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I found a picture of the habits that the nuns wore in my parish before the change:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7612636472_b54aff58e4_b.jpg

Certainly many of the habits were very penitential! The wimple and all that must have been so hot in the summer, etc.

I also have a habit as a Franciscan Tertiary. It is a full length scapular front and back and open at the sides with a cord about the waist. There is a Franciscan Crown rosary on the cord. We wear a medal as well.

A couple of years ago my pastor asked all those who were Oblates or Third Order members to have an information weekend. I was inundated with questions and comments and the others were not. I concluded that it was the habit that drew people to come to me.

We need our sisters, brothers, and friars to wear their habits and our priests to wear their clerics. These are powerful witnesses in the world. Also, one MUST behave well when wearing religious garb so as not to embarrass Our Lord!
 
Ave_Maria said:
I found a picture of the habits that the nuns wore in my parish before the change:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7612636472_b54aff58e4_b.jpg

Certainly many of the habits were very penitential! The wimple and all that must have been so hot in the summer, etc.

I also have a habit as a Franciscan Tertiary. It is a full length scapular front and back and open at the sides with a cord about the waist. There is a Franciscan Crown rosary on the cord. We wear a medal as well.

A couple of years ago my pastor asked all those who were Oblates or Third Order members to have an information weekend. I was inundated with questions and comments and the others were not. I concluded that it was the habit that drew people to come to me.

We need our sisters, brothers, and friars to wear their habits and our priests to wear their clerics. These are powerful witnesses in the world. Also, one MUST behave well when wearing religious garb so as not to embarrass Our Lord!
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Can you imagine the patience it took to iron and create all those little pleats!!!

Which order is this, as I am not familiar with all the initials.
 
Thanks for this photo! The order is Holy Cross (congregatio a Sancta Cruce) and is the order in my parish, both priests and sisters. Of course, the sisters don’t wear habits- but I’m sure at one time they did (they are older women). The sisters are delightful and fun women, and I plan to ask them if they ever wore these when I see them tomorrow! I can kind of picture them in this! 🙂
 
marbleartist said:
Thanks for this photo! The order is Holy Cross (congregatio a Sancto Cruz) and is the order in my parish, both priests and sisters. Of course, the sisters don’t wear habits- but I’m sure at one time they did (they are older women). The sisters are delightful and fun women, and I plan to ask them if they ever wore these when I see them tomorrow! I can kind of picture them in this! 🙂
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Thank you so much for the information.🙂

At my local library (King County Public Library), I found the following book and enjoyed it greatly.

The Habit: A history of the clothing of Catholic Nuns by Elizabeth Kuhns
 
=Ave Maria!;11849869]I found a picture of the habits that the nuns wore in my parish before the change:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7612636472_b54aff58e4_b.jpg
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Certainly many of the habits were very penitential! The wimple and all that must have been so hot in the summer, etc.
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I also have a habit as a Franciscan Tertiary. It is a full length scapular front and back and open at the sides with a cord about the waist. There is a Franciscan Crown rosary on the cord. We wear a medal as well.
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A couple of years ago my pastor asked all those who were Oblates or Third Order members to have an information weekend. I was inundated with questions and comments and the others were not. I concluded that it was the habit that drew people to come to me.
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We need our sisters, brothers, and friars to wear their habits and our priests to wear their clerics. These are powerful witnesses in the world. Also, one MUST behave well when wearing religious garb so as not to embarrass Our Lord!
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Thank you Sister, I couldn’t agree more.

I seem to recall something in Canon Law that mandates wearing the habit. We keep digging ourselves deeper and deeper into MY will being more important than "THY Will be done. It;s not a huge issue; but it does sadden me.

God Bless and thank you! I have never seen this particular habit before.

Patrick
 
Peggy_in_Burien said:
Can you imagine the patience it took to iron and create all those little pleats!!!

Which order is this, as I am not familiar with all the initials.
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IIRC, there was a little machine that created those pleats. I think it was a little like a pasta machine that the wimple was threaded through.
 
Book_Worm said:
IIRC, there was a little machine that created those pleats. I think it was a little like a pasta machine that the wimple was threaded through.
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Still a lot of work! My mom used to help starch and fold the coronets that the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul wore when she was a girl at their orphanage in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
 
The Sisters of Social Service, founded if I remember correctly in NYC or Chicago in the 1920’s or 30’s had a habit for within the convent and for work outside (usually Social Workers, and Midwives etc.) a tailored suit with skirt and hat which looks a bit like the caps worn by early Airline flight attendants. Modest, but modern. If anyone can find a picture please post them. I can’t find my pre-conciliar copy of the Habits of Sisters and Nuns.
 
Filioque said:
The Sisters of Social Service, founded if I remember correctly in NYC or Chicago in the 1920’s or 30’s had a habit for within the convent and for work outside (usually Social Workers, and Midwives etc.) a tailored suit with skirt and hat which looks a bit like the caps worn by early Airline flight attendants. Modest, but modern. If anyone can find a picture please post them. I can’t find my pre-conciliar copy of the Habits of Sisters and Nuns.
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Is this it?

http://wdtprs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12_10_18_SSS_habit_02.jpg
Oh… I have an aunt who used to wear a habit like the ones below…

 
Peggy_in_Burien said:
Aren’t the sisters in the lower picture Sisters of Providence? There were many here in the Seattle area, founded many schools.
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Yes they are! Lots of hospitals too. I’m sure they’re still serving in and around Seattle, though in reduced numbers of course.
 
ServusHumilis said:
Is this it?

http://wdtprs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12_10_18_SSS_habit_02.jpg
Oh… I have an aunt who used to wear a habit like the ones below…

http://i.imgbox.com/ua6A4KaV
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This is the same Sisters of Social Services, they had a second habit which was had the hat without the veil for work in the inner city. While there were other orders which had a tropical habit (usually the same as their original habit, but white and fabric not as heavy as their original habit. As well as other modified habits for work outside the convent. This applied to both male and female Religious.
 
Ave_Maria said:
I found a picture of the habits that the nuns wore in my parish before the change:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7612636472_b54aff58e4_b.jpg

Certainly many of the habits were very penitential! The wimple and all that must have been so hot in the summer, etc.

I also have a habit as a Franciscan Tertiary. It is a full length scapular front and back and open at the sides with a cord about the waist. There is a Franciscan Crown rosary on the cord. We wear a medal as well.

A couple of years ago my pastor asked all those who were Oblates or Third Order members to have an information weekend. I was inundated with questions and comments and the others were not. I concluded that it was the habit that drew people to come to me.

We need our sisters, brothers, and friars to wear their habits and our priests to wear their clerics. These are powerful witnesses in the world. Also, one MUST behave well when wearing religious garb so as not to embarrass Our Lord!
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I agree that habits are a wonderful thing. But unless I am willing to wear heels, hose, dresses and hats when I go out into the public, I am not going to expect anyone else to dress in uncomfortable clothes because, “I think I “need” to see them in uncomfortable clothing”

I will leave that decision to those who have to deal with the problems that come with such clothing.
 
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