The task begins - Beechworth: beginnings in a bank - Foundations at Wangaratta, Ararat, Rochester: internal tensions erupt - Fortiter et Suaviter - Training of teachers - Four further communities - Victorian Brigidines' Golden Jubilee - An Australian Mother General and the saints of the Congregation: the Lay Sisters - Immigration, expansion and teacher training - Brigidines on the move - Vatican Council II (2) - The Novitiate - New thrusts in education - Changing habits - Views from the inside - Recollections of past students and present employees - The eighties, the centenary and beyond - Wisdom women with a passion for possibility