The generosity of these women to teach, nurse, and care for others while living humbly in community is amazing to me. Amazing Grace in their souls. God reward them and inspire others to take the "road less traveled" that has made all the difference.
Having gone to Catholic school taught by SSND nuns back in the 50's, I was amazed to see some of my teachers without their veils after the second Vatican Counsel changes in clerical clothing took effect. It made me feel they were real people in a funny costume! This revelation became a fact as my "auntie sister" of the St. Joseph teaching nuns was revealed to me.
A little more research would show that the habits of many religious orders reflected the dress of ordinary or poor people (Daughters of Wisdom, Sisters of Notre Dame), even widows (e.g. Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph ) when their communities were founded. Different from nuns who live within a monastery, Sisters worked among the people, and so wore local type clothing to be able to do so. The Second Vatican Council in the latter half of the 1900s called religious communities to look at their roots, the principles of their founders, to reflect those rules and values, to be contemporary once again.
Some of them were over the top. Corse heavy material that was not washable and that cake box on top of their head. The Poor Clare's had a coif that went over their chin. It needed to be modified.
If you mean the head pieces, the ones like wings are called coifs. The band across the forehead is a filet. The sisters who wear veils ( usually white for novices or preliminary vows and black or brown for the fully professed depending upon the order) have filets, and coifs as well, with the coifs often cutting off peripheral vision. The wimple is the part that goes under the chin, often draping down the chest, and for the nuns wearing veils maybe attached to the coifs. The long cloth over their shoulders is the scapula. Some nuns carry full rosaries with fifteen decades rather than the usual five decades of the chaplet that most people call a rosary. The joyful, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries each have their own decade that way.
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Yes i had figured that out but I could not find anything for the largest/widest one. As such I thank you for providing more accurate terminology. It will undoubtedly aid in my research
I think you might be speaking of the "hats" worn by the Order called The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent dePaul. These were the famous sisters known by various pet names "God's Geese" or "the Flying Nuns" The large folded linen "hat" was properly called the cornet. Underneath was worn a white closefitting tied-on cap which attached at the back by pins to the cornet-- and so the whole structure was closely attached to her head. There is much more to know - told to me by a Sister who had worn that habit (the whole outfit) for more than 25 years.
I love and respect the old habits. It shows that you are proud of your faith and traditions.
The generosity of these women to teach, nurse, and care for others while living humbly in community is amazing to me. Amazing Grace in their souls. God reward them and inspire others to take the "road less traveled" that has made all the difference.
Amen
Yes. If you're a nun you should look like one. Vatican II said to adapt your habit according to the work you do--NOT get rid of it altogether.
Love snd respected till this day. Love them
Having gone to Catholic school taught by SSND nuns back in the 50's, I was amazed to see some of my teachers without their veils after the second Vatican Counsel changes in clerical clothing took effect. It made me feel they were real people in a funny costume! This revelation became a fact as my "auntie sister" of the St. Joseph teaching nuns was revealed to me.
A little more research would show that the habits of many religious orders reflected the dress of ordinary or poor people (Daughters of Wisdom, Sisters of Notre Dame), even widows (e.g. Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph ) when their communities were founded. Different from nuns who live within a monastery, Sisters worked among the people, and so wore local type clothing to be able to do so. The Second Vatican Council in the latter half of the 1900s called religious communities to look at their roots, the principles of their founders, to reflect those rules and values, to be contemporary once again.
My grade school sister SSND was not shown nor my Auntie Sister SSSJ
Yes. The world is a mess since second vatican. Fail. People want to recognize the religious and look up to their aspirational nature for HIM. ❤
Some of them were over the top. Corse heavy material that was not washable and that cake box on top of their head. The Poor Clare's had a coif that went over their chin. It needed to be modified.
But not abandoned !!
Why torture yourself ?!
They are renouncing life in this world, the convents had to be rigids with discipline and mortification
@@zuarbrincar769 Rigid to the point of insanity?
@@steveshapiro326 Insanity for me is a man destroying himself just for identifying as a woman, not a nun wearing a habit
Do the large folded cloths have a special name? I am looking but it seems they are all called "habits?"
If you mean the head pieces, the ones like wings are called coifs. The band across the forehead is a filet. The sisters who wear veils ( usually white for novices or preliminary vows and black or brown for the fully professed depending upon the order) have filets, and coifs as well, with the coifs often cutting off peripheral vision. The wimple is the part that goes under the chin, often draping down the chest, and for the nuns wearing veils maybe attached to the coifs.
The long cloth over their shoulders is the scapula. Some nuns carry full rosaries with fifteen decades rather than the usual five decades of the chaplet that most people call a rosary. The joyful, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries each have their own decade that way.
@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 Yes i had figured that out but I could not find anything for the largest/widest one. As such I thank you for providing more accurate terminology. It will undoubtedly aid in my research
I think you might be speaking of the "hats" worn by the Order called The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent dePaul. These were the famous sisters known by various pet names "God's Geese" or "the Flying Nuns" The large folded linen "hat" was properly called the cornet. Underneath was worn a white closefitting tied-on cap which attached at the back by pins to the cornet-- and so the whole structure was closely attached to her head. There is much more to know - told to me by a Sister who had worn that habit (the whole outfit) for more than 25 years.
NOOOOOO
Some of them are really unattractive while others are "doable"
What if that was your mom or sister?
@@ThommyofThenn Well, clearly my mom was doable otherwise I wouldn't be here.
@@Youngstown529😂😂😂
Touche!