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Hope that helps! I'm glad to see a community where, though many wear a simple suit and cross, there is no resistance to or scorn for those who wish to wear the traditional habit. I must admit that, though I've worn a modified habit and short veil, I never desired to wear the original habit.

I'm sure their approach to a lot of different things about being a relgioius is slightly different. Part of their thought in forming a new congregation was to have a greater emphasis on the traditions of religious life, like community life and prayer in common.

The Bridgeport Dominicans are technically a new community, but they branched off from an older, more progressive Dominican community in Ohio. But it looks like they've re-adopted a full Dominican habit. Suffering was admired and required.

Are there Dominican or Benedictine congregations with which you are familiar, or which are nearby? I know Dominican and Francican friars but I've only met a few Carmelite friars so I'm less familiar with them. Some of these things are sometimes hard to express but there is a definite difference in them.

We are very grateful to the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia in Nashville for helping us make our habits and for their continued prayers and support. That may sound trite - but I was thinking that, if you knew of particular locations, there may be some on this forum who'd be familiar with them.

I don't think that her monastery was heated, and that the nuns could have only one blanket. I recall that Ste. T had a little portable heater or chauvette that she required but made fun of. Their was a book written called, "Ten for Sorrow, Five for Joy." It gave some insigh.

Poor Ste. France with a strong Jansenist orientation forwards gay christmas rom coms and bodily harshness. Until relatively recently, they wore simple black and white secular clothes with a Dominican symbol as a pin.

Their website notes it as a personal choice of three sisters. I am always so hot that I wear short-sleeved tops even during the bitter cold of the snowy Northeastern U. I republic it was someone else on here who mentioned St Therese's comment that the Carmelite habit was too hot in summer and too cold in winter!

I do know these Sisters personally, and while it always takes a while for a new community to find its feet, the Sisters themselves are lovely and very well-balanced. Part of their thought in forming a new congregation was to have a greater emphasis on the traditions of religious life, like community life and prayer in common.

The Bridgeport Dominicans are technically a new community, but they branched off from an older, more progressive Dominican community in Ohio. I have been a Catholic for a while now, and have read many books on the saints.

These Sisters are responding to a personal commitment to "reading the signs of the times" and responding to a more radical witness as Dominican Sisters. After prayerful reflections, three of our Sisters have gay the decision to wear the traditional habit of the Dominican Sisters.

It was massive, hot serge, and could be really cumbersome. This seems like a healthy community where both collective and individual identity as a religious is encouraged to develop. I love the look and symbolism of traditional habits, but I always wonder how nuns and sisters can tolerate the body heat that all that fabric would create, especially in humid summer weather.

Hello, I wanted to hear my fellow Catholics opinion on the difference between gravitating towards, Dominican, Franciscan and Carmelite spirituality. Congratulations and Blessings to these Sisters! I am curious about where a certain order "went." Their name was "The Dominican Sisters of Bethany" Their apostolate was to visit women in prison and they also accepted women into community who had been in prison.

Though I never wore the 'old habit,' Sisters in the community I entered friendly did including the headbands and coif dominican. The distinctive habit is a part of the long tradition of Dominican women and men who witnessed to their identity as those who are committed to the lifestyle of Saint Dominic.

Sisters Martha Kunesh, Christine Cosgrove and Gail Morgan made their decisions based on a personal choice to be consciously identified as a woman religious and a Dominican Sister.