Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite her heavy duties, she always willingly helped those who asked her for spiritual help or philosophical guidance. However, during this period she was possessed with a drive for perfection, occasionally was sharply intolerant of those who could not match her Spartan spiritual pace, e.g., she scolded a nun for hinting that it was sometimes hard to stay awake during prayers...
...explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student who studies ballet. The reason: the scanty costumes (leotard and tutu) used by ballet dancers and the "extraordinary positions," as one nun put it, assumed in mixed company...
...cannot understand how any writer can say that a nun's life is a normal and natural vocation . . . Celibacy, flagellation and corporal penances, as practiced by the Carmelites, took place during the Dark Ages of history . . . Whether one believes in Mother Nature, the process of evolution, or God, logic tells us that our purpose in life is not to castigate . . . and punish ourselves in order to attain a state of being outside the realm of man's experience, but to live according to the times with healthy outlooks both of clear mind and sound body...
Such girls are just the kind whose friends say: "Oh, but not you! You're not the type for a nun." Why, then, do they choose the life? The answer, in the Catholic view, lies in the mysterious stirring called "vocation." A vocation is not to be measured in mere piety or a ready turning to prayer. Nor is it usually revealed in a traumatic spiritual experience, like Paul's blinding light on the Damascus road. A sense of vocation for the religious life is the insistent conviction that the decision represents God's will...
...appreciate the gaiety of the recreation hour after a day-long silence. Barring homesickness, the postulant is likely to be happy during her first few convent months. But, as New York-born Carmelite Mother Catherine Thomas puts it, in her autobiography, My Beloved, The Story of a Carmelite Nun, "Postulants are new brides; and like other new brides, for the most part they are blissfully ignorant of the trials that lie ahead...