What's Your Favourite Color Habit?

[Stacey]

[quote name='In His Light' post='1112442' date='Nov 5 2006, 11:30 PM']Other....

Black and White.......Tyburn wears two different habits, one black, one white :

JMMB,
Belinda

Edited December 11, 2007 by Stacey

[Stacey]

[quote name='In His Light' post='1112442' date='Nov 5 2006, 11:30 PM']Other....

Black and White.......Tyburn wears two different habits, one black, one white :

JMMB,
Belinda Tyburn only have two habits to adapt to climate otherwise they wouldn't have. They wear the traditional Benedictine black in most places ( and don't change it) but the white is worn in Peru, Columbia, Equador and in real heat in Rome. They do wear a white cloak/cowl though as a remnant of their first habit before they were Benedictines - this habit was blue with a red cord and white cloak/cowl.[/quote]

[Mari Therese]

I like blue, very Marian. However, the Daughters of St. Paul wear a blue habit and they aren't...

[Benedicite07]

[quote name='Matty_boy' post='1113605' date='Nov 7 2006, 07:37 AM']I am partial to the Benedictines in black, but color really doesn't matter to me as long as they're wearing one![/quote]

AMEN to THAT!

[Deo Iuvente]

Black.But the order that I want to join wears white.

[Thomist-in-Training]

I chose blue because the prettiest habits I ever saw were dark sky-blue with cream veils (and a rosary and Franciscan rope, called something like Slaves or Servants of the Immaculate but I'm not sure exactly what :'( ) and the next prettiest color-wise are probably the FSI (Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate). But Dominicans are also hard to beat. Sr. Mary Angelica OP from Nashville explained to me that she used to paint and wear all kinds of bright colors and people asked her how she'd cope with a white and black habit and she explained that white light is the presence of all color, and the same for black pigment!

[st-annes]

I saw a nun at the bank the other day. She was wearing a nice grey habit. I don't think I've seen grey that often before, but I liked it.

[kafka]

I like the orange ones the buddhist monks wear

[Veritas]

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Little Sisters (of the Poor) are so cute!

[sr_betsy]

[quote name='Mari Therese' post='1432993' date='Dec 11 2007, 07:22 PM']I like blue, very Marian. However, the Daughters of St. Paul wear a blue habit and they aren't...[/quote]

aren't what?

[the lords sheep]

[quote name='Mari Therese' post='1432993' date='Dec 11 2007, 07:22 PM']I like blue, very Marian. However, the Daughters of St. Paul wear a blue habit and they aren't...[/quote]

I don't know that I would agree that the Daughters of St. Paul aren't Marian (if I am reading this correctly...)
They are a very beautiful order of Sisters that are very devoted to the Church and all her teachings. They are very Eucharistic (I believe many of the bookstores have exposition) and the Sisters are faithful to the Magisterium. The Sisters that I know are very beautiful.
Is there any particular reason you say that? or did I misunderstand??

[Saint Therese]

I think I would have to say every color is awesome,but Dominican white rules!!!

[Mari Therese]

[quote name='the lords sheep' post='1444272' date='Jan 10 2008, 08:37 PM']I don't know that I would agree that the Daughters of St. Paul aren't Marian (if I am reading this correctly...)
They are a very beautiful order of Sisters that are very devoted to the Church and all her teachings. They are very Eucharistic (I believe many of the bookstores have exposition) and the Sisters are faithful to the Magisterium. The Sisters that I know are very beautiful.
Is there any particular reason you say that? or did I misunderstand??[/quote]



I know the Daughters in Toronto very well:) They are a truly wonderful and beautiful order of sisters. I like their charism it's very original! In my experience, they have more subtle Marian aspects (they are placed under the protection of Mary, Queen of Apostles...I think). Their founder was very devoted to Mary. I meant that they are not as Marian, for example, as another order that I know that says the complete rosary or that makes a consecration the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Sorry for any confusion.

PAX

[esmith818]

I dig the black for all who take religious vows. I dunno, it's just old school and hard core Catholic to me.

However, I'll take a habit of any color over street clothes any day! Most sisters I see around my diocese go with the modern, worldly outfits nowadays. While I can appreciate that it might be more functional to wear street clothes in certain situations, I like seeing someone "stand out" for their faith. Habits rock!

[RosaMystica]

I love white habits. Not only because it's the color that Dominicans wear but white represents purity. White is also what a bride wears on her wedding day

[jkaands]

[quote name='MandyKhatoon' post='1578629' date='Jun 21 2008, 11:06 AM']I love white habits. Not only because it's the color that Dominicans wear but white represents purity. White is also what a bride wears on her wedding day [/quote]

the meaning of white is a cultural thing.

I, too, like a white habit. The Navy has dress whites, very becoming ("An Officer and A Gentleman").

...but among hindus, white is the color of mourning (rent "Monsoon Wedding"--a very entertaining film).

[puellapaschalis]

Not to mention the fact that wearing white on one's wedding day was something that began as a fashion fad around the Victorian ear in Great Britain - so less than 200 years ago. Waaaaaay back when people were getting married in any kind of fancy get-up (when they could afford it) and the best they had at home (when they couldn't afford the fancy stuff).

I'm all for getting married in blue.

Back on topic......

[Maria Faustina]

White and Black= Dominicans, which= AWESOMENESS!!!! I am pretty sure the Lord wants me to be a Dominican, so maybe that is why I have an obsession with black and white.... which is probably why my favorite store is White House Black Market.........................

[Caramelonion]

As a future Poor Clare, I had to pick brown.

[Maria Faustina]

[quote name='Thomist-in-Training' post='1433787' date='Dec 13 2007, 12:57 PM']I chose blue because the prettiest habits I ever saw were dark sky-blue with cream veils (and a rosary and Franciscan rope, called something like Slaves or Servants of the Immaculate but I'm not sure exactly what :'( ) and the next prettiest color-wise are probably the FSI (Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate). But Dominicans are also hard to beat. Sr. Mary Angelica OP from Nashville explained to me that she used to paint and wear all kinds of bright colors and people asked her how she'd cope with a white and black habit and she explained that white light is the presence of all color, and the same for black pigment! [/quote]

Sister Mary Angelica?? I think she is my principal's sister! Oh her name is Sister Anna Grace Neenan OP. Yay Dominicans!!!!