Best/worst In Convent Food

[Chiquitunga]

[quote name='DiscerningCatholic' timestamp='1349890691' post='2491994']
I want the old nun emoticons back!!!![/quote]

Discerning, those moving nuns posted in this thread by laetitia were never here. They are images from photobucket. We're really lucky (or blessed I should say!) to have five now. Here, I'm gonna quote myself ..

[quote name='Chiquitunga' timestamp='1349835686' post='2491829']Those nun emoticons posted by laetitia here aren't ones we had, but are external moving pictures (if that's the right wording) from a photobucket account. Open them individually and you'll see.

[b]For the longest time, we had no nun emoticons at all (only a strange looking monk, which is gone now, lol) Then suddenly we got 5 nuns after there was a petition thread for it if I remember correctly[/b]


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Forgive me if I'm sounding mean.. sorry [color=#282828][font=Open Sans', sans-serif] [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=Open Sans', sans-serif]I just remember when there was that petition thread and dUSt was so kind to pay attention to it and actually grant us five!!! [/font][/color]

[color=#282828]Emmmaberry, when I was searching for those moving nuns last night in this thread, I happened to have come across one of these [/color][color=#282828][img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/blush.gif[/img][/color][color=#282828] and I simply highlighted his face, copied & pasted, and it worked! Yay! [/color]

[color=#282828]edit: here's that petition thread [/color][url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/107610-we-need-a-new-nun-emoticon/"]http://www.phatmass....w-nun-emoticon/[/url]

Edited October 10, 2012 by Chiquitunga

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='Chiquitunga' timestamp='1349894987' post='2492034']
Forgive me if I'm sounding mean.. sorry [color=#282828][font=Open Sans', sans-serif] [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=Open Sans', sans-serif]I just remember when there was that petition thread and dUSt was so kind to pay attention to it and actually grant us five!!! [/font][/color]

[color=#282828]Emmmaberry, when I was searching for those moving nuns last night in this thread, I happened to have come across one of these [/color][color=#282828][img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/blush.gif[/img][/color][color=#282828] and I simply highlighted his face, copied & pasted, and it worked! Yay! [/color]

[color=#282828]edit: here's that petition thread [/color][url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/107610-we-need-a-new-nun-emoticon/"]http://www.phatmass....w-nun-emoticon/[/url]
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I forgot to check for newer posts before I posted that again... Totally missed that!

[littleflower3]

For me in the Philippines I had to get used to eating fish and rice all the time. Here in the U.S. when I eat fish I am used to all the bones being taken out. Then there was a whole fish looking back at me and the meal was in silence and I had no idea how to eat it. In France some of the foods had a really strong mustard taste. It was a spicy mustard. I cannot go near dijon mustard.

[Pax_et bonum]

[quote name='Chiquitunga' timestamp='1349894987' post='2492034']
[color=#282828]edit: here's that petition thread [/color][url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/107610-we-need-a-new-nun-emoticon/"]http://www.phatmass....w-nun-emoticon/[/url]
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I'm going to be but...
[img]http://i853.photobucket.com/albums/ab91/Hildemv/0006.gif[/img]

This one is super cute!

Edited October 11, 2012 by Pax_et bonum

[AnneLine]

Looking for the nuns?

[color=#FF0000]You can do a 'google search' for "GIF" and "NUN" and find a bunch of them [/color]

[color=#0000FF][i](just be careful... some links aren't uh... Catholic friendly)[/i][/color]

or try here:

[url="http://www.animated-gifs.eu/religion-nun/001.htm"]http://www.animated-...ion-nun/001.htm[/url] [img]http://www.animated-gifs.eu/religion-nun/0009.gif[/img]

or you can hang out her and live trap 'em:


[url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_nKa-dM7PvEo/SGvadJONd_I/AAAAAAAAB4M/OSQh1N2S8CM/s1600-h/nun+crossing+whitejpg.jpg"][img]http://bp2.blogger.com/_nKa-dM7PvEo/SGvadJONd_I/AAAAAAAAB4M/OSQh1N2S8CM/s400/nun+crossing+whitejpg.jpg[/img][/url]

Edited October 11, 2012 by AnneLine

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='AnneLine' timestamp='1349992840' post='2492467']

[url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_nKa-dM7PvEo/SGvadJONd_I/AAAAAAAAB4M/OSQh1N2S8CM/s1600-h/nun+crossing+whitejpg.jpg"][img]http://bp2.blogger.com/_nKa-dM7PvEo/SGvadJONd_I/AAAAAAAAB4M/OSQh1N2S8CM/s400/nun+crossing+whitejpg.jpg[/img][/url]

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People would worry that the nuns would bash their cars with rulers.

[AnneLine]

Actually... that one was for real!

It is at the Georgetown (D.C.) Visitation academy.... the nuns literally were being run into by students when they didn't expect the sisters to be there...

(the Nuns main building renovated, so the Nuns were using a different walkway from what the students expected....).... hence the NUN CROSSING sign. True story!!!!

[Pax_et bonum]

My friend took this picture:

[img]http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/603407_505035176178839_1851217238_n.jpg[/img]

[LaPetiteSoeur]

I just had dinner with some sisters on Friday and it was so delicious! We had beef and vegetable soup, salad, and some delicious rolls. We ended up getting frozen yogurt for dessert because one of the sisters loves frozen yogurt.

When I've eaten with them before, we've had a ton of fish cooked in garlic. We live near a huge fishing community, so the fish is super fresh. Sr I smothers shrimp in garlic and butter and Sr P will buy special rolls from this 100 year old bakery. It's so good.

That said, I've never had bad food in any of the convents I've visited. The Felicians have the most amazing soup and the LSIC make homemade pirogues and potato pancakes.

[maximillion]

Yup, know that whole-fish-on-a-plate thing from my French convent, the Sisters were all SO adept at eating it and leaving the pointy, bony, yukky bits to one side on the platter.
What took more getting used to were Feast Days (we only had fish on Feasts) when this was followed by a treat.
Dessert.



Served onto the same platter.

What was that line about the Observance providing us with ample opportunity for penance?

However, the convent food, (mainly Veggie except on those Feast Days), was generally of the standard of a GOOD French Restaurant.

[DiscerningCatholic]

Awkward bump, but I read through this and found it hilarious, because here Lil's worried about the retreat food and I barely ate a thing at my retreat. (I think Lil can actually back this up.) :hehe:

 

I hope they have chocolate at the retreat :|

 

They did at this just past one. :|

[Anselm]

The first time I visited a monastery it was in northern Scotland and I arrived during Vespers, in the snow and the dark in December to hear gregorian chant echoing from the church. All very idyllic until I realised that supper (as it was Advent) comprised boiled carrots and camomile tea.

[Byzantine]

The first time I visited a monastery it was in northern Scotland and I arrived during Vespers, in the snow and the dark in December to hear gregorian chant echoing from the church. All very idyllic until I realised that supper (as it was Advent) comprised boiled carrots and camomile tea.

 

This sounds like the intro to a very good book. Just saying.

[Anselm]

The monastery I'm now discerning with usually have very nice food (their French heritage, I'm sure ;) ), but the combination of scrambled eggs on toast with stewed apples was something of a shock.

[ToJesusMyHeart]

SOL and NDs have super delicious foods always.

[DiscerningCatholic]

The first day I was there, the sisters brought bag lunches for all of the girls getting there early for us to eat on the way back from the airport. I didn't eat mine; I felt bad, but I didn't feel like eating. For dinner, we had some dish with potatoes and tomatoes and stuff. It was good, but I only ate the tiniest bit because I was so excited; I didn't eat breakfast or lunch that day and I didn't really eat for the whole weekend.

 

And then we went to this little tiny diner about 10 minutes away from the academy for breakfast the next morning. We pull up in two 15-passenger vans and then two sisters get out of each one... and then two retreatants...and then six...and then ten...and then 12... :lol: So we stroll into the diner and proceed to basically take it over and everyone's staring like :blink: :twitch: :o "A nun! No...two! No...FOUR!" That was rather amusing. I ate two bites of a cinnamon roll and one sausage. :|  The poor sisters probably thought I was starving myself.

 

I really don't remember what else we ate, because, like I said, I basically didn't eat the first day we got there. I do know that for breakfast on Sunday, we had some bizarre concoction that I believe the sisters called "egg strata" or something. It wasn't too bad. I didn't know what exactly I was eating, but whatever. I'm not really picky about food unless it has a weird texture, like bananas or canned green beans. I even have trouble with jello. It's gotten better as I've gotten older, but I still struggle with some foods. :hmmm:

 

Apparently, Sr. Mary Joseph (it could have been another sister; I'm not the best at names) was in charge of the kitchen for the weekend. One of the sisters called her up to thank her and Sr. MJ says, "It's okay, guys...I just planned the meals and then bossed everyone else around for the rest of the weekend." :lol:

[mysisterisalittlesister]

I think the majority of the meals I just ate at the LSP home in Queens was stale raisin bran :|

 

It seems like every time I have lunch at the novitiate, they have chicken cordon bleu. Every. Stinkin. Time. Must have had a huge donation :)

[DiscerningCatholic]

EW. I hate raisin bran. :x  Chicken cordon bleu is okay...but all things in moderation... :|

[Little Flower]

Peach pie made from fresh peaches just donated. YUM!

[OnlySunshine]

I still miss the vegetable soup made by the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus.  That was really good and definitely NOT from a can!  I had it almost 5 years ago and I still think about it from time to time.  :)