The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is proposing to mount an exhibition to recount the story of Catholic sisters and their work in the United...
That exhibition would not open until some time next year at the earliest. The Smithsonian's American history museum is undergoing renovation and is scheduled...
Wow had so many emails regaring the traditional Josephite habit. I promise I will look through my old pictures and see what I can come up with. Speaking of an...
That's pretty neat. :) I know quite a few Sisters Augustines of St. Monica, and they have white habits in summer and black in winter (both with a green ribbon ...
... Gemma......My apologies for my previous message. I now realise that you are looking for the web site of Sisters Augustines of St Monica from Anna Bass....
Gemma, The original habit worn by the Divine Redeemer when He appeared to Ven. Maria Celested does not have a blue scapular. This scapular was added by St....
I googled "Adoration Sisters" looking for something else, and the 1913 edition of Dehey's book is at the top of the second page of the results! Blessings, ...
The Redemptorists wear a very elaborate 15 decade rosary that drapes more than half way around their left side. I wonder if the Redemptoristine Nuns had the...
I was up at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last Friday, and was able to speak with a young RSM of Alma (MI). She was working at the bookstore. (I...
I'll see our Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul on occasion at Wal-Mart. Elizabeth saw the RSM and TN OP at the Shrine. Anyone else? Blessings, Gemma...
... Here in Norwalk,Ct,we have the only American house of the Sisters of St.Thomas of Villanova. They still wear a modified habit and I see them out and about...
I work for the Little Sisters of the Poor so I see Sisters in habits every day... your brother John McHale ************************************** AOL now...
In the fall of 1992 I went with some monks to a Charismatic convention in Anaheim CA and saw a St.Joseph sister wearing the old pre Vatican habit. It seemed...
I saw one the summer after I became Catholic (Feb. 1980). I asked her what order she belonged to, and she said, "Sisters of St. Joseph Blessed." There were...
In my OPINION, had the sisters not abandoned the habit, we wouldn't be having this problem. I realize the habit had to be modified, but completely disregarding...
This little story is somewhat related to our current conversation. When I was a kid I was in NYC visiting Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Probably the entire...
Sounds like your kid mind was more creative than most adults'! Cute story! Blessings, Gemma ... conversation. When I ... Probably the ... As I was ... ...
Are you talking about the CSJ's? There are a few of the "older" sisters that have retained the habit and never changed. Interesting that this particular...
how do you clean a rosary? i have some with string and plastic beads which i soak in water and some dishwashing detergent. but what would happen to those...
We never wash the rosary, we restring it. Right now mine is DIRTY and needs to be done. The monastery in Farmington Hills, MI used grey cord so that the dirt...
Yes I was referring to the "plentiful" St.Joseph of Carondelet Sisters then. I was kinda shocked to see one wearing the old habit and this was fall of 92'....
Yes, the electrical tape look around the wrist is the undersleeves made from the same veiling material (called nuns veiling) which is somewhat transparent....
For some branches the cincture was made of a heavy woven fabric that was the equivalent to basting tape. It was hooked in the back with eye hooks and...
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