FutureSister2009 Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 This may have been in here before and I dont feel like going through 13 pages to find it. Do the Franciscans of the Immaculate wear them?
maximillion Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 In short, yes! Click on the fourth fuzzy image under the main image and you will see them. http://www.franciscansoftheimmaculate.com/#
dymphnamaria Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 This may have been in here before and I dont feel like going through 13 pages to find it. Do the Franciscans of the Immaculate wear them? Yes, they do wear simple gowns.
OnlySunshine Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 I'm so excited for my friend entering the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate later this month (May 31st, God-willing)! I totally forgot that the FSIs wear wedding gowns to their investiture. So beautiful and so much like St. Clare! :)
Sr Mary Catharine OP Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Did the sisters also wear this gowns when they were invested as novices? No, they don't. The wedding gown goes back to the days when they didn't get the habit until profession. They wore a white veil with their postulant dress. Now they do get the habit at novitiate but they continue the wedding dress since it is the day of one's espousals to Christ. I was privileged to make the crowns for a few. I couldn't wait until I would be doing the same thing...and then I became a Dominican!
Chiquitunga Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 (edited) double post :proud: Edited May 3, 2013 by Chiquitunga
Chiquitunga Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 have to link Sr. Mary Agnes' thread here :nun1: http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/123822-little-birthday-gift-to-our-blessed-mother-sr-mary/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/42600580@N02/sets/72157631878051501/show/with/8134119225/
OnlySunshine Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 I love the tradition of the Poor Clares to keep using the wedding dress. If I could choose any cloister to enter (IF I entered religious life), it would be the Poor Clare Colettines. ;)
Sr Mary Catharine OP Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Well, if you are a Dominican you wear your baptismal gown/wedding dress everyday! :-)
Lumiere Posted May 3, 2013 Posted May 3, 2013 Did the sisters also wear this gowns when they were invested as novices? Investiture of novices, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Lumiere Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 Missionary Congregation of the Daughters of St. Thomas
Guest Allie Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 Missionary Congregation of the Daughters of St. Thomas Beautiful!!!
Little Flower Posted May 23, 2013 Posted May 23, 2013 For a long time I really wanted to have a wedding dress and everything, and was very disappointed that none of the communities I was interested in (or really many at all) still continued that tradition. But then I came to realize that well first of all, it does seem a little over the top. At least for postulants entering the novitiate. I mean, probably at least half of them leave anyway so what is the point of this whole "wedding" if its not really your wedding? I think it would be a good idea for solemn profession, but then you would get into the problem that they are already invested in the habit and would be taking it off, would have to make sure their hair was grown out and stuff, etc. And you know, this sounds terrible, but I think most of the wedding dresses that these various communites use are ugly. I would never want to wear one. I would want a beautiful one. And of course those are expensive. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that maybe most of those dresses cover a little bit too much skin? I think you can be modest and still not look like, I don't know, a Muslim or something lol. I guess its because their religious they're being extra modest or something. Anyhow I wouldn't get married in one. :haha: Sorry that was a little bit rambling :)
Chiquitunga Posted June 3, 2013 Posted June 3, 2013 ramblings are welcome here and anywhere in VS I think! :smile3: personally, I'm fine with having one or not, honestly :) most Carmels don't have them. I do really love seeing all the pictures though. It just seems like one of those really beautiful things in life, like little girls in their First Holy Communion dresses and infants in their Baptismal gowns. Love what it represents... :heart: But also for religious, I think the custom began especially to emphasis one's leaving the world by wearing one's finest, as St. Clare did. The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary actually wear them at final profession. The Wahpeton, ND Carmelites used to also (someone once mentioned that they don't anymore though) I think I like most of the dresses I've seen here, but yes, it's true that some just plain ugly, lol. linking this thread here for future reference :like: http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/129234-wedding-dresses-when-did-communities-start-using-them/
prenun Posted June 4, 2013 Posted June 4, 2013 In a 2006(?) video, the Dominican nuns of Lockport, LA showed the clothing of a novice who entered the chapel wearing a wedding dress. I've never heard of another Dominican Community where the postulant wore a wedding dress. But then, I am FAR from an expert on Dominican Communities. Also, the Lockport Dominicans seem to have fallen off the radar. Their last post in their blog was in October 2010. There was an active poster in VS, "Saint Therese" who joined the Lockport Dominicans in May(?) 2010, but it appears that none of us have kept in contact with her. I think about her sometimes and pray that all is well, and that she became a novice last spring. "The cloistered Dominicans of the Monastery of the Heart of Jesus have chosen to withdraw from social media and primarily to use "snail mail" correspondence.[18] This decision is part of the Community’s return to the traditional expression of Dominican monasticism as per Summorum Pontificum (2007) and Universæ Ecclesiæ (2011)." did some research and this is what I found :)
dymphnamaria Posted June 5, 2013 Posted June 5, 2013 http://icrsp.org/IMAGES-APOSTOLATS/IMAGES-2010/Gricigliano/Prise-Habit/Prise-Habit.htm
TheLordsSouljah Posted June 8, 2013 Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) Daughters of Mary, Mother of Our Saviour. Edited June 8, 2013 by TheLordsSouljah
TheLordsSouljah Posted June 8, 2013 Posted June 8, 2013 Wait a sec.... are these nuns with the Church? I'm not sure.... :think2:
Julie de Sales Posted June 8, 2013 Posted June 8, 2013 No, unfortunately they aren't...it's a shame, they have a wonderful spirituality! But still very nice fotos :like3:
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