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TeresaBenedicta

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Mercedarian sisters in Cleveland

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From [url="http://redemptores.blogspot.com/"]Mater de Merced[/url]
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You know, come to think of it... I've never seen men's habits made shorter (like we do with women's). Looking at the picture, you see the sisters' habits are a few inches shorter. I wonder if practicality really has much to do with it at all... in fact, I imagine men doing more crazy things that might be obstructed by a longer habit. Granted, I also can't imagine men wearing a modified habit.

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You know, come to think of it... I've never seen men's habits made shorter (like we do with women's). Looking at the picture, you see the sisters' habits are a few inches shorter. I wonder if practicality really has much to do with it at all... in fact, I imagine men doing more crazy things that might be obstructed by a longer habit. Granted, I also can't imagine men wearing a modified habit.
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So true!!

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faithcecelia

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1311523896' post='2274943']
You know, come to think of it... I've never seen men's habits made shorter (like we do with women's). Looking at the picture, you see the sisters' habits are a few inches shorter. I wonder if practicality really has much to do with it at all... in fact, I imagine men doing more crazy things that might be obstructed by a longer habit. Granted, I also can't imagine men wearing a modified habit.
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I wonder if, in part, its that a good number of men do not wear the habit all the time, so take it off for occasions when it could get in the way?


At Q the habit tended to get shorter as the sister got older. My first NM, a few months after I entered, reluctantly decided to shorten hers. She was sacristan and so up and down the stairs all the time withthings in her hands and was worried about tripping (she came close a number of times).

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[quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1311538078' post='2275056']
I wonder if, in part, its that a good number of men do not wear the habit all the time, so take it off for occasions when it could get in the way?

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That's my guess.

For reasons I do not understand at all, men's communities seem to vary quite a bit in how often they wear their habits/clerical garb. Women's communities tend to be more all-or-nothing. But given that all-or-nothing that seems to be common for women, it makes sense to me that more women's communities have modified theirs more, or a "this pin is our habit" sort of thing, whereas you almost never see that for men's communities -- even those that would be considered roughly equivalently "progressive."

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Maximilianus

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1311523896' post='2274943']
You know, come to think of it... I've never seen men's habits made shorter (like we do with women's). Looking at the picture, you see the sisters' habits are a few inches shorter. I wonder if practicality really has much to do with it at all... in fact, I imagine men doing more crazy things that might be obstructed by a longer habit. Granted, I also can't imagine men wearing a modified habit.
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They would probably look like the Heralds of the Gospel or the Knights of the Holy Eucharist.

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Is that an IVE priest walking with the SSVM Sister? :)

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TeresaBenedicta

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Is that an IVE priest walking with the SSVM Sister? :)
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Well, it's an IVE seminarian walking with an SSVM sister ;) They're going on house visits during a parish mission.

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TeresaBenedicta

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The SSVMs in Santiago as they continue their pilgrimage leading up to WYD!!!

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Maximilianus

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[img]http://gallery.iveamerica.org/d/10461-2/2Santiago+Group+shot+_3_.jpg[/img]

The SSVMs in Santiago as they continue their pilgrimage leading up to WYD!!!
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wow, that blue just pops out.

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[b]Congratulations to Our New Novices![/b]
On August 1, 2011, our postulants received the holy habit of Saint Dominic and their new religious names. Our new novices are: Sr. Maria Canisius, Sr. Mary Thomas, Sr. Maria Veritas, Sr. Mary Martha, Sr. Peter Joseph, Sr. Josephine, Sr. Mary Isaiah, Sr. Peter Thomas, Sr. Marie Laboure, Sr. Mary Sophia, Sr. Consolata, Sr. Rose, Sr. Teresita, Sr. Maria Karol, Sr. Marie Bernadette, Sr. Evangeline, Sr. Maria Caritas, and Sr. Rene Noel.
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okay, the names appear to be in no particular order. Nice picture, though. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the name Sr. Evangeline.

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maximillion

I am rooting for Sr Rene Noel......can't imagine why. :saint2:
But :winner: to all of them. They look so beautiful. A blessing to us all..........

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