My name is Brother Martin Quarmby and I am a member of the Province of Oceania and live in Sydney, Australia. When I reflect on my vocation to Hospitality I look back on more than 50 years of religious profession. After I made my first vows I studied psychiatric nursing – a field in which I found great satisfaction. The vulnerability of our mentally ill patients challenged me to be a true ‘brother’ to them. It gave me even greater satisfaction to see many of our patients become well again as psychiatric care and treatment improved. I know that I could have been quite effective in psychiatric nursing as a lay man but I found in my religious community the encouragement and support that I needed at a personal level. I discovered that being ‘brother’ to someone is a two-way street! My work in the field of psychiatry also gave me the necessary skills to work for some time in an addictions centre for Australian Aborigines when I was seconded by my Province to be a member of a two-man team of Brothers to go to the assistance of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia when they had some difficulties with an addictions centre that they had established with a charismatic missionary priest, Rev, Maurice Toop. The Sisters also take a vow of Hospitality and it was wonderful to see how our two different ways of expressing that charism complemented each other