Posted on 05/17/2012 5:49:22 PM PDT by Salvation
The Dominican sisters have a modified habit that looks both appropriate and comfortable.
All orders should go back to the old habits. Sisters and
nuns are set apart and people recognize the fact.
The sisters I knew growing up were the Presentation Sisters.
I remember before the awful downgrade, I was driving through
a little town in Iowa, the Church was on the main street and
driving past it, there stood a thin and fairly tall sister talking to a child, she was in the full habit, she was so beautiful.
Same for the priests, a young priest told me he wears his
cassock when he travels, in airports, etc. He felt people
were more at ease, drawn to speak him because of seeing him in the traditional cassock. The cassock is wonderful. And, no one likes when you see a priest without his collar.
Sorry but they look too much like burkas and hijabs. There’s a reason this kind of dress is banned in France! I don’t want to be reminded of Muslimes all the time!
What does washing men’s feet have to do with women wearing habits?
Dykes tend to prefer environments where they are only around other women. A lesbian nun is not necessarily really Catholic, which is all the more reason to exclude them from being nuns.
I tend to note that, if you want to see a social order where patriarchy has been eliminated, just look at any underclass neighborhood. Stripped of their patriarchal ("rule by fathers") roles and duties, men tend to fall apart and lose interest in holding society together.
Hello, The Trinitarians of Lowell are just 4 miles from our house and their chapel is my choice for daily Mass. God bless their new vocation.
The arguments for habits pretty much disappeared after Vatican II which unfortunately coincided with the feminist movement and ERA-pursuit in this country. The “awakening” of women not only ruined or eliminated the traditional habit, it also killed all the reasons for wearing it: Dying to the world, burial of self, humility, pursuit of grace, subordination to a rule, community of God, modesty, and the list could go on. It was the symbol of lifetime service to God and it affected nearly every aspect of their personalities. It changed their movements, guarded their speech, dictated their behavior. There was no “I” in nun—no fond memories of former lives related to each other or to students, no last names, no degree-letter appendages or the replacement of Sister with Doctor.
The habit’s loss is just the sign of greater losses.
We have a cloistered convent down the street, a retreat center next to our church, and a group of Mother Theresa’s nuns around the block. All of them wear habits; I love it when they are in church. Sometimes we see them, two by two (not the cloistered ones, of course) walking in the neighborhood. I think they are beautiful.
Very well said.
I remember well the Franciscan sisters who taught me through 12 years of Catholic school. Dedicated, holy women. Sadly, their order these days seems to have gone the way of the Dominican “pro-choice” harpy pictured here.
Thank-you!
That is why the patriarchy has been attacked by all communist radicals—the feminist “movement” and the homosexual “movement”—to destroy the civil society. Without strong, intelligent, moral, independent thinking men—there would be no USA—no fortitude—no risk-takers. Women alone are pretty pathetic and hormonal. Extremely few are like Margaret Thatcher and those few need support from men-—just as men always needed strong moral women behind them to free them up, so they could do great things.
There would not have been a brilliant John Adams free to devote much of his life to the intellectual formation of this greatest nation, if his wife hadn’t taken charge of the kids and farm when he was absent for years. Great countries need women and men working together for a moral good. There is no moral good when women do not raise their own children....their traditions and morals do not get passed down and men have to worry about their kids when they can not trust their wives.
I saw that too! IMHO, being pro-choice does not necessarily mean pro-abortion. Maybe Ms. Quinn was pro-Catholic.
Is there a place for both habits and dressing like the rest of the world? Just a thought.
"But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven." 1 Corinthians 11:5
Yes. I question rules which are mis-attributed to scripture. If human extrapolations of scriptural rules are followed, fine, just acknowledge they’re human extrapolations.
I’ve never considered a lady outside of a habit a nun...my vote is for habits.
The cornette may have vanished in France but it was still seen aplenty at St. Catherine Hospital, Montgomery, AL in 1963.
It disappeared not much later, courtesy of Vatican II.
You do realize that Scripture teaches us that Scripture isn't comprehensive don't you?
1. Well yeah it is, it’s murder.
2. Sola Scriptura. ‘nuf said.
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