Is It Shallow

[HeavenlyCalling]

[quote name='Marieteresa' post='1195286' date='Feb 14 2007, 07:22 PM']
Sorry to digress here for a second....

What is considered a modified habit? Wearing a simple dress? Or maybe there is no real criteria for wearing a modified habit? Thanks
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I dont know, I have seen different people have different opinions on this.

Technically you could consider the Nashville Dominicans habit modified, because they updated in sometime in the 60s or 70s, but if you followed that logic, then the SMME, who wear the same habit as the ND, would not be considered modified because they never had a habit that needed to be updated.

I think that most people think of it as a shorter tunic and veil.

[stlmom]

[quote name='HeavenlyCalling' post='1195479' date='Feb 14 2007, 09:08 PM']
I dont know, I have seen different people have different opinions on this.

Technically you could consider the Nashville Dominicans habit modified, because they updated in sometime in the 60s or 70s, but if you followed that logic, then the SMME, who wear the same habit as the ND, would not be considered modified because they never had a habit that needed to be updated.

I think that most people think of it as a shorter tunic and veil.
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Back in my day, most sisters' habits were floor length, with heads covered by wimple or coif, and veils that hung down to the waistline. So to me, a modified habit is anything that is shorter than floor length and exposes more of the face.

[Marieteresa]

Does just wearing a simple dress and no veil....Is this considered a habit?

[HeavenlyCalling]

[quote name='Marieteresa' post='1195497' date='Feb 14 2007, 10:20 PM']
Does just wearing a simple dress and no veil....Is this considered a habit?
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I dont know, it depends, I suppose that if every one in the order wore it, then yes, it would be. I usually think of a habit as including a veil, but that is just me.

[DiscerningSoul]

[quote name='Sister Jacqulyn' post='1195394' date='Feb 14 2007, 08:45 PM']
Our visible witness is a NON-NEGOTIABLE and the religious life that we aspire to MUST BE A RADICAL SIGN OF GOD IN OUR LIVES! The habit that I wear does say to the world "servant of God" and it is a reminder to people of Him who Is.

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I belive this, wearing the habit is an important sign, a witness to God's call.

I remember when my mom told me to talk to a sister that went to our church, I waited weeks for this "sister" and I went to my mom and asked her where this sister was I did not see her, and she had to point her out to me, because she wore civilian clothes with only a cross around her neck.
Another time we had some deaf people at our church and a sister was signing for them, I had no idear she was a sister until father thank her for helping at the masses, she wore a tiny pin on her collar.

I have always felt drawn to convents with full traditional habits.



Jessica
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[Zkelly]

[quote name='Marieteresa' post='1195497' date='Feb 14 2007, 10:20 PM']
Does just wearing a simple dress and no veil....Is this considered a habit?
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no, I would say it does not. Not just because no veil is worn, but because this doesn't seperate one from the world. In my opinion, it would do nothing that a habit should (see my link to the carmelite site). So for instance

[img]http://www.modestapparelusa.com/images/dress_blue_floral_ellen.jpg[/img]

is this woman a nun?

[img]http://beyondrivalry.blogspirit.com/images/medium_ardethplatte.jpg[/img]

what about that woman?

How about these women?

[img]http://www.bcysth.ca/photo_gallery/events/abuselaunch/images/grannies.jpg[/img]

any of those women nuns?

or this one?

[img]http://my.homewithgod.com/israel/lady/ida3.jpg[/img]

or lastly this one:

[img]http://www.westga.edu/~cgoodson/nun.jpg[/img]

Do you see how much a habit has to set off the religious from the world. It has (again IMHO) to be EASILY recognisable that these people are here to be intercessors and people of prayer. BTW, the second and last pictures were nuns.