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| Topic Started: Sunday, 23. August 2009, 14:31 (102 Views) | |
| Mrs.Pogle | Sunday, 23. August 2009, 14:31 Post #1 |
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"Living Life on the Home Front!" My Blog: Life on the Home Front  “It is most laudable in a married woman to be devout, but she must never forget that she is a housewife. And sometimes she must leave God at the altar to find Him in her housekeeping.” ~ St. Frances of Rome | |
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| Derekap | Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 15:03 Post #2 |
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Some years ago a young nun used to speed around the streets of York on a sports bicycle with her hands not off the handlebars. Another nun came in the office to book her return flight to Ireland. The timings of the return flight were such that she either had to leave home or arrive late evening in the convent. She paused a long time, then I asked if she was afraid of having to climb the drainpipe to get into the convent. She immediately, to my embarassment, hid her head in her hands on the counter. However, a minute or so later she looked-up and gave me her decision -I can't remember what it was. A few days later a fellow sister came in and I told her what had happened. She said I guessed right, she was always going out and forgetting her key and having to climb the drainpipe to get in. I suspect she was an Irish version of Sister Maria! The very small community left York so I don't know where she is now. Another occasion we had last minute instructions to issue a student at a public school with an air ticket. I contacted the school and was told one of the monks was coming into York and would call and collect it. Later in the day a middle-aged man came into the office wearing an open-necked shirt, a sports jacket and flannel trousers. It was the monk. I said amusingly I expected to see him in a dark suit and wearing the Roman-style bowler which was once typical of the community. "Oh!!" he replied " I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those!!! Years earlier in another office when air fares allowed changes of flight without inconvenience of any kind a group of Irish priests (individually) booked their usual post Christmas break home. Unfortunately the clerk concerned happened to tell one of them their Bishop was on the same flight out. He very soon get a series of telephone calls to alter bookings. Even years earlier during an outing to Knaresborough a friend and I met a priest we knew from York. He was embarrassed because he wasn't wearing a hat! It was the very beginning of a relaxed custom of formal dress. |
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| Patrick | Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 15:33 Post #3 |
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| Mrs.Pogle | Thursday, 27. August 2009, 23:06 Post #4 |
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That is some wimple! So are these...  And what about these Nuns? If you love pink, then the Holy Spirt Adoration Sisters might be the order for you! (I really like them! ) |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 29. August 2009, 23:04 Post #5 |
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The other sort of Chinese nun
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  Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards | |
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| Richard Hannay. | Sunday, 30. August 2009, 08:51 Post #6 |
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Edited by Richard Hannay., Sunday, 30. August 2009, 10:44.
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| Derekap | Sunday, 30. August 2009, 14:00 Post #7 |
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Nuns having fun!! Tut! Tut! |
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