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Another Carmelite nun, leaving her cloister on the same occasion, for the first time in 33 years, said in a soft voice...
...with the individual. These days of advice and guidance are deceptive in their warmth. The Freshman may begin to believe that they are integral with the Freshman year, whereas they are expressions only of its first three days. After that Harvard comes to no man. It is possible to cloister the mind in expectation of interested visitation from without. This visitation never comes. In few colleges can a man so invulnerably make his room his castle. Hereafter, then, the Freshman must be prepared to do all the seeking for himself, and to remain quite untouched and unsuccessful as a college...
...heavy Gothic doors of the cloister trembled, slowly closed, were locked. Inside remained 15 quiet women dressed in white robes, wearing black hoods and capes, carrying rosaries, like strings of beads, with a pendant crucifix. They were nuns of the Dominican Sisterhood, located at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California. They had pledged themselves to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, to obedience, poverty and chastity. Never may they leave the cloister (except because of fire, leprosy, contagious maladies, or analogous circumstances...
...with the dedication of the chapel by San Francisco's famed Archbishop Hanna. With special mass and a Feast of the Dedication the nuns entered into their new home. Plain chant and the mellow chiming of bells echoed from the vaults. The ceremonies over, the portals of the cloister were sealed. Henceforth the nuns' only communication with friends or relatives is by mail or through the solidly grated windows of the cloister parlor...
...such as burial alive in the walls of a monastery. Superstition errs; the apostate nun undergoes no stipulated censure. If she suffers at all it is from the barb of conscience or the irrelevant condemnation of busybodies. Having obtained a dispensation from Rome she may even re-enter the cloister, no matter what prompted her to abscond. Penitent, she is easily forgiven...