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Dodge, here is a partial answer to your question about the nun you saw tonight. I wanted to answer you in a separate thread to 1) be sure you see the answer and 2) not run the last CH too far over 100 posts.

The nun you saw was most probably not a novice but a full-fledged nun.

In the 1960s, the Vatican issued a decree calling for the modification of religious habits which were "unsuitable to circumstances of time and place" of service.

This decree prompted many religious orders to abandon habits altogether. Others went with a modified habit of a short veil and a knee length dress. Still others wear a modest skirt & blouse w/ merely a headband. Many of these orders which radically changed their habits were non-cloistered nuns -- women who work as nurses, for instance, where long flowing robes would not just be cumbersome but also potentially unsanitary and detrimental.

Had the nun you saw been a novice, she most probably would have also been wearing a belt with three knots representing the vows of poverty, chasity and obedience she would take upon her first holy profession. If it is a white belt, it is known as a Franciscan belt.

Hope that helps.

Interesting info. Didn't know it.

Thank You merme.

Found it at last. Ok I dont know how the adventures of nuns go.
She was a very nice nun. She served the wine. I don't drink tho.LOL

My next door neighbor is an ex nun. She married a divorced man, even paid his wife off so he could marry her> How can one relate to that on?

Thanks again
barb

Dodge apparently nuns are subject to the same human frailties as the rest of us are. And, we know that the life of a Religious is not an easy one.

I knew a nun in Ohio who had a baby. She wasn't made to leave the order entirely although she no longer lived in community. She lived alone w/ the child and did not stop being a nun fully or marry the dad. I think that was a tough way to live given all the choices modern women have.

Well personally I think if they arent cut for that group, dont get into it.
God sees all mistakes an we are have a hard time entering the kingdom of heaven if we fail in our job for him.
THey should be booted, just like the priest who fail us.
Strictly my opinion.. I am a lifetime catholic an know they all make mistakes, but no so many in a row like now.