Sentences with word «abbess»
An abbess is a female leader or supervisor of a convent or nunnery. She is in charge of overseeing religious activities and guiding the nuns under her care. Full definition
They were educated at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.
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The comments from Jo Abbess @ 371 are charming, but show just how out of touch this community is.
It is for this soaring finish that Audra McDonald reprises «Climb Ev'ry Mountain,» the breathtaking anthem that Mother Abbess introduces as she sends Maria into the world and into the von Trapp household.
Harrabin did as Abbess asked (probably just to get the shrieking lunatic off of his back... time will tell) and changed the text of his article.
Written by Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia.
Actress Lauren Kidwell plays Mother Abbess in the national tour of «The Sound of Music,» coming to the Boch Center Wang Theater from May 1 to 13.
Dammann and her partner, Nancy (Fu) Schroeder, the abiding abbess at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, had long stopped being romantic partners, but agreed to stay together to co-parent their wheelchair - bound daughter Sabrina, Isabel Allende's step - granddaughter, whom they adopted as an infant — born drug addicted and with cerebral palsy, and not expected to live long.
Dammann and her partner, Nancy (Fu) Schroeder, the abiding abbess at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, had long stopped being romantic partners, but agreed to stay together to co-parent their wheelchair - bound daughter Sabrina, Isabel Allende's step - granddaughter, whom they adopted as an infant — born drug addicted and with cerebral palsy, and not expected to live long.
The Mother Abbess noted how Mother Dolores «loves to take on new challenges» with «real reverence and real tenacity».
Abbess Blanca Cervantes defended the nun's decision and told the ABC de Sevilla newspaper: «It hasn't worked for 30 years, and we couldn't afford the estimated cost of more than 150,000 euros (# 135,000).
Three are in Latin and commemorate Abbess Aethelburg, probably of the local monastery.
The movie is written by Source Code's Ben Ripley, and he came up with the original idea with Abbess.
Fortunately, her mother Abbess sends her off on an assignment in the world.
Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
Writing a novel about Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century visionary abbess and polymath, was a daunting process.
This news comes in the wake of climate activist Jo Abbess's demands that the text of an article relating to the recent decline in world temperatures by BBC journalist Roger Harrabin be altered to reflect not the scientific reality, but to emphasise the catastrophic narrative.
Directed by Shane Abbess.
I like the descriptions of Clare's style as Abbess: her concern not to have favourites, her sense of the community being a family, her way of drawing all into decisions that needed to be made.
The production, which is based on the play rather than the film, also stars «True Bloods»» Stephen Moyer as Maria's boss and love interest, the strict Capt. Georg Von Trapp; Laura Benanti as the Captain's fiancée, Elsa Schrader; multiple Tony Award - winner and «Private Practice» star Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess and «Smash» alum Christian Borle as family friend Max Detweiler.
The abbess, Mother Bernadette (Deanna Dunagan), takes a gentler, more feminine approach.
Yet Heloise's limerence for Abelard continued with intensity while she was an abbess of the convent of the Paraclete.
Some abbesses were highly respected and consulted by bishops and priests.
That lead me to finding my own spiritual director, Sister Marie, now an Abbess of a monastery.
Queens and princesses, abbesses and prioresses held positions of wealth, power and influence in Church and State which they were solemnly adjured to use for the benefit of the common good.
The painting, depicting the Abbess of Romsey - Ethelflaeda - from the year 1000 shows her by a candle holding a Bible.
We have Heloise and Abelard, late in life, when she was an abbess and he an abbot — though to be sure, a great deal of suspicious scrutiny has been given to that friendship, naturally enough in light of their earlier erotic relationship.
The nuns reported finding a tiny crucifix in the abbess» heart, as well as three gallstones in her gallbladder, which they saw as symbolic of the Holy Trinity.
The first example of one of these «holy autopsies» came in 1308, when nuns conducted a dissection of the body of Chiara of Montefalco, an abbess who would be canonized as a saint in 1881.
So formidable is Sister Aloysius, the principal of the St. Nicholas Church School, whom the kids, her Catholic subordinates, fear, as evidenced by an early scene where the abbess» voice, like an electric charge, jolts the slumbering parishioners into a comically exaggerated alertness during Father Flynn's sermon, that we believe this woman, this nun, is all - powerful.
Shane Abbess, the Australian director behind the purgatory - set action movie Gabriel, is directing the movie 7th Day, which is a sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger cloning movie about «a voyage to establish a new colony in outer space.»
Judi will play the Abbess of St Ursula's, who rescues orphaned children, and Matthew will star as a bohemian artist.
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Then there's the Archbishop's coercion of the Abbess (Geraldine freakin» Chaplin) to find the Marquesa a lady - in - waiting companion for her loneliness (Adriana Dominguez).
The focus of Mortal Heart, Annith, an orphan, has always been the good acolyte, trying to keep the abbess pleased.
When the abbess leaves for the duchess» palace, Annith digs around and finds clues to her origins that haunt her.
So it is with shock and horror that she learns that the abbess intends her to be the new seer and that she will be living within the confines of the convent for the rest of her life.
She decides to confront the abbess about the lies that she's been told.
When I burst into the doors of the abbey and encounter the abbess, I need to figure out how to exploit her friendliness rather than defeat it.
Steel yourself for the impending onslaught of indignant emails from that crusading defender of «emerging truth», Jo Abbess.
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292 jo abbess: Just because you think the statistics required are elementary doesn't mean that the average person or average journalist understands statistics at that level.
Gerry Quinn and Jo Abbess, There was an interesting discussion about the recent paper showing little warming if CO2 emissions stopped.
Project Gutenberg — 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue — Francis Grose — A feast for word lovers here: old slang from ABBESS, or LADY ABBESS, A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.