http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/ Catholic Sisters and Nuns in Today's World Thu, 24 May 2012 22:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23685 Jean Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:32:49 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23685 Joan - Your comments about your habit are very interesting to me. Years ago, an older priest (a Dominican, actually) I met while working said within my hearing, "She wears a lovely habit'. Needless to say, I "beat feet" out of there so fast that that old priest's cassock is probably *still* blowing in the wind I left in my wake. Now, I wish so much that I could find him and ask what he meant, especially in the context of all the discussions of habits. (I was in pants and a t-shirt and may not have been able to brush my hair yet that day because of the assignment I was on). Thank you for that invitation to pull apart the language, Joan. Joan – Your comments about your habit are very interesting to me. Years ago, an older priest (a Dominican, actually) I met while working said within my hearing, “She wears a lovely habit’. Needless to say, I “beat feet” out of there so fast that that old priest’s cassock is probably *still* blowing in the wind I left in my wake. Now, I wish so much that I could find him and ask what he meant, especially in the context of all the discussions of habits. (I was in pants and a t-shirt and may not have been able to brush my hair yet that day because of the assignment I was on). Thank you for that invitation to pull apart the language, Joan.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23676 Joan OP Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:08:58 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23676 I have just discovered your site and am looking forward to becoming a frequent visitor. I would like to contribute one comment about the way people see us today. Our constitutions describe our habit as consisting of a cross, ring and appropriate dress. A serge habit like the one I wore for years after entering would today make me stand out as "eccentric" and against the ideals of poverty ........ cream serge is not cheap to purchase. So, although I don't look like the Sisters of old I am not unhabited. I believe that until we change the way we describe ourselves we will not change the way people think of us. When someone asks me why I am not wearing my habit, there are very few occasions when I cannot say with truth "I am". I have just discovered your site and am looking forward to becoming a frequent visitor.
I would like to contribute one comment about the way people see us today. Our constitutions describe our habit as consisting of a cross, ring and appropriate dress. A serge habit like the one I wore for years after entering would today make me stand out as “eccentric” and against the ideals of poverty …….. cream serge is not cheap to purchase.
So, although I don’t look like the Sisters of old I am not unhabited. I believe that until we change the way we describe ourselves we will not change the way people think of us. When someone asks me why I am not wearing my habit, there are very few occasions when I cannot say with truth “I am”.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23605 DJC Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:18:43 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23605 Thank you and God's Blessings to all who choose to live a Consecrated Life. Thank you and God’s Blessings to all who choose to live a Consecrated Life.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23494 Jean Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:42:47 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23494 Thanks, Sister Julie. It is my sincere hope that my posts did not offend anyone. The anxieties and issues that have arisen in the discussions of the Apostolic Visitation clearly hit upon some very powerful and salient questions for me; and the writer in me is sometimes overly-exercised (literally and figuratively) by blogs and e-mails. I am looking forward to others' thoughts and questions. Hope you made your deadline. Thanks, Sister Julie. It is my sincere hope that my posts did not offend anyone. The anxieties and issues that have arisen in the discussions of the Apostolic Visitation clearly hit upon some very powerful and salient questions for me; and the writer in me is sometimes overly-exercised (literally and figuratively) by blogs and e-mails. I am looking forward to others’ thoughts and questions. Hope you made your deadline.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23452 Sister Julie Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:52:06 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23452 Thanks, Jean! Sorry I haven't been able to respond yet to your reflections on the previous post. I've been thinking on everything that was written. Am trying to get a deadline finished and then will return to the post. Blessings! Thanks, Jean! Sorry I haven’t been able to respond yet to your reflections on the previous post. I’ve been thinking on everything that was written. Am trying to get a deadline finished and then will return to the post. Blessings!

]]> http://anunslife.org/2009/02/08/world-day-for-consecrated-life/#comment-23450 Jean Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:25:09 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=1814#comment-23450 Sister Julie - Thanks for the link to "From the Pews in the Back" and for your piece there and for you. Happy WDCL! Sister Julie – Thanks for the link to “From the Pews in the Back” and for your piece there and for you. Happy WDCL!

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