Adj. 1. Catholic - of or relating to or supporting Catholicism; "the Catholic Church" 2. catholic - free from provincial prejudices or attachments; "catholic in one's tastes" broad-minded - inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own; "a judge who is broad-minded but...
Religious Dress in the Everyday Lives of Polish Catholic Nuns This article explores the role of the religious habit in the lives of Catholic sisters in Poland. It is based on research data from qualitative interviews carried out by the author in five Polish convents. The argument focuses on ...
Cistercians.—Religious of the Order of Citeaux, a Benedictine reform, established at Citeaux in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme in the Diocese of Langres,...
At both universities the Carmelites and Augustinians also had their convents. The members of these orders in their community life enjoyed many advantages; a permanent home in which their material needs were provided for, regular hours of study, discipline and religious practice; and for each ...
Translated out of laten in to frensshe, and nowe of late in to Englisshe by Margaret countess of Richmond & derby. London: Richard Pynson. Google Scholar Bowden, Caroline. 2015. “The English Convents in Exile and Their Neighbours: Extended Networks, Patrons, Benefactors.” In Early ...
A schola is a group of men trained to sing the chant (in convents, this may be a group of women). "A Traditional Chapel Sings Gregorian Chant" CD Series Although there are many recordings made in recording studios, or sometimes in larger churches or monasteries with professional or ...
This article examines the production of consecrated femininity in contemporary Polish convents. Drawing on qualitative data from 35 interviews in five religious communities the article explores the type of female agency which transforms the dominant model of Polish femininity instead of resisting it. ...
Perhaps you want to enlighten the rest of us, but, why so much zeal? What’s in it for you? Those who really leave and don’t look back do not do what you are doing. Think about it. Reply Andrew Williams August 3, 2022 at 10:30 pm Karl Keating, I believe that your ...
By the blood of Christ Crucified, double the number of vocations to consecrated life in cloistered convents and monasteries in North and South America. If these men and women knew how much the diabolical fears them, their virginity chastity celibacy obedience poverty prayers, they would enter thos...
convents, all of them refusing the impoverished peasant, with no dowry. That is, until the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy took, well, mercy on her, on condition that she work until she could pay for her own habit. Which she did, entering the novitiate one year later...