Mysterious And Strange Looking Woman At A Day With Mary

[CatherineM]

[quote name='ariaane' post='1866334' date='May 13 2009, 03:11 PM']So you sound kinda like George Dubya? [/quote]

He's a Texan. I'm an Okie, but I lived in Florida long enough to have soaked some real Dixie twang. Get me mad and I sound like Scarlet O'Hara.

[Hilde]

I seriously thought you would talk about an apparition you thought you had or something.

Maybe a lay person in an order?

Eastern European?

Muslim woman sniffing around?

[misereremi]

[quote name='ariaane' post='1865874' date='May 13 2009, 11:00 AM']Talk about 6 degrees of separation! You know who I’m talking about!

So, is she a Latin Rite Catholic, or does she belong to the Eastern Church? Is she [b]Coptic Catholic[/b] by any chance?

Are the clothes some type of cultural garb?

Salutes to a fellow Brit![/quote]
I just realised that there are two people who fit your description. However one of them tends to wear brighter jilbab-she's a lovely Eritrean lady, and I know that she attends a Day with Mary. I think she is Gheez rite but usually attends Tridentine mass. And yes those are her cultural garms- and aren't they gorgeous. I have a few Gheez rite friends but they've adopted the Western dress.

There's another lady I know who wears darker jilbab, usually black..with a large crucifix. People always ask her if she's Muslim. That is literally just what she chooses to wear, she's a Latin Rite Catholic Londoner.

[ariaane]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1866348' date='May 13 2009, 10:25 PM']He's a Texan. I'm an Okie, but I lived in Florida long enough to have soaked some real Dixie twang. Get me mad and I sound like Scarlet O'Hara.[/quote]

To be honest, southerners all sound very similar to me. All northerners" sound almost identical to me also. (Is Oklahoma classed as midwest or the south? Sorry if that's a silly question)

Now, I can distinguish between a resident of OC and residents of all of the forsesaid.

Edited May 13, 2009 by ariaane

[misereremi]

[quote name='ariaane' post='1865873' date='May 13 2009, 10:55 AM']It’s just that I’ve never come across a Muslim at a Church service- ever.[/quote]
A Muslim comes to Mass with me almost every Sunday and Holy day of obligation. Please pray for my hubby's conversion- or rather return to Christianity. Thanks.

[StColette]

[quote name='ariaane' post='1866379' date='May 13 2009, 04:42 PM']To be honest, southerners all sound very similar to me. All northerners" sound almost identical to me also.[/quote]

I can pick out the distinction among southerners. Northern Louisiana vs. Southern Louisiana is quite easy to detect. Georgia, as well as South & North Carolina, has a very specific sound to their dialect.

[the lords sheep]

[quote name='ariaane' post='1865888' date='May 13 2009, 12:55 PM']Just out of curiosity, I’ve often heard that Yankies are not popular in foreign countries due to US foreign policy, and this shows in how they're treated abroad. Can you relate to this? (I apologise in advance on behalf of the Brits if this is your experience)[/quote]

As another ex-pat sticking her nose in, I've frequently had "issues" (nothing too bad) being an American in Italy. For the most part, I don't have too many difficulties- but that's because I speak the language.... I've been cursed at on the street (actually, more than once) by someone who heard me speaking English that it was US's (aka Bush's) fault that Italy is having such a bad economy.

I've also been the object of many MANY stares and even some comments (Italians naturally stare- they're very curious- but I can also understand what they're saying, and anytime it's anti-American, I step in and explain to them that I understand what they are saying and it's rude to stare and speak about someone in that way).

In other regards, though, I can see where and why Americans get a bad stereotype here...I live with American college students who are here to [s]party[/s] study abroad and frequently see/hear other"obnoxious Americans" here in restaurants and other public venues.

Glad to hear it's not such a problem elsewhere, though!

[ariaane]

[quote name='misereremi' post='1866369' date='May 13 2009, 10:37 PM']I just realised that there are two people who fit your description. However one of them tends to wear brighter jilbab-she's a lovely Eritrean lady, and I know that she attends a Day with Mary.[/quote]

Cool! Does her complexion happen to be dark? I guessed that she had to be a Catholic from the east part of Africa.

The woman I saw was wearing a black full length Niqab like garb.

[quote name='misereremi' post='1866369' date='May 13 2009, 10:37 PM']I think she is Gheez rite but usually attends Tridentine mass. And yes those are her cultural garms- and aren't they gorgeous. I have a few Gheez rite friends but they've adopted the Western dress.[/quote]

Yes! I knew she had to be some sort of eastern rite Catholic and my first thought was that her clothes were cultural and not so much religious!

I did a google search for Geez rite, and found this Church:

[url="http://kidane-mehret.org/desk1.html"]http://kidane-mehret.org/desk1.html[/url]

It looks like the the Geez rite is of Ethiopian origin and is of the Alexandrian rite:

[url="http://%20<a%20href="http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm"%20target="_blank">http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm</a>"] [url="http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm"]http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm[/url][/url]


[quote name='misereremi' post='1866369' date='May 13 2009, 10:37 PM']There's another lady I know who wears darker jilbab, usually black..with a large crucifix. People always ask her if she's Muslim. That is literally just what she chooses to wear, she's a Latin Rite Catholic Londoner.[/quote]

I think that this may be her if she's a londoner and wears black clothing. Is she stand offish when strangers query her religion or Catholic rite?

Just so you know, I think the Church I saw her in was in Kingsley or somewhere else in North London. It was the Day With Mary a few weeks before the one held in Westminster Abbey.

[b]PS- If she happens to stumble upon this thread somehow, I hope she doesn’t think I’m stalking her. [/b]Her appearance, not only attire but facial features, are just very striking, in particular when contrasted amongst a group of people who were wearing dull winter/autumn coats.

[ariaane]

[quote name='Hilde' post='1866356' date='May 13 2009, 10:31 PM']I seriously thought you would talk about an apparition you thought you had or something.

Maybe a lay person in an order?

Eastern European?

Muslim woman sniffing around?[/quote]

We've pinpointed down her origins to be of the Geez rite of the Alexandrian Catholic Church.

I'm almost certain I've found out her identity.

[Ash Wednesday]

It sure would be cool if people talked about me on the internets like that.

"Who was that scrappy looking blonde girl at church with the jacket with the little skating hockey penguin on the back? She was stunning!"




Oh, maybe not.

[quote name='the lords sheep' post='1866397' date='May 13 2009, 04:50 PM']Glad to hear it's not such a problem elsewhere, though![/quote]


Well, I was just going to say, the only time I ever encountered a "rude" European was in....yes, Italy.

I found them to be either really rude, or really nice. No in-between with them.

Edited May 13, 2009 by Ash Wednesday

[ariaane]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1866419' date='May 13 2009, 11:22 PM']It sure would be cool if people talked about me on the internets like that.

"Who was that scrappy looking blonde girl at church with the jacket with the little skating hockey penguin on the back? She was stunning!"

Oh, maybe not. [/quote]



But hey, if you went to mass in east Africa, you’d probably provoke the same curiosity.

There’d probably be a curious bystander creating internet threads querying the identity of the “scrappy looking blonde girl at church with the jacket with the little skating hockey penguin on the back”.

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1866419' date='May 13 2009, 11:22 PM']Well, I was just going to say, the only time I ever encountered a "rude" European was in....yes, Italy.

I found them to be either really rude, or really nice. No in-between with them. [/quote]

It must be something in the water, or in the baguettes...

[puellapaschalis]

Baguettes? Is there an Italy-baguette connection?

[CatherineM]

I just came back from my favorite Italian bakery. No baguettes though, got some fresh polenta.

[Socrates]

[quote name='KevinSymonds' post='1865902' date='May 13 2009, 08:02 AM']to be honest, I thought this was going to be a "Did I just see the Blessed Mother?" thread.[/quote]
Same here.

But maybe that's who she was.

[Hassan]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1866419' date='May 13 2009, 04:22 PM']Well, I was just going to say, the only time I ever encountered a "rude" European was in....yes, Italy.

I found them to be either really rude, or really nice. No in-between with them. [/quote]