[Salvation]

Now rest your eyes.

Thanks to A.A. Cunningham for the original link.

[beaversmom]

Communist Goals (1963)

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

I'm not Catholic and not a religious person, but I vote for Nuns with habits.

[SuziQ]

I realize the desire of many Catholics for nuns to go back to habits; it's good for women who have consecrated their lives to the Lord to be 'set apart' from others so that they can be continual witnesses to the love they have for Him. But the habits in that last picture are just too over the top even for me. I'm afraid the wimple is way too Middle Ages for my taste. I always felt sorry for the nuns who had to wear them; they always looked so uncomfortable.

The Dominican sisters have a modified habit that looks both appropriate and comfortable.

[Mach9]

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.

[bboop]

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.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you!

[grey_whiskers]

REASON ONE: GUILTY, BLEACHES MUSTACHE HAIR

REASON TWO: GUILTY, APPARENTLY ADDICTED TO THE SOUND OF HER OWN VOICE

REASON THREE: GUILTY, MIGHT AS WELL BE DATING REASON ONE

REASON FOUR: GUILTY, AND I'LL BE SOBER IN THE MORNING

REASON FIVE: GUILTY, RESEMBLES MAGNETO FROM THE X-MEN AFTER GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

REASON SIX: GUILTY, TOO UGLY FOR CODE PINK

REASON SEVEN: GUILTY, ATTEMPTING TO LOOK LIKE BAWNEY FWANK

REASON EIGHT: GUILTY, PRINCE CHARLES MEETS REGIS PHILBIN

REASON NINE: GUILTY, BUT LAZ WOULD HIT IT DUE TO TRACTS OF LAND

REASON TEN: GUILTY, HAS HAIR STYLED BY BEAVERS

Cheers!

[HarleyD]

I'm not a Catholic but I strongly support idea of nuns wearing habits, pastors wearing robes, etc. I am reminded of when God instructed Moses to make the tunic and robes for Aaron. God told Moses the following:

Exd 28:2 Make sacred garments for your brother Aaron, to give him dignity and honor.

We lose the idea of the dignity and honor of the office when everyone dresses like everyone else.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— There is no more approachable person you will find than a Catholic nun. -—

Yes. One more vote for habits.

The sixties are over, thank God.