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[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1155118' date='Jan 3 2007, 07:49 AM']
I've got very Dutch hair, that is: it like to do the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do! Fortunately, it responds very well to reverse psychology, so when I want it flat and out of the way (like when I'm going to church) I'll leave it loose until the very last minute, after which I'll tie it up. And if I want it nice and flowing, like for a concert, I'll pin it up and take the pins out ten minutes before going on-stage, and during that time my hair will sort itself out.

I shudder of the thought - but what will it do under a veil? (Hedgehog-like images come to mind!)
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There are some indispensable items for wearing long hair under a veil:

elastic headband
bobby pins
those little v-clips that clip open and closed
elastic ponytail holder
a flat barrette

What I used to do is put mine up half-way in the barrette, braid the rest and then fold it at my neck so the bottom of the braid was pointing up, and then pin it to my head with the bobby pins. The v-clips are for when you have strays, and the elastic headband is for making the veil stay on if it's not tight enough, or holding it back if it wants to go wild under your veil :)

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HeavenlyCalling

[quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1155134' date='Jan 3 2007, 10:37 AM']
There are some indispensable items for wearing long hair under a veil:

elastic headband
bobby pins
those little v-clips that clip open and closed
elastic ponytail holder
a flat barrette

What I used to do is put mine up half-way in the barrette, braid the rest and then fold it at my neck so the bottom of the braid was pointing up, and then pin it to my head with the bobby pins. The v-clips are for when you have strays, and the elastic headband is for making the veil stay on if it's not tight enough, or holding it back if it wants to go wild under your veil :)
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That's interesting, I always wondered how nuns put their hair back without making a huge lump in the veil. Would that work under the full viel though? Or was it only good for the postulents veil?

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Incarnate Word Postulant

I had to make a cap (just like a shower cap, but made of white cotton), it hides my very black hair and keeps it under the veil. Otherwise, my hair starts going every single way possible, and my veil slips off. I'm having to let my hair grow, if I keep it short it won't stay under the veil. So, with shoulder lenght I will be able to use a barrette and force it to stay under the veil.

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VeniteAdoremus

I should just enter a community with whimples :)

(Too bad that I'm quite sure I'm not called to be a PCPA! :D )

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[quote name='Incarnate Word Postulant' post='1155175' date='Jan 3 2007, 12:18 PM']
I had to make a cap (just like a shower cap, but made of white cotton), it hides my very black hair and keeps it under the veil. Otherwise, my hair starts going every single way possible, and my veil slips off. I'm having to let my hair grow, if I keep it short it won't stay under the veil. So, with shoulder lenght I will be able to use a barrette and force it to stay under the veil.
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Yes, the postulants have a brown cap the same as this that they wear under their short brown veil during postulancy.

[quote name='HeavenlyCalling' post='1155171' date='Jan 3 2007, 12:10 PM']
That's interesting, I always wondered how nuns put their hair back without making a huge lump in the veil. Would that work under the full viel though? Or was it only good for the postulents veil?
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The sisters with habits and the full headgear have short hair so there's not really a "lump" problem there :) I had really long hair when I was a postulant so it was challenging at times but sometimes I just had to live with having a lump under my veil! For instance, in this picture, the day I entered there was quite a lump because I had my hair in a bun when I received the veil :blush: [img]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/materdei/OLAM%20Entrance/IMG_2209.jpg[/img]

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more shaved heads nuns and veils!:)
"Passionist nuns live some of the most austere religious lives: They shave their heads; get up at 2 a.m. every day to pray; whip themselves with small leather lashes to share in the pain of Christ’s flogging; practice long-term fasting, give up foods such as fruit and vegetables during the summer as penance, and only speak one hour a day. Their suffering, they believe, can help save lost souls."
[img]http://www.nunsunveiled.com/03/01.jpg[/img]

"Although their faces seem pale and gaunt, their eyes tired with black circles, these women laugh and tell jokes and poke fun at slow-praying sisters or sisters who fall asleep during their vigils"

"Sister Marie Michelle is tall with sparkling blue eyes. If she had hair, it would be thick and black. Even without makeup and after years of less than five hours of sleep a night, her face beams a wide smile. But she is quite serious when she says she made the decision to become a nun at the age of four.

The story goes that little Marie stood on a kneeler while her mother prayed beside her. In front of them sat a nun. “I leaned over the pew and I grabbed the bottom of her veil and I picked it up to see what was underneath it. And my mom grabbed my hand and was mortified and she said: ‘Don’t touch the nun! She’s married to Jesus.’ That was it for me!.”

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Young postulants marching into chapel to receive habits in Alton, Illinois.
"Belongea marched up the aisle carrying a tall white candle. A wide smile spread across her soap-cleaned face as she spotted her parents seated along with her brother and five sisters, their spouses and children. She wondered what her family thought of her hair. The sisters had shorn her brown tresses the day before, leaving strands less than a finger long. But Belongea kept back a long lock for her mother, a gift she would present no-doubt with tears. Belongea wasn’t nervous really, but excited, eager to get through the event. But what if she didn’t turn the right way or bow at the right time?
[url="http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Reed/Reed03.jpg"]http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Reed/Reed03.jpg[/url] photo

When the Archbishop called her to the altar, he placed the dress and veil in her hands and said: “The religious habit is the garment of your salvation.”
[url="http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Reed/Reed04.jpg"]http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Reed/Reed04.jpg[/url] photo
The postulants clutched their veils and habits to their chests and hurried to a back room where they slipped off their black jumpers and white blouses and put on their habits: calf-length, long-sleeved black dresses with pleats in the front and secret pockets in the petticoats where the sisters carry their rosaries, pens or candy for the students. The young women stared at each other.

“You look so holy!” Belongea told one of the women, then giggled.
Their veils felt awkward at first and they reminded each other not to get “veil neck” — a condition in which a sister stiffens and won’t turn her head for fear she’ll lose her veil.

the last 2 pics and paragraphs are about this Community
[url="http://www.altonfranciscans.org/default/Formation%20Page.htm"]http://www.altonfranciscans.org/default/Formation%20Page.htm[/url]

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[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1155225' date='Jan 3 2007, 11:51 AM']
Oh, wow, these pictures are great! Thank you!
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NUns at the zoo..great pics!
[img]http://www.altonfranciscans.org/images/check%20it%20out%20images/Trip%20to%20Zoo06butterfly2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.altonfranciscans.org/images/check%20it%20out%20images/Trip%20to%20Zoo06butterfly1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.altonfranciscans.org/images/check%20it%20out%20images/Trip%20to%20Zoo06%20turtlepark2.jpg[/img]

have a Joyful day
Peace of Christ Jesus!
E-J

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HeavenlyCalling

All these young nuns, makes me want to run off to the convent right now! ( which would be painful, because 1. I live in the middle of no where 2. there are no nuns near me and 3. I cant drive, legally, anyway)

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VeniteAdoremus

[quote name='HeavenlyCalling' post='1155295' date='Jan 3 2007, 10:21 PM']
All these young nuns, makes me want to run off to the convent right now! ( which would be painful, because 1. I live in the middle of no where 2. there are no nuns near me and 3. I cant drive, legally, anyway)
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I'm looking from my study books to my rosary to my study books...
Bad VA! Baaaad! No convents before graduation for you!

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[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1155318' date='Jan 3 2007, 03:54 PM']
I'm looking from my study books to my rosary to my study books...
Bad VA! Baaaad! No convents before graduation for you!
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lol. :lol: I'm putting off my homework right now... oops!

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[quote name='HeavenlyCalling' post='1155295' date='Jan 3 2007, 01:21 PM']
All these young nuns, makes me want to run off to the convent right now! ( which would be painful, because 1. I live in the middle of no where 2. there are no nuns near me and 3. I cant drive, legally, anyway)
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Introibo ad altare Dei, Ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam.!
,what a wonderful holy desire,at your age, and in our times !!i pray that you keep that Grace, and guard your desire...just dont get into allot of debt!!!!

i am surprised that their isnt a good Community of Nuns/Sisters,close by that someone could help you make a non-vocational retreat at at LEAST yearly?.. whom am i to speak.a guy..with a licence! .living in the middle of nowhere, close to a Monastery
Peace and all goodness be in your soul, Emile-James.
[img]http://www.aciprensa.com/testigosdefe/images/staterejesus.jpg[/img]
SANTA TERESA DE JESUS De Los Andes, be your friend in intercession..

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[quote name='Emile James' post='1155038' date='Jan 2 2007, 11:58 PM']
yes they are, i had the privilege of being there at the re-beginning of the Sisters and working as an assistant to Fr Groeschel for over a year...Good is good.

..again, speaking of Franciscans Sisters and shaved heads!!:)

[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/343517844_bfa33f21f6.jpg[/img]
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franciscans are my favorite :blush:

*edit: you know... i'm always threatening to just shave all my hair right off. it might not be SO bad being bald!! ...i bet my head is shaped funny though.

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franciscanheart

[quote name='stuckinamo' post='1155377' date='Jan 3 2007, 05:29 PM']
...i bet my head is shaped funny though.
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:lol: you read my mind.. (about my own head, not yours).

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haha. :lol_roll:

i gotta figure out how to post a picture of my mane on here. i'll try that thing you posted. thanks, Laura!! :)

*edit: i tried to get the pictures on here of my hair. it didn't quite work! i'll just give the website. [url="http://new.photos.yahoo.com/stuckinamo93/#page1"]http://new.photos.yahoo.com/stuckinamo93/#page1[/url]
the graduation one was may 2003 when my brother graduated collge.
the one where i'm dressed up was last year before prom. it only took the hair dresser lady like twenty minutes to tame that thing!!!!
the one of me at the beach (we call it Martha on the rocks :)) is from last August. it is my senior pic. my hair is pretty tame there.

*edit...again...it wouldn't work, that website!! try either of these: [url="http://www.picturetrail.com/stuckinamo93"]http://www.picturetrail.com/stuckinamo93[/url]
or [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36662701@N00/"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/36662701@N00/[/url]

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