I like their habit too, it's very poor, but at the same time, it's just what a habit should be. But I still like to know what order it is from a glance.

Denise- your question answers why they modified their headpiece from the coronet to a veil.

My question? you mean, driving in that monstrosity? LOL I know that it's difficult driving in the PCPA veil. I can't fathom that thing. . .it's an accident waiting to happen.

This last one Baghdad, Iraq Missions 1932
E-J

sorry
E-J

My hair is long and thick. I wore it all week in a French Braid. That worked pretty well. Don't know about the Postulant's veil. I guess they'll show me how to wear it.

That's a good point, I never thought that they might show you there

When I was in Ann Arbor, Sister Thomas Aquinas was our driver in one of the fifteen passanger vans to take us to the school Friday night to set up the retreat [literally] the first thing she did after she buckled up was put her veil over her shoulder.

i looooove it. it's so beautiful because it's so simple and gray.

i could totally tell the CFR's in one glance!

ditto. and me too.

Tomorrow at 3:45pm I am cutting my hair...yup I have decided to go shorter..and I am absolutely scared but very much excited...I will let you all know how it goes!!


~Lee

With all this talk of hair length, I went and had my hair cut short, real short! It was only down a little below my ears, but now it is much nicer, much easier to handle. Feels real good! See what you all started.
Alice M

Hey Alice,


Thats great, I am all about short hair, it is definately easier to manage. I am not sure of how short i am going to go but we will see...


God Bless

I am growing mine out and growing the highlights out, and my mom isn't very happy, but it will make it easier to do again.

Yay my hairdresser did an AWESOME job...I am soo going to her from now on...she was wonderful...

Yay.

That's good, I am glad it came out they way you wanted it too. I like my hairdresser a lot too, but then again she is my cousin

Hughey,

Just thumb through some really old pictures of the 70's and 80's Think dippity-do and enough hairspray to suck the air out of a large room. Now picture me in those hideous hair-dos.

Now feel really really better

Oh I did things to my hair that I will take to my grave....

When I was on the syhronized swimming team, we dippy do'ed and put gelitin in our hair to keep the hair in place and all the bobby pins!!! Once my mom wasn't at a meet and Mrs. V did my hair-she used a whole case of bobby pins and by the time I swam my solo my head throbbed and I got a bad headahc.
Then I get the news that they want me to swim my solo over? Nope.

Anyway.


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Dippity do...oh no! I remember that nasty stuff. yucko. I go back to the 60's, though never was a hippie! I was a page boy gal myself. I think we lost our audience with these comments from the past! Sure brought back the memories, and the smiles
AliceM

I love short hair. It is so much easier and more peaceful in the mornings.

My mum loves me with short hair... but it makes me look like a fourteen-year-old boy. Which for a tall girl isn't an ideal situation.

uh, on which planet? LOL

I had a foot cut off my hair about 5 weeks ago. . .and now, EVERY morning I have bed head. It comes with the territory when I have curly crazy hair that won't do anything. So now, every morning I actually have to do my hair. When it was long I could at least toss it in a pony tail if I was running late!

Seriously.

one hair cut I had made me look like Roy Orbison, which isn't a good look unless your a 110 year old singer.

Not what you want to go to school looking like.

I cut my hair at Thanksgiving because I hated the rats nest growing at the nape of my neck, it was like I couldn't do anything with it, sooo off it came one night.




Jessica
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hair.......................today, gone tamorrow

Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus-Benedictine Nuns of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Kansas City, Missouri


Kaylynn Dunne of Kansas / Bishop Finn


Abbot of Fontgombault, France, cuts the hair of a new novice at her Benedictine Clothing Ceremony, using then the cathedral in Scranton.

Hi there. Here's a little more of my "hair experience" at the convent last week.

1. A braid works well.

2. A wet braid is not acceptable because the sisters think you'll get a cold.

3. Since a wet head isn't allowed it's best to plan hair washing at a time when the blow dryer won't sound like an alarm all over the convent.

4. And it is possible to get it done in three minutes without a mirror.

Think how much easier under a veil.

How come you can't have wet hair? I come to work every day with wet hair b/c I don't own a blow dryer.

Because the sisters will think you will die of pneumonia within ten minutes.

The sisters I visited were quite keen on that, too, bless them

There were no rules against wet hair under the veil at OLAM... I always had a wet braid because I would braid it after I showered and it simply didn't dry. It would still be damp by the next time I took it down to wash it

At Lockport we took our shower at night and they wear a night cap.
Of course with long hair it takes forever to dry without a hairdyer but It didn't look to bad in the morning but my night cap kept falling off.

Now that my hair is short it does dry faster even without help of a hair dryer.

Jessica
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I used to wear my hair in a bun all of the time and that would always happen... I wondered if it could start to mold all wraped up like that

Yeah, I am aware that Lockport has a really good system for all of that... the postulants have special nightcaps which allow their hair to dry at night

just to add to all this convent hair talk.....when I was at the Apostles of the Sacred Heart, I showered at night because I didn't want to wake up earlier. I borrowed a hairdryer from on the of the novices and I dryed my hair in the basement so no one would hear me!

on an unrelated note, my mom recently said that she wants a lock of my hair before I enter. I just thought that was really sweet of her to ask.

That is a sweet thing to do. I would give my mom one when I enter, but she already has like 10 from my 1-110th haircuts, can you tell I am a first born?

The warm weather down there helps too!

Jessica
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Oh, no, no, no!

While I do not like a lot of "modern times"... "normal" veils are certainly a plus.

How do you get through a door with that thing on your head?! Those are the Hawthorne Dominicans right?

Kinda reminds me of the 'e' collars(those cones) we use on the animals to keep them from opening thier wounds.

I am sure it saved many souls having to wear that outfit and I would be the 1st in line also.


Jessica
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Oh my! what if the wind got caught under that?!?!

Flying Nun???

All these goofy habits/veils reminds me of a lot of sacrifice and humility!

Yeah but can you imagine how many souls were saved????

Jessica
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Oh absolutely, especially if they were offered up in sacrifice for souls!

I am sure they were! And if they dont save souls nothing will

Yes, Hawthorne. They have a fairly new website as well... in case anyone wants a look around.