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Should I cut my hair?


zabbazooey

Should I cut my hair to prepare to possibly enter the convent?  

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[quote name='zabbazooey' date='Aug 20 2005, 02:27 PM']The Carmelite have an invesititure ceremony when you become a Novice...

I'm going to grow it out till it hits the floor for my ceremony!
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Actually, they (Carmelites DCJ) have investiture, but you have to have short hair going into postulancy. The same is true for the Sisters of St Francis of the Martyr St. George.

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[quote name='jgirl' date='Aug 20 2005, 09:51 PM']Actually, they (Carmelites DCJ) have investiture, but you have to have short hair going into postulancy. The same is true for the Sisters of St Francis of the Martyr St. George.
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it depends on the community, i know most dont really care but as long as it up put up inot a bun or somethinglike that!!!!!!!!! i knwo most communities insist that your hair in short but i dont think it makes much of a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Piccoli Fiori JMJ

I was in that boat myself, and I am going to keep it long so that it can be another thing I can give to Christ. Also long hair is symbolic of youth and being "unwed" so to say...

I haven't cut my hair in a long time, nor have I colored it... I haven't done anything at all really with it...

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[quote name='zabbazooey' date='Aug 20 2005, 03:02 PM'][url="http://www.carmelitedcj.org"]http://www.carmelitedcj.org[/url]

I want to enter Fall 2006

Hopefully they'll let me in! ^_^
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How beautiful! I'm surprised I haven't heard of them before!

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  • 10 months later...

Sister Mary Gabriel was adamant that I not cut my hair prior to investiture, because Mother Angelica gets a kick out of cutting hair at investitures. From what I hear she cackles, because she likes it so much. lol. I can just picture that.

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puellapaschalis

Sounds a bit scary, actually. If you didn't know any better, how would [i]you[/i] interpret the image of an old nun cackling at cutting a young woman's hair off?

I'm getting a Rapunzel-flashback here... :ninja: :P:

Love and prayers,

PP

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memory-singer

Ah hair.....

Enjoy the it while you have it :P: (Let Mother Angelica enjoy cutting it off.) Mine is almost to my waist. My hope is to donate it to "Locks of Love" after i enter the novitiate. (My mother has brought up the hair question several times and I assured her, I can be a postulant with my hair pinned up.)

Pax,

Dare

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I am trying to grow mine out too so I can donate it :) I think I read they need at least 10" which is going to be a a stretch seeing as I decided to chop my hair off for the first time ever a few months ago lol. I can totally see Mother Angelica getting a kick out of cutting it off, she is hysterical! I wonder if they continue to cut it short through the years???? I hope Mother Angelica is still well enough to participate if I join the PCPA's :)

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i could be wrong but i think those are the Carmelites that an old skool phatmasser named 'prayeree' joined...

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be_thou_my_vision

I think you should wait until you get your acceptance letter if God is calling you there... cut it in celebration!

God Bless

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[quote name='zunshynn' post='1024529' date='Jul 14 2006, 01:19 PM']
Sister Mary Gabriel was adamant that I not cut my hair prior to investiture, because Mother Angelica gets a kick out of cutting hair at investitures. From what I hear she cackles, because she likes it so much. lol. I can just picture that.
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That was Sr. Ashley.... now she's Sr. Maria Magdalena of the Merciful Redeemer. She's fulfilling her canonical year in the cloister right now. And she has a blood sister in the cloister named Sr. Marie Ste. Anne.

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