Some of you may be old enough to remember London Weekend Television’s sitcom ‘Two’s Company’, staring Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden. The basis of the comedy is cultural difference as the banter between the brash confident American writer rubs up against the reserved, poised manner of her hired English butler. Thirty odd years later, the scenario remains largely the same. The Dublin postulants and have now become the Manhattan Novices, and two months into this yearlong adventure, I have been asked to provide some insights into the world of Religious formation, which, I have to say feels a bit like writing a postcard home. It is though a marvellous aspect of this life to find oneself in a culture so different from where my life began. A year in Dublin; a year in the USA, this is a collection of refreshing insights for a convert from Anglicanism who ecclesiology had been (as the name suggests, Church of England) nationally tempered, yet very quickly, after being received into the Catholic Church, have the opportunity the see the impact of faith in two very different countries other than my own. Of course, this is an experience the three of us share in different ways. Not a day goes by without some laughter that naturally arises around the ‘Brits abroad’ theme, except of course this isn’t a holiday, and the winter months in New York are not comparable to Benidorm! It is as if there is a little bit of Elaine Stritch and Donald Sinden in all of us here, and that makes for the experience to be that bit richer.