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[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1345580191' post='2471386']
Thank you Sister! I thought exclaustrated was the right word whenever a nun is 'let out' of the enclosure. :hehe: I am glad I did not go into the cloister thinking that! Would've gotten some weird looks from the nuns when they went to the dentist and I called THAT being 'exclaustrated'!!
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You should read [url="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccscrlife/documents/rc_con_ccscrlife_doc_13051999_verbi-sponsa_en.html"]Verbi Sponsa[/url] - [i]Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns[/i]. I had the chance to read it at St. Cecilia's and it's very interesting as well as very beautiful.

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[quote name='EmilyAnn' timestamp='1345682439' post='2472244']
You should read [url="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccscrlife/documents/rc_con_ccscrlife_doc_13051999_verbi-sponsa_en.html"]Verbi Sponsa[/url] - [i]Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns[/i]. I had the chance to read it at St. Cecilia's and it's very interesting as well as very beautiful.
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Thank you EmilyAnn! I have heard of that document a lot on VS, but always thought it was kind of off-limits to lay people and more just a set of regulations for Superior Generals or Canon Lawyers to read. I read a little bit and it is very substantive and surprisingly easy to read. Thanks for the suggestion!

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[quote name='Studiumecclesiae' timestamp='1345471618' post='2470575']
Here some cistercian nuns with a traditional habit! They kept all the divine office in Latin, their mass in in French though.

[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/images/abbaye-de-boulaur/abbaye-de-boulaur/prof_907.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/982438chapitre.jpg[/img]

Magnificent altar:
[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/335797autel1.jpg[/img]

In their working habit:
[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/803433IMG_1296.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/122716R__p__tition_bis_CD_029.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/46164020100717_01.jpg[/img]

An old picture showing you their religious habit is still the same:
[img]http://www.boulaur.org/abbaye-cistercienne-sainte-marie-de-boulaur/components/com_gk3_photoslide/thumbs_big/887232mere_pia3.jpg[/img]

They pray the 11th century divine liturgy of the Cistercians.
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Beautiful photos!
I wonder if they actually use that magnificent altar (with all that decoration in front of it)?!

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[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1345686554' post='2472308']
Thank you EmilyAnn! I have heard of that document a lot on VS, but always thought it was kind of off-limits to lay people and more just a set of regulations for Superior Generals or Canon Lawyers to read. I read a little bit and it is very substantive and surprisingly easy to read. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Mother Mistress left it in my cell for me to read. I agree it is surprisingly easy to read, I enjoyed reading it a lot. It really helped me understand more the beauty of the enclosure!

Back to pictures of nuns:

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/mercececile2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/cellule1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/profession2.jpg[/img]

Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes

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Studiumecclesiae

[quote name='miles Christi' timestamp='1345719489' post='2472524']
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Beautiful photos!
I wonder if they actually use that magnificent altar (with all that decoration in front of it)?!
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I actually can't recall. All I remember is that the priest is facing the congregation. So they might add an extra altar. I also remember that the responsory psalm is sung in latin by a nun who goes by after having read the first reading. They're jolly good nuns!

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[quote name='EmilyAnn' timestamp='1345720735' post='2472525']
Mother Mistress left it in my cell for me to read. I agree it is surprisingly easy to read, I enjoyed reading it a lot. It really helped me understand more the beauty of the enclosure!

Back to pictures of nuns:

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/mercececile2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/cellule1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.saintececiledesolesmes.org/images/stories/profession2.jpg[/img]

Abbaye Sainte-Cécile de Solesmes
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Beautiful!

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I love this picture from the Poor Sisters of Saint Clare enclosure:
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-EC-SL0d_mgw/UCvZH4Cn02I/AAAAAAAARHA/jJky89_2oYI/s860/IMG_3913.JPG[/img]

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[img]http://www.urszulanki.pl/images/stories/Aktualnosci/2006/26.jpg[/img]

[url="http://poczekaj.pl/sluby_2012/images/IMG_4185.jpg"][img]http://poczekaj.pl/sluby_2012/images/IMG_4185.jpg[/img][/url]

Ursuline Gray Sisters of Poland, only in Poland they use his fundational habit.

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More of the Sisters of the Cross in Sevilla(Spain)

[img]http://www.elrinconcitocofrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/hermanas-de-la-cruz.jpg[/img]

[img]http://andaluciacarlista.com/wp-content/uploads/hermanasdelacruz.jpg[/img]

Novices, they always have many vocations

[img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LnXb-oy25mQ/TJTOKca8GtI/AAAAAAAAEeA/26d1q0xpfSc/s1600/semana%2Bsanta.jpg[/img]

Postulants, hard to find, the postulants did not leave during this stage of formation, and by their habit, are often confused with novices.

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Strictlyinkblot

[quote name='maximillion' timestamp='1346847081' post='2478690']
Gosh, amazing pics, thanks! The Polish Sisters are quite Amish looking...............plain dress and the caps.
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Quite a practical habit and yes, very Amish! I wonder if they cut their hair or just tie it up (obv they must cut it some time, I mean at the clothing ceremony)

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1932, same habit

[img]http://www.urszulanki.pl/images/stories/Zgromadzenie/historia/_przel.jpg[/img]

As the Sisters of the Cross, 1930

[img]http://www.hermandades-de-sevilla.org/sorangela/imagenes/hermanascruz.jpg[/img]

Few apostolics congregations, founded before the Vatican II Council, use the same habit since being founded, in Spain only two, Sisters of the Cross and the Little Sisters of Elderly :

[img]http://www.archivalencia.org/documentos/ficheros_noticias/votos-int1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YuKo_B_D1Ow/TDhbSXHX8nI/AAAAAAAAAvU/iyBzXJaeis0/s1600/DSC00770.JPG[/img]

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