Marvelous Clip Of Ocd Nun In Heels...!

[Yaatee]

...the blood sister of the one taking the video...looks as if she was allowed a home visit during the transfer, trying out her sister's shoes. Notice the beautiful wooden rosary with the plain wooden cross, a hallmark of the Carmelites.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/thewhidbeyhouse#p/u/6/ALtzd3pyN0U"]http://www.youtube.c...u/6/ALtzd3pyN0U[/url]

Edited May 19, 2011 by Yaatee

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='Yaatee' timestamp='1305848308' post='2243709']
...the blood sister of the one taking the video...looks as if she was allowed a home visit during the transfer, trying out her sister's shoes. Notice the beautiful wooden rosary with the plain wooden cross, a hallmark of the Carmelites.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/thewhidbeyhouse#p/u/6/ALtzd3pyN0U"]http://www.youtube.c...u/6/ALtzd3pyN0U[/url]
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Fantastic! At least they were brown When I entered I took with me a pair of fuschia stilettos! I was told I could wear them on Christmas day

[Yaatee]

[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1305849368' post='2243718']
Fantastic! At least they were brown When I entered I took with me a pair of fuschia stilettos! I was told I could wear them on Christmas day
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She looks like an adorable nun!

[LaPetiteSoeur]

That's great!

[HopefulBride]

[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1305849368' post='2243718']
Fantastic! At least they were brown When I entered I took with me a pair of fuschia stilettos! I was told I could wear them on Christmas day
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Oh wow. Fuschia stilettos!!!

[SoonerCatholic]

I love the video, it's so funny!

[Sister Marie]

Cute... I think all my patent leather pumps were the hardest things for me to give up when I entered the convent. We all have attachments - mine were to clothes and shoes

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='Sister Marie' timestamp='1305949103' post='2244087']
Cute... I think all my patent leather pumps were the hardest things for me to give up when I entered the convent. We all have attachments - mine were to clothes and shoes
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When I visited a Poor Clares convent some years ago I asked if I woukd have to cut my hair. They told me that they work more on a 'sacrifice' system there so it might be cutting hair or it could be something else. They said one girl had entered with absolutely beautiful clothes so as part of her Clothing ceremony she handed them in to go to charity. I thought that was a nice way to do it.

[MithLuin]

Oh, how cute! Either a home visit, or her family coming to visit her at a retreat center or something....

[Sister Marie]

[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1305950383' post='2244091']
When I visited a Poor Clares convent some years ago I asked if I woukd have to cut my hair. They told me that they work more on a 'sacrifice' system there so it might be cutting hair or it could be something else. They said one girl had entered with absolutely beautiful clothes so as part of her Clothing ceremony she handed them in to go to charity. I thought that was a nice way to do it.
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I think that is a great idea... I was thrilled to cut my hair when I entered the convent because I hated having to style it all the time, haha. It wasn't much of a sacrifice for me!

[LaPetiteSoeur]

I thought most orders had the sisters cut their hair when they recieved the habit. Do some orders let you keep your hair? I'd never heard of this before...

[Yaatee]

[quote name='MithLuin' timestamp='1305991544' post='2244189']
Oh, how cute! Either a home visit, or her family coming to visit her at a retreat center or something....
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Apparently it was a home visit on her way back to Belgium, her home (French in background), for a conference (?) or transfer. This was posted on FB by Susan DeVore, www.crazy4nuns.com, from YouTube.... I didn't get it at first, either.

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='LaPetiteSoeur' timestamp='1305997306' post='2244216']
I thought most orders had the sisters cut their hair when they recieved the habit. Do some orders let you keep your hair? I'd never heard of this before...
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I kept my hair long (almost waist length) and just plaited it - as we didn't have tocques it actually kept the veil in place better than short hair and most sisters had a little ponytail. None of the communities I visited first time round insisted on cutting hair.

[Yaatee]

[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1306000241' post='2244230']
I kept my hair long (almost waist length) and just plaited it - as we didn't have tocques it actually kept the veil in place better than short hair and most sisters had a little ponytail. None of the communities I visited first time round insisted on cutting hair.

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I like that non-insistence on cutting hair. Having longer hair does help keep it in place (Otherwise you get all those litlte frizzies!).

I personally don't like the cutting hair routine during the clothing. Many young women wear their hair short now. I suspect that in many cases the postulants are requested to [i]grow[/i] their hair so that it can be cut during their clothing!

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='Yaatee' timestamp='1306005189' post='2244251']
I like that non-insistence on cutting hair. Having longer hair does help keep it in place (Otherwise you get all those litlte frizzies!).

I personally don't like the cutting hair routine during the clothing. Many young women wear their hair short now. I suspect that in many cases the postulants are requested to [i]grow[/i] their hair so that it can be cut during their clothing!
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And keeping it long isn't actually that new either - Therese kept her hair long

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='Yaatee' timestamp='1306005189' post='2244251']
I like that non-insistence on cutting hair. Having longer hair does help keep it in place (Otherwise you get all those litlte frizzies!).

I personally don't like the cutting hair routine during the clothing. Many young women wear their hair short now. I suspect that in many cases the postulants are requested to [i]grow[/i] their hair so that it can be cut during their clothing!
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Funny, I just assumed that Orders that wear traditional habits and veils required the Sisters to at least wear their hair short, both for religious symbolism reasons, and also, because wearing your hair short and non-stylish, saves time, means no blow-dryer is required, and I'd heard was cooler and more practical under at least some veils. I've noticed that whle the Web sites of many Communities give a great deal of information, I don't think I've ever seen a mention of the Community's requirements regarding hair, except that some pictures of Clothing ceremonies either show the hair being cut, or it's clear from the pictures of the postulants that their hair was cut pretty uniformly short before the ceremony. Maybe it's too personal a subject--just like I have no idea what Sisters in most Communities wear to bed. We've never really even discussed that on VS.

However, I was under the impression that few Commmunities anymore require Sisters to actually shave their heads. I think one Paulist Community I've heard of does, but I've never heard any others.

I HAD heard of Orders that didn't necessarily cut the Sister's hair at the clothing ceremony, but at first vows or final vows. Especially since Sisters don't take vows during postulancy or the Novitiate, this means there is more of a chance the Sister might leave, and going back into secular life with unusually short hair could be difficult.

Interesting that, with all the discussions of various Orders on VS, we've never really discussed details of what different Communities require on an ongoing basis in terms of how short Sisters wear their hair.

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' timestamp='1306006651' post='2244264']
just like I have no idea what Sisters in most Communities wear to bed. [/quote]



I was told I could wear what I wanted to bed, or nothing if I so choose, but if thats the case to remember to wear my dressing gown to the bathroom as I wouldn't be the first to forget!! thankfully I neither forgot nor witnessed another sister forgetting!

[krissylou]

[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1306006980' post='2244266']
I was told I could wear what I wanted to bed, or nothing if I so choose, but if thats the case to remember to wear my dressing gown to the bathroom as I wouldn't be the first to forget!! thankfully I neither forgot nor witnessed another sister forgetting!
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I've heard of some older Sisters saying that in the old days they'd sleep with a bunch of different (devotional-size, not habit-size) scapulars and it is a mercy they did not all strangle in their sleep with all the cords!

(Presumably they also had some sort of habit-nightgown although I suppose I did not ask ...)

[Yaatee]

[quote name='krissylou' timestamp='1306010657' post='2244269']
I've heard of some older Sisters saying that in the old days they'd sleep with a bunch of different (devotional-size, not habit-size) scapulars and it is a mercy they did not all strangle in their sleep with all the cords!

(Presumably they also had some sort of habit-nightgown although I suppose I did not ask ...)
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In 'comparing' the Poor Clares with the Discalced Carmelites, the PC's--the Collettines, anyway-the most strict-- wear a 'sleep habit' or their real habit to bed as they rise at midnight. That would be a real penance for me, both the wearing and the rising...

[faithcecelia]

[quote name='Yaatee' timestamp='1306010904' post='2244271']
In 'comparing' the Poor Clares with the Discalced Carmelites, the PC's--the Collettines, anyway-the most strict-- wear a 'sleep habit' or their real habit to bed as they rise at midnight. That would be a real penance for me, both the wearing and the rising...
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Me too. I need very little sleep, thankfully, but wouldn't fancy having to get up in the night! The Poor Clares I visited last year (not Colletines) haven't got uo for some years, but are amalgamating at the moment, maybe already, and the community they are joining do rise but just a couple of nights a week.

I can't remember exactly what it was in relation to but I do remember some older sisters telling me they slept with 7 pins in *something* and had to learn to sleep without wriggling too much to avoid pricking themselves. That would have been no good for me, I am the worlds most restless sleeper!