her primary tormentor who while a major grump is no slouch in the brains department

that whole two-parter was just *chef's kiss*

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