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Seems appropriate in this context. Interesting.

he did?! and i thought breaking his vows and disobeying his superiors with his impatience was bad enough! oh how i wonder if he made St. Augustine turn over in his grave..

It appears that some of the pics I posted yesterday didn't get through. Here they are again. SORRY!!




Cistercian Investiiture

Cistercian Investiture

Investiture at Ciscertian Abbey in Germany



BEFORE

AFTER

Interesting Veils

Does anyone recognise these Nursing Sisters.?

I like their habits

Blessing of the animals in San Diego.


Sisters with their dogs

Sister with her Gerbal

Finnish Lutheran Sisters



I hope thet nobody objects.........I thought their habits were interesting.

Well the sisters with the red cross might be Hospitalier sisters of the Sacred heart of jesus,a spanish community,but i am not sure. Where was the photo of the sisters with the interesting veils taken?
On ebay they have a book about the Daughters of the Cross in louisiana ,and their old head dress was kind of similar to these nuns,except the top wasn't square.Go to ebay and click on books and then type in nuns to see what i mean.
yes there are Lutheran nuns,only I believe they call them deaconesses.They are mainly found in Europe.
There are Anglican Nuns in the US and have been some for a very long time.

Thank you HD for this information..........I'm glad that my pics arrived safely this time. The "interesting veils" pic was in one of my files but I'm sorry I can't remember where it is from.

I was aware that the Anglicans are represented in the US... Their UK communities are mainly habited.

Does anyone know who these sisters are? The credit for the picture was "Convent of the Sacred Heart, Marseilles." I've never seen anything like them. (Couldn't link the actual photo and I don't have photo software)


Unknown French community

this has me puzzled . are you sure that they are sisters? they look like they have plucked eyebrows and makeup on. or maybe they are just naturally beautiful.

Maybe the picture is from a movie, or they are models wearing habits.

Some pictures from Georgetown Carmel :j









http://carmelitemonastery.com

Victimes of the Sacred Heart. They're a TLM community, in communion with Rome.

Blessings,
Gemma

yes they are Religieuses Victimes du Sacré-Coeur de
Jésus/Victim Nuns of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Rev. Mother Superior
Monastère des Religieuses Victimes du Sacré-Coeur de
Jésus
52 rue Lavat
13003 Marseille (south France)
FRANCE
Tel.: + 33 4 91 50 29 21
i understand they are served by Priests of the Fraternity of St Peter,Mass of 1962 Missal
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"Founded in 1838 by madame
Julie-Adèle of Gérin-Ricard,who become Prioress under the name of, Mother Mary -victim
of Jesus Crucified ((1793-1865), the Institute has for its particular end to unite with the Divine Saviour
in his victimhood and to imitate it in religion and charity Our Lord
incomparably immolating himself in sacrifice for the Glory of God
and the salvation of souls.
Aim of the Community
Penance,Reparation, Salvation of
Souls, Console the Heart of Jesus, Sanctification of the priesthood, that all thoughts as a virgin victim to Gods Love, the principal may be to Console,the Heart of Christ.

The Community is dedicated to
the perpetual adoration of most Holy Sacrament. « Una cum Christo hostia, Cor
Unum », it is thier moto. The Sisters make vows of Poverty, Chastity,
Obedience and enclosure

It is by love that Jesus
Sacrifices himself, it is by love that it is necessary to follow Him in His Sacrifice, and the
treasure of this love is contained in the Heart.
It is this mark of the Sisters, indicated by their title Victims of the Sacred Heart, that indicatse thier vocation is totally founded upon Love.
This is the only mOnastery of the Community and has, as of 2006, 20 Nuns and a few Novices."

Thank you both!

i know they look like they are posing. something just isn't right..

I went to a Texas Ranger game a couple weeks ago and had the coolest experience thanks to a couple of nuns who are huge Ranger fans. The two sisters were sitting behind my family and I and there was a Marine who had recently returned from Iraq in front of us. During the course of the game the soldiers found at about the nuns sitting behind us and asked them if they would say a prayer for their son and for all the soldiers that are still in harms way. The sisters asked if there was anyone else who would like to join them. It ended up being a group of over 20 (yes 20) people saying an Our Father and a prayer for our troops. It was so cool!!!!!

When The Benedictines of Mary Queen of the Apostles visitited the Sisters of St Francis of the Holy Eucharist,they engaged in a soccer match. Here are the pics. I dno't know who won.!!


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A LARGER PIC !!

A polish Franciscan Sister who is deep in thought.

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That is AWESOME! Thanks for sharing the good news.

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Now that's an Altar! Wow!

I love this thread.

I am lost... I can't figure out what strange veiled nuns you're talking about...???

As there was doubt amongst some PMers that they were not genuine sisters, I deleted the pic. Sorry about this.

ditto!

Some Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate! I love their habits!

I like their habits, too. They will be starting a new house living in the convent of St. Anthony's Church in New Bedford. My spiritual director is pastor there and the first assigment he is giving them is simply to radiate JOY!
Their second assignment is to attend the parish morning mass and pray their afternoon prayers in the Church so that it will be open and that people can come and pray and experience this part of their life! He wants them to witness to the life of prayer first of all!

Isn't that beautiful!?

I like their habits, too. They will be starting a new house living in the convent of St. Anthony's Church in New Bedford. My spiritual director is pastor there and the first assigment he is giving them is simply to radiate JOY!
Their second assignment is to attend the parish morning mass and pray their afternoon prayers in the Church so that it will be open and that people can come and pray and experience this part of their life! He wants them to witness to the life of prayer first of all!

Isn't that beautiful!?


SORRY! I clicked too quickly! Double post.

I love them too! They have the second most beautiful habit of all the nuns I met in Rome, and they are so sweet (I spent two different days with them... they abducted me from my schoolwork!)

The most beautiful, actually, I don't know the name of quite right--perhaps someone here does. At a Mass at St Peter's I noticed out of the corner of my eye some sisters in French blue habits (dark sky blue, if you deepen the Franciscans of the Immaculate many shades, it would be about that color), cream veils, rope belts, and rosaries (brown ones, I think). Afterwards I ran up to one of them and though she was in conversation with some sort of Bishop or Monsignor she turned aside for a moment and I said something like "Siete bellissime! Come si chiama l'ordine?" or something (You are all soooo pretty! What Order?) and she took my hand and stroked my cheek and said... something! I think it was "Serve dell'Immacolata" Servants of the Immaculate (or Slaves). For some reason I think she could have been Polish but I'm not sure. Anyone have any idea, or pictures? I'd love to know.

Rope belt = Franciscan.


That's all I can help you with

Regular Canonesses of the Mother of God.


I like the design of the postulants outfits.
More infomation on this French Order
http://chanoines-lagrasse.com

Wow. Now that's getting down to the essential basics!

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Nice!

Do they have TWO scapulars?

Thats what it looks like. Fot a second I thought it was just the cappa, but hmm...

It does look like they two scapulars...............Quite unusual ?

The navy blue "habits" worn by the postulants certainly stand out against the white habits of the professed sisters.

To me it actually looks like a second, shorter tunic. It REALLY looks like a surplice, but that would be weird...

Maybe its sort of like the Cistercian robe? But that wouldn't make any sense- a robe with a cape or cloak?

It's a surplice because they are canonesses and canons wore the surplice instead of the scapular. That is what the Dominicans originally wore until Our Lady gave us the scapular.
But I've never heard of the women wearing a surplice.

Hmm...thats very interesting, never seen anything like it. Thanks Hermana Mary Catharine.

Thank you Sister for this information. You are very knowledgable.

Here is a slideshow with some pictures of the Franciscan Sisters Handmaids of the Lord (sorelle francescane Ancelle del Signore) a new franciscan-inspired community recognized by the bishop of Como (Italy) in 1988:

http://www.chiesadimilano.it/or/ADMI/pagin...oad/1_lenno.swf

They live in the ancient abbey of Acquafredda in the town of Lenno, just on the borders of the Lake of Como.
In the abbey also lives an old capuchine friar, padre Odorico, wich is 80 years old and quite famous for his sanctity of life.

These are the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, an american community (of pontifical right) of sisters founded in 1973.









look what kind of veil they wear! Very strange!

Do they have a website?

http://nuke.fratipoveri.net/

on the top there's a link to the site in English

It says it's not actually the community's site, but about them made by people from their prayer groups. :j