Change of Habit
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- The population of Catholic nuns in Western PA and across the United States is a quarter of what it was in the late 1960s. But even with their numbers dwindling and local convents shuttered, the revered Sisters aren't complaining or giving up, they're actually reinventing themselves. WQED's Michael Bartley takes you to several local orders of religious women to show you where they're working and how they see the future of Sisters.
I am currently discerning religious life and plan to become a Dominican sister. There is just something extremely beautiful about giving your entire existence to God, to do His will. I pray everyday for the increase of vocations.
I will pray for you young lady.
Mich Elle Thank you very much.
RealLifeAmerica Good luck and may your journey be filled with jpy!!
JOY***
I reccomend you dominican nuns of Wanganui.
The habit represents their roles in public and difference them from others. Now a days it's hard to know them in public without their habits. For me, the habit represent purity. The habit draws people to them. I do miss seeing them in their habits.
I am SO glad they are OUT of habits. I was a NY Foundling (orphan) so.....I could see through the habit of many cruel nuns. The good ones don't NEED a 'habit'. The bad ones use the habit to hide behind.
Purity...oh yes in The Magdalen places in Ireland and in countless classrooms wielding rulers and belts of leather. This is such a whitewash. People are dead and injured because of what I have mentioned and you sent picture after picture covering all of it up.talking about wimples and scapulars as if they mean anything at all.
As a teenage Catholic girl, I've thought about the religious life, but there's never a time I'd think of joining an order without habits. Nuns with habits are the most joyful people I've ever met.
+angelvy07 That's wonderful! Pray for discernment, and find a good Traditional order of nuns -- they're plentiful, and growing so fast, many are having to turn would-be postulants away for lack of space!
We can never have enough nuns. God bless you!
***** Thank you for the wonderful advice! :) I do know a few Traditional orders and think they're much better for me if I entered the religious life. God bless you, too! I'll keep you in my prayers :)
I'm thinking the same! I'll pray for you in discernment. If you like, we could also keep contact so we could help each other out. :)
God bless.
Wanda Ricca Thank you! I will be praying for you and your discernment, too :) My twitter is @VibrantCatholic if you'd like to keep contact through there or something :)
+angelvy07 so glad to read there are more ... me too I will enter religious life! God bless you!
I have been seriously considering the idea of becoming a nun. I think wearing the habit is one of the perks of being a nun!
I hope you give it a try. My son, a CPA, Certified Auditor, business owner, left everything three years ago to join the Norbertine Order in Orange County, Ca.
He is most happy. The Order has a Convent in Tehachapi. They are cloistered but also they have an active convent in Costa Mesa, Ca in Saint John the Baptist Church. Check them out. Maybe you’d like them. God Bless. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✝️✝️✝️
I will pray for your vocation. I will also pray that Satan won't succeed in shaking your faith. May God bless us with your vocation!
I think if wearing the habit is either a 'perk' or 'drawback', then you do not have a true vocation.
@@penelopecarterdougherty8575 What gives you the authority to speak in such manner?
Whomever decides to enter the religious life will not regret it but will feel so blessed. Please give it a try, don't be like me and regret that I didn't take the leap. God bless and protect all Religious Orders.
Rose Marie
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sister dressed in religious habit but when I do, I instantly think of God.
So do I.
i miss my aunt who is a religious nun. A nun's vocation is a tremendous work. They are not just praying. May God bless them & may numbers increase.
Nuns were different from Sisters. Even those nuns were each called or referred to as Sister, nuns seemed to have taken stricker vows, IMO.
It's sad that a lot of convents got rid of their habits. There's nothing more beautiful than a nun in a habit, not to mention we know who they are. It's hard to tell some nuns these days who wear jeans and tee shirts like lay people. They are women of God and not the world. There's a beauty in that.
A habit is just clothes. It has very little to do witg being a religious.
Amalgamaite the habit is just the dress acording to the time and place the particular order was founded. Example, Franciscans where what was considered a humble clothing in 13th century Italy -- sacloth and rope. You look too much on the outside. It is what's in the heart that counts.
Amalgamaite have any precedent with the church fathers? Or scriptures to back that up?
Amalgamaite The Good Lord dressed Adam and Eve in animal skins. Do you have any idea how hot they would be in a middle-eastern climate wearing head to ankle animal skin "habits"?
Amalgamaite do you know the difference between morals and ethics? Well dress code would fall under ethics, not morals.
I've been thinking about becoming a nun for a year. I've finally know that it is my path to become a religious sister. When I turn 18 in three years I'm going to join the Dominican sisters of mary. I feel such joy thinking about becaoming a sister and serving God. I could never think of not becoming a nun anymore.
Katelyn Schooley Explore other orders too, so that you make a sound decision.
Congratulations, may God always be with you.
@@isabelalzateestrada Thank you.
@@maryjurisons901 Don't worry I am but thank you.
Oh that is so exciting!! I’m very happy for you sister and I hope you may be carried with abundant graces and joy that will always inspire you to continue in the blessed walk of Christ ❤️
I have felt a calling to god recently, upon the discovery i could never have children. I struggled to sleep for months, until one night i dreamt of the lord, he told me to use my mothering instincts to protect those who cannot protect themselves. I believe that is my calling.
Yes. There's always the possibility of becoming a foster parent or working in a shelter youth group home. That's what I do. Jesus put it in my heart year's ago to work with the youth. It's very rewarding to make a youth smile after being taken away from their family home. I like that I do my corporal acts of mercy and also get paid too. 😉 God needs more helping hands
When I meet nuns in their habits. I feel deep respect because they pray for all of us everyday selflessly.
Where is the logic spiritual or otherwise in what you say?
Religious communities that maintain habits and a strong prayer and communal life are thriving. New traditional communities are also forming. It would be nice to see these communities featured.
I agree with your comment 100%
Wear full habits, be loyal to the teachings of the church and sisters grow. .stay in Habit
I am happy to say, though, that many of the new orders are going back to Religious dress. Many of the young women of today are disillusioned with the secularization of the orders. Look elsewhere on CZcams and you'll see many short videos on young women wearing Habits, modified or full.
Hi Sister Veronica, what is your view on the Third Order or Seculars which are a full part of some Religious Orders for example the OCDS ?
Hi, Joseph. I feel that the Third Order Seculars are a very necessary part of the Church. Not everyone is called as a Sister, Brother or Priest, but we are all called to serve in some way. So, it is a very real calling to serve and be a witness. I was a Secular Franciscan while I was still in the Army and before retiring to become a vowed Religious.
Thank you, Sister Veronica. I am glad you have a positive view. I hope to discern with the OCDS very soon. Third Order Seculars would seem to be a good option to explore for anyone who has ever wondered about the religious life, but was unable to pursue it. I like the fact that it is open to both men and women and to young and old alike.
I will keep you in prayers, Joseph. Many of my followers of my Twitter ministry are OCDS.
Thank you so much.
I cried watching this. I was born in St. Vincent Hospital of the SC of NY and then transferred to the NY Foundling Hospital run by the Sisters of Charity and then adopted and placed in SC schools from grade one through high school. When I became a mother of two daughters.....something was missing..........it took me a few years to realize what it was......and then it hit me!!!! I could NOT raise my daughters without the Sisters of Charity in my life and so I found them all and loved them again and introduced my daughters to them where mutual love abound!!!! The old habit meant a great deal to me. I so often RAN to the Sisters crying and buying my head in all that muslin...........however, when I began highschool ALL the nuns still wore the old habit. Within four years, only the old Latin nuns , two of them, still wore the old habit. I was THRILLED to see them in modern garb and did all I could to help them change. If you simply love nuns in the old habits.....you love an image. I was blest that my nuns were founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for MORE reasons than I can list. Now, most of my nuns have gone home....although, I am still friends with many others. It is because of these nuns that I know there is a heaven and that they are all waiting there to greet me. As a baby, toddler, student in a confused environment of abandonment and adoption and integration........the nuns became the 'standard' of how to love, comfort, heal and educate. How to be a friend and most especially......how to allow for the love of Jesus to lead the way.
May God bless the sisters for their selfless service
I really admire the practice of wearing a habit. It's a shame that this article explains dwindling numbers. Glad some are still keeping practice alive.
I loved the quote: "We might be small, but we're mighty." Great job!
I attend a convent of Benedictine Adorers who though whilst cloistered, are still visible to us behind a grille during all the 5 Divine Office services open to the public daily. I can tell you that being in such close proximity to these wonderful gifts to the Church is one of the most rewarding & humbling experiences imaginable!
My great aunt was a nun. Her dtess was very traditional full habit. She was a teacher,librarian, and would visit our family every summer.
The sister's comment on the importance of wearing the habit as an outward sign of God to the outside world is dead on right.
I agree. we have it similar in many institutions including court dress of barristers (attorneys) in the UK and before they were abolished white coats for doctors.
Yes wigs for judges...where is the inward and spiritual grace in anyone entering a convent convinced Jesus is the best date and other such pie eyed nonsense these women come out with justifying their way of life. They are talking about God not a crush...it sounds so stupid
A great video dedicated to the loving memory of those selfless workers, standing for a great cause. Thank you all those who are behind the work.
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I wanted to become a nun at 29, but was rejected. Now, I'm happy living a single life serving my community. I pray at home and continue to live a chaste life. I know I am a nun in God's eyes.
Interesting and may I hope the people mailing this propaganda also take note of what you said.
I loved spending time with the daughters of charity. They are very kind and full of joy 😊
Wonderful documentary. I wish it could have been longer. Evokes so many great memories of the good Sisters that taught me in the 50s & 60s and afforded me, I think, the best elementary school education. Just my opinion, but I truly miss the old habits. I guess some orders gave them up because they became impractical but I think the habit with veil does command a respect and reverence and is a visible sign in the world. Sadly, the two orders that taught me no longer wear a habit that even resembles what they once wore and one order wears simple clothing with just a small lapel pin or crucifix.
So 😢! Sisters were, and those that still wear the habit speak volumes of faith, hope, charity, and obedience. Their habits told the world that they were the brides of Christ. 🙏🙏❤️🎚️
I was educated in a Catholic School and a Roman Catholic myself. I have high respect for these Catholic Nuns who might be strict in class but there is something so pure reflected in their eyes, kindness in their voice and joy as they go about their tasks of the day.
Their being strict is a sign of love to discipline kids as young as they are not like America now who spoil their children so much...
You havent been near Ireland and I can guess for what reason.
@@sabrinawanderer7560 Yes rulers and that thing they wore on.their belts..So kind of them.
Habits are like Soldiers of God's uniforms. Nuns, Monks and Priests need to make their presence seen to the public. They are the representatives of God to the secular world.
Oh please the martial metaphors..We are not even in Israel.
How can they be..behind walls and grilles and wearing ridiculous attire and speaking like spiritual aristocracy,?
I don't think it is a coincidence that the semi cloistered, habit wearing order is experiencing more vocations. I think all of us Catholics are starved for all the beauty and tradition that was stripped away for absolutely no reason. If a young man or woman is going to enter religious life, they want to know that it is for a reason! The habit reminds them all day every day of the beautifully radical way they have said "yes" to God. I don't really buy the comment made by the Sister who said that these dwindling numbers are really more how things have been historically. Why were monasteries and convents built to house HUNDREDS of men and women centuries ago? I think deep down, these orders know they made a mistake by throwing the habit away. They have turned religious orders into just a bunch of women who do social work.
D. G. Just a bunch of woman? Yeah, 🌞 just a bunch of woman ❤️❤️❤️.
D. G.---I remember well when Vatican II rules were instituted in the parishes. Catholicism lost something beautiful when it became hard to tell the difference between a Catholic Mass and a Protestant Sunday Service.
Vatican II did NOT say to get rid of their Habits, but that they could modernize and modify. As Cardinal Arinze has said, many of the extreme modernizations, such as abolishing the Collar or Habit, were the result of taking things out of context so that they could follow their personal agendas, not the Church's. It became like a snowball going downhill. You will note that nowadays the pendulum is swinging back. More and more young men and women entering religious life want to wear distinctive religious dress. Many thanks and blessings.
sister I believe everything you say that is a very good comment
Many thanks and blessings.
I am so delighted to hear that.....A great diservice was done to the people when nuns and priests started looking just like the lay people......God bless the ones who kept the habits & collars..
I have a great respect for people like you. God bless you.
Sister Veronica I was privileged to go to Mother Angelica monastery in Irondale and truth be told I didn't want to leave. the peace and serenity and the beauty of the Nuns singing just rooted me to my seat,
It's odd that they don't cover their heads but are still nuns. In the Orthodox Church most married and lay women cover their heads in church and when they pray. In the past they covered themselves always outside the home; some still do (I know several Orthodox lay women who always wear a head covering). I've never seen an Orthodox nun uncovered like this. But I suppose this is just how different we've become. These young nuns from Steubenville seem to have good hearts. May God bless them all.
you have chosen Jesus beautiful life sisters.always be with him
You can feel Jesus around the buns and it's amazing to be in there presents. Amen thank u God for our beautiful selfless nuns!! Amen!
If they look like nuns they would get more respect I can't understand why they do not wear their habit anymore but I also cannot understand why priests don't wear their collar they should not blend in with other people they are not normal people They are the bride of Christ they should act like it
Very educational look at the people in the background of the 50’s and 60’s
So wonderful!! I used to want to be a nun as a little girl sometimes I wish I had the calling and discipline to become a nun..I love our Lord so much and I'll pray for our little mighty nuns..
God bless all of you. Thank you for your prayers.
In grammar school, the Dominican nuns wore the habits, and at college, the Sisters of Mercy did not wear except a few old ones, believe me, the nuns who wore the habits received much more respect and their message spread with affirmation and memories.
another great common I agree 100% with you
There are young congregations that are growing because many young women are searching for the fulfilling the longing of their hearts for the love of God. They will now be the example of that kind of love.
God our loving Father give us more NUNs with habits ....they look so amazingly graceful angelic.....just like I saw them when I was in school
May God bless you and keep you always Sisters! Thanks for posting this video.
There are many new religious communities of young women on fire for God and a life devoted to loving and serving him. These communities are habited, pray, live and work in the same apostolate. The orders dying out are more secular now than in the past.
Such a great show! For those of us that attended Catholic school it brings back fond memories of the Sisters that taught us. I work with the Sisters of St Joseph in Baden and admire, respect, and love them all
When I went to our yearly gathering of graduates and some sisters, the sisters were not wearing the habit. Our high school principal said to me….aren’t we ridiculous, Diana. I believe, as she did that people are more respectful and willing to accept their teachings when they see a sister in full habit.
Absolutely wonderful inspiring sisters.
When I was young and the Sisters got rid of the habit and most of the rule, instantly their numbers dwindled and so did their love for Christ and his people. They became embittered and thoroughly lacking in love for Christ, instead they turned to social justice. Regrettably many congregations of sisters (and Brothers) have died completely! The ones that are left have no habit and really do not fallow a rule at all. They also have a real hatred for Congregations that are knew and growing who have a habit and a rule, Like the Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist and Mother Angelica's Sister to name two. The Dominican Sister of Ann Arbor Michigan can't stop growing!!! God Bless them!
God bless and provide love in their hearts, peace in their witness and joy in their steps to minister to HIS children unceasingly in all things...✝️🌹...💖....Much love and prayers to all our sisters........From, your lay sister and convert............🥰.....'Blessed be HIS name' ! 💞
I love looking at old time pictures.
I agree. The habits set the women apart. I told my daughter that if she chose to be a sister, to join an order of teaching and an order which retained the habit. I remember as a first grader, before Vatican II, thinking that I wanted to be a sister like Sister Maria Feliz, who waltzed around the classroom in her long black habit, and "nun" oxfords. Why would anyone want to join an order where they were not set apart and considered a bride of Christ. Bring back the habits, and you will bring back the novices. People look at the unhabited as lesbian hippies and kumbaya nuts, I am sorry to say. The Adorers say they don't want to make people think they are "better". Then why bother? Sisters are called to be better; a light to the world. God bless the Francisans and the Dominicans.
Even as a Protestant, I have to say that nothing becomes a woman like a wimple and veil.
RELIGIOUS HABITS NEED TO BE WORN AGAIN🙏🌹❤️
WHEN THE YOUNG WOMEN COME TO THE CONVENT THESE
DAYS, THEY WILL FIND THE SISTERS AGAIN WEARING THE RELIGIOUS HABITS🙏❤️
I am a Sister of St Joseph of the Apparition. The apparition is that of the Angel to St Joseph telling him that Jesus is in our world taking life in Mary. So our mission is to witness to God's love among us still, wherever we are and through what we do...Many of our Sisters still wear the habit.. . I don't because of my work which takes me into very sensitive situations where a habit could easily be a cause of shame instead of healing. The people we help must take priority since we have chosen to follow Jesus to serve his people. Still our dress is very simple. The focus is not on what I look like, but on what my mission asks of me.
Henry Stoneking Mother Mary was no nun. In her time and place that was the way women dressed. God calls us in many ways. The nuns are doing a lot of good in this world, with or without habits.
"She mentally disarms them" - wow, that's like a superpower!
This was a great video. Growing up, the nuns I had encountered weren't exactly behaving in a holy way. This reassured my belief in their calling and vocation. The women in the video are amazing people, really brave and loving, I wish they could live forever!
I was raised by nuns back in the 60s and blessed them
So beautiful!! I have always been around nun having always studied in Catholic schools and college. People perceive their calling with so much of judgement. I changed my perception when i had a close encounter with nuns and their calling when I was in college, their sacrifice; it was fascinating to me. I have never uttered a negative word about them after that. I personally have not had a bad encounter unlike some who don't like nuns. But, as each sister said, God would make a way!! And I say, Amen to that. I loved their singing hymns with lifted hands in church, all catholic should be encouraged to do that. Beautiful.
I have have no pleasant memories of kind nuns. School was a trial of ugly days. Did not see any pictures of nuns with ruler's in there hands you know the ones that turned your knuckles black and blue when they caught you with your pencil in your left hand!!!..
Look at all these order that get rid of the habit, no vocation !nun with habit , like mother Theresa's order, Franciscan sister of the immaculate Or other traditional nun , they are flourishing , even priesthood , the Fssp and the institute of Christ the king , friary like Franciscan friar of the immaculate , Lord have mercy
💐🎀💐🎀 Peace to them, God bless them all 🎀💐🎀💐 Thanks for all your prears🎀💐🎀💐love from DK 💐🎀💐🎀💐 Thank you.
this is a lovely video there should be more sisters like this should a gentle caring life
They look younger than their age because they are young at heart. Age is just a number for them. Thank you Dear sisters.
Their smiles proclaim their love for Christ and for their joy in being the brides of Christ and their joy in serving Him!🙏❤️🎚️🕯️
God bless to all of you sisters! Keep up the good works! Mighty greetings from the faithful in Indonesia.
Thank you to the all the nuns to have taught me. Nancie from NE PA. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💕💕
Wonderful to see these Catholic sisters pray
Wow! This is a life full of joy and contentment..simplicity in life is the best medicine for all the chaos of this world..
Love love love!!!!
May Almighty God bless these pure vessels in their faith and perseverance and therefore, representing the beacons of Catholics all over the world
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I am from Papua New Guinea and my primary school teachers were the Holy Spirit Sisters. I have complete trust in them despite what people say about them. God bless you sisters.
Please pray for my son that he be cured of epilepsy.
Where are the habits? Even those many nuns here who teach, run homes for the elderly or disabled, work in the community preparing the children for communion and confirmation, wear habits. They may be simple navy or grey but they're wearing habits.
The Sisters of Charity were in mufti, I met a group recently at a service where a novice took his first vows as a monk, and they all wore habits. The youngest was only in her twenties, Mother Superior was in her sixties, they run a local hospice. My daughter attended a school run by the Daughter's of Charity, they wear habits. The Benedictine Tyburn nuns wear the traditional long black robes, the nearby Franciscans are in grey though the Friars wear brown. The Dominicans are in white, Friars and Nuns. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny who run a school (pre school to secondary), home for the disabled and nursing home for the elderly wear habits. Can't help wondering if that's the real problem in the US, no habits. You can't tell one from another, a nun from non-nun, one order from another. I feel sorry for the US.
Put the habit back on. Not just some nuns/sister but all of them! Your numbers will go up.
Fr: Las Vegas - Thank you for sharing.
Respect for these women. The reason there is decline in number of new sisters is because Church is no longer traditional. There is more activism towards social justice and fighting poverty but there is less stress on worship. which use to be an integral part of Church. People no longer find that special interest in Church anymore because there are many socialist and Atheists movements also fighting for social justice. There is a need that Church adopts that role again which not only fights social injustice but also heals pain and sufferings of people with prayers and worship. Without concept of worship Church is just not Godly anymore.
The special interest is now and always has been: Jesus who suffered for you!
Observer . Very true.
The Church is about sharing Christ’s redemption. There’s lots of man added “stuff”. Having a uniform to distinguish religious from laity is important but more important is the Light of God’s Love. We must remember we are here to serve and be the living witness. The Church needs some house-keeping. The pedophilies must be isolated from the parishes, maybe in seclusion for reflection and prayers.
This was a very well balanced documentary and showed both habited and non-habited nuns 🙏🏻
I love all religions. I absolutely love sister servants of Mary. Care of the sick and dying. God be with them.
I was educated by The Benedictine Sisters from Atchison Kansas and I have such fond memories of my time from 1952 till 1960. They made such a difference in American life. My class had 45 students and two years they put the class that was 1 year ahead of my class which added an additional 15 to the classroom. Teachers today in public school don’t teach nearly as many kids in a classroom and todays teachers don’t teach hardly anything. We learned so much and so well and the kids were all good kids. My father’s biological sister joined the Sisters of Charity in Leavenworth Kansas and I loved going to the Motherhouse to take my grandmother to see her daughter in the summer. She taught 8th grade and was the Principal of many schools all over the country. She was always so happy and had such a wonderful personality. I wish we still had them now. They made such a difference. I thought about it but I wanted to get married and have a family.
I wonder if that would change if they went back to wearing the habits. I know of many orders that wear full habits and they are experiencing lots of growth.
nuns with out a habit seems like thy are just a charitable organization.some thing like CRS feeding the hungry with out preaching the gospel.
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Sister sue is amazing..she is in my prayers
I had Latin class at FUS with Sr. Agnes years ago before she was a sister ♥️. She was always very sweet! Love to see her in the habit.
Every run is a credit to society and should be proud of standards they repesent because during the past 70 years and as Nuns increase their numbers children will learn to respect their parents.
keep up the excellent work that you do. you are brides of Christ.
The sister who is 101 in this video does look wonderful.
Lord bless the nuns💛
God bless the sisters and may they flourish again.
I am a vocation director for a religious order. One of the questions I always ask a new applicant is, "If we decided not to wear habits, how would you feel?" If a habit is central to them, then that's a big red flag. Religious life is SO much more than wearing a habit. If it's very important to someone, then what will remain when wearing a habit becomes routine?
With your superficial judgements, I doubt the order is flourishing.
Bless them.
The original alternative lifestyle....the true hero's of the gospel...always making a difference!
I had Sisters in Grade School and High School and am in relationship as an Associate of the Dominican Sisters of Hope these Women give hope to all in need
GOD BLESS THEM ALL.✝️
Enjoy your videos 📹. 📹 😊.
My husband grew up in a Catholic family, and was also taught by nuns that wore the habits.
Orders that wear the habit, and in particular those who use the Tridentine Mass, are flourishing and this should tell us something. The habit earned the wearer respect, even from the most Godless person. I remember being told about a habit-less nun who was mugged and had her bag stolen. She ran up to a policeman saying that she had been attacked. When the policeman started to take down the details she said "I'm a nun, who would do such a thing to a nun, have they no respect?" The policeman asked "why are you telling me about this attack?" She said "because you're a policeman." "How did you know I was a policeman?" he asked. She looked at him with a perplexed look and said "well because you're dressed as a policeman of course." He said "well perhaps if you had been dressed as a nun the attacker would have left you alone."
I like your comment it is very true what you say men should wear habits or some kind of identity
Yes, monks should wear robes or tunics, priests should wear colors and clerics or cassocks. I'm not picking on just the nuns.
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boo Herbert Habit or not, religious need to be respected..
God Bless you all! Praise the Lord!Death is life, so don't worry about passing on to Heaven!Sounds like the nuns will have more than worked for it! Alleluia! 👍😀😘😂😂😂🎶❤️🎶xxx Amen
I like the old photos of nuns in habit. I remember the modified habits worn by the nuns during my childhood in the early 70s. When they stopped wearing it I relentlessly asked Father why and he explained, "they will know you by your work and not what you wear." God's work is more important than what wear but how you treat others. The old days are gone.
Has the Police and Armed Forces taken your advice? If it was all about doing and not about being you would be right.
I went through discernment years ago, but I didn't become a nun, at the time I wanted to get into a more traditional yet more up to date, if you will order and I honestly didn't think they existed, Hmmmm now I know with this last order of nuns they showed, that was exactly what I was looking for back then and they did exist. I did stay with the carmelites in Salt lake and even then (early 90's) the call to religious life was dwindling. Kind of made me sad.
Aww there are so many like what you described now
Such very sweet Brides Of Christ!
Amen I love the sisters
No wonder vocations are down when the religious dress and act like it's just another day on the job.
I agree 100% with your comment
Sadly, that is too true. Blessings.....
Exactly, where is the set apart holiness?
I'm also considering of becoming a nun myself. I feel strongly about it too.
Nicely done. Thank you.
Please sisters wherever you are, return to the habit and the vocations will return. I know it's a fault of mine and I feel terribly judgmental on my part, but priests and nuns who don't dress traditionally causes my attitude towards them to change. I know that's wrong and I try to have charity but it's kinda psychological. I can't help but think that others, including those seeking a vocation think the same. I've noticed the more traditional the order the more successful they are. Their is nothing more pleasing to the soul and heart to see a traditionally dressed nun it brings joy and peace.
I agree that the public corporate witness of wearing the habit is something that gains automatic reverence and respect and often makes people check their own behavior. However are those people changing behavior from their own hearts or because of an external stimulus such as seeing the nuns in habits? I certainly respect them and all that they do. Im a nurse and I cant imagine wearing a habit in ICU taking care of patients . That said I cannot thank the few nuns who were wearing habits to help guide me when one of my sweet siblings was terminally ill in the hospital. We ( elderly cardiac patient mother and I ) even stayed in their old quarters as there were no more "nurse nuns" in training or living at that hospital any more. The austere rooms really made one think especially when you have loved ones on deaths door to realize that we really dont need all the trappings of this world to have that contentment that comes from God.
.I grew up in the Catholic chuirch. I have to say Sister Mary Sheila looks uncannily like my late grandmother, who was a devoted member of St. Stephens Church in Oil City, PA. -less than 2 hours north of Pittsburgh. Perhaps it is just the "gentle faces" described here in this segment, but it brought great memory to me. God works in mysterious ways,