No Greater Love

This gently perceptive documentary observes the life of the nuns within the Carmelite monastery of Most Holy Trinity, established in London's Notting Hill in 1878. This likable, unselfish sect (not to be confused with the worldly, self-regarding Notting Hill Set) go about their lives in a prayerful manner, talk modestly and often humorously of their vocation and are extremely moving in their devotion to their perceived saviour and to mankind. A couple of days after seeing it, I read that convicts in Georgia are being offered the opportunity of completing their sentences by joining a Russian orthodox monastery. I felt rather attracted by the idea.