Sentences with phrase «as a nun with»

In the video Latins Do It Better (Madonna Meets Sor Kitty), 2008, Sastre stakes out the singer's London town house dressed as a nun with a Hello Kitty head.

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As she converses with nuns, spies and backpackers throughout the Balkans and Middle East, she discovers understandings of the sacred in the most unexpected of encounters.

Dear Reality; Speaking as one who has had many, many clergy serving the needs of many people over a century I must take issue with you on your «no clerics, no nuns, no bibles» etc..

The witness said he was regularly stripped and beaten with a belt by around six different nuns and cried as he told the inquiry one of the Catholic Sisters called him a «mum killer».

We had the nicest most sincere nuns teaching us when I was a child — apparently I was one of the «lucky ones» as there are so many stories about the «mean old nuns» wrapping knuckles with rulers and more.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

Using biographical vignettes (with photos) of monks, abbots, bishops, nuns, and «fools for Christ,» its author, Archimandrite Tikhon, paints a powerful picture of the courage and cleverness Orthodox monastics deployed to survive Soviet persecutions» even as it shatters the stereotype of monks as dour men dressed in black who never enjoy themselves and are ignorant of and indifferent to the outside world.

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

Standing in front of the United Methodist Building near the U.S. Capitol, the «Nuns on the Bus,» as they have billed themselves, rallied an excited crowd with stories from the road and a call to action for future protests to protect social programs.

From throwing money defaced with words such as «love» away on Wall Street, to helping nuns pour blood on battleships, or handing out food to the homeless in a park (an illegal act in his city, Philadelphia), Claiborne's Christianity is not for the squeamish, but it has inspired many outside of the Church to take another look at the faith.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

(Oddly enough, it can actually be seen as a strong statement in support of the death penalty since it is through the confluence of the nun's care to the murderer, along with the imminence of his death, that De Rocher is finally brought to the self «recognition that, in turn, makes his redemption possible.)

The priest sex - abuse scandal, a Vatican crackdown on nuns, a head - knocking fight with the president of the United States over contraceptive coverage - none of these would qualify as good news.

We muslims don't call our women: Bitches, hores... and the majority of muslim women actually have the choice to choose to wear the veil (if you go to a Catholic church women are asked to wear the veil... nuns are fully covered... even Marry the mother of Jesus used to cover and that is because these women know they are diamonds and you have to really deserve her to be able to see more and that is only gonna be her husband, and parents... If you have a precious and very expensive diamond in your possession don't tell me you would leave it outside of your house but you would leave your trash outside of your house... same thing with women especially and by the way this apply to men as well in Islam... A woman actually is the queen of her household, and when they are so aware of their status within her community, as more like a mother, she is committed to her husband, kids and parents exclusively... she is busy taking care of her loved ones and enjoys it and happy so why you ask her to show you her cleavage if she doesn't think you deserve her... Muslim women are not any different than all women, they only like to wear the veil and not show their beauty to you... what?

That we do not wholly respect each other is inarguable; I credit «nun on the bus» Sister Simone Campbell for speaking with refreshing honesty when she said, «I have allowed a very narrow perspective on what is life... I don't want to be thought of as in [the pro-life] camp.

But neither More's relatively enlightened Catholicism, nor Erasmus's quiet following of the gospel, both within the bounds of the old institution, measured up to the excitement being felt by so many men and women as they read the New Testament, brooded on it, compared it with the teaching and life - style of the monks, nuns and priests they knew.

But hey what do I know I'm not a nun with Stockholm Syndrome so I am doubtlessly missing some esoteric point that totally escapes me unless I think of them as mental patients, which they sort of are...

Nuns are wonderful people and it is a vocation which I would certainly promote in our youth group but as a married woman I often find I do not identify with the lives of these good people.

Our Halloween festivities started on Saturday night with a get - together at a friend's house where we drank jello shots out of huge syringes, boogied down with Napoleon dynamite and a slutty nun, ate my annual spinach «throw - up» dip out coming out of a pumpkin's mouth, and clowned around until the wee hours... solid party as you can tell.

Marie and her fellow nuns teach Mo how to prepare one of their favorite soups with sausage and vegetables, and a pineapple cake that could be described as divine.

New Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink thoroughly enjoyed his previous stint in West London, as this image of him playing head tennis at Stamford Bridge with a group of nuns demonstrates...

and if u have an issue with women covering, thinks nuns we do nt think of nuns being brainwashed, braindead and and yes nuts do exist in my religion as they do in all others)

I met her at the daycare center that my friend Marie Jose, a Catholic nun with 20 years of service in that country, had quickly put together to address the emergency of the alarming number of orphaned children as the pandemic took more lives each day.

Also love how high it sits and LOVE LOVE LOVE the nun car seat paired with this as well.

I wouldn't expect any Moslem woman to wear a nun's habit, as it's clearly associated with another religion so wearing it could be considered defecting Islam.

It's a good rate, and as Mulembakani and his INRB entourage are waved through to meet with the nuns who operate the facility, dozens of ailing patients lie on mats outside the gates, begging for the copay, on the threshold between the squalor outside and the orderly hospital wards.

He decided, after a few days of meetings with journalists and scientists, that dietary fat was the villain, and that refined carbohydrates were as innocent as a nun in a convent.

A primary goal of Kundalini Yoga is a spiritual awakening, so Joan Shivarpita Harrigan, a brahmacharini (Vedic nun) and director of Patanjali Kundalini Yoga Care USA in Knoxville, Tennessee, isn't at all concerned with the purely physical aspects of Sun Salutations, such as opening the hamstrings or building a tight core.

Replace the familiar Nun, Shin, Gimel and Hey with a more fun and a flirty gesture such as a kiss, hug, neck, or peck.

Within weeks, he's picking Pita up from school (when one of the nuns there asks whether he ever sees «the hand of God» in what he does, he admits, «I'm the sheep that got lost»), coaching her at swimming («There's no such thing as tough, there's trained and untrained»), helping her with homework, and looking after her new dog, a present from dad, who's feeling guilty about the frequent, unspecified trips he takes with mom.

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

Disguising themselves as nuns and painters, the two friends carry out hits with relative precision against the hardened hoods that share their profession.

Quvenzhané Wallis is attached to star as the orphan Annie, with Cameron Diaz portraying Agatha Hannigan, the mean - spirited nun who runs the orphanage Annie was raised in, before Daddy Warbucks (Jamie Foxx) takes her in.

«Ida» Synopsis: In 1960s Poland, a young orphan girl about to take her vows as a nun discovers that she's Jewish, and sets out on a road trip with her only living relative.

Some will view the movie as anti-Catholic (replete with cruel nuns)... it is difficult to defend the painful childbirth, isolated mothers, selling of children and lack of assistance in reconciling the parties.

And as for breakout performances, we could probably have populated half this list with names from the show — Eve Hewson is destined for next - big - thing ingenue status; Cara Seymour is genius as the abortionist nun Sister Harriet, especially sparring with Chris Sullivan's boorish ambulanceman; Juliet Rylance is similarly excellent as the patrician liberal Cornelia and of course the show offers established star Clive Owen his best role ever.

Dragonfly, for all its intimations of totemic spirituality and faux religiosity (going so far as to provide Linda Hunt, Dragonfly's third Oscar - winner, a walk - on as a homuncular nun), is ultimately a vapid shuck - and - jive with all the depth of a traveling medicine show.

It's as if they were all worried the real nuns would rap them on the knuckles with a ruler.

Jenny Agutter provides «Call the Midwife» with a solid center as the head of the order of nuns with whom the midwives live and work, and several other razor - sharp character actors fill out other roles extremely well, but Miranda Hart, who plays Chummy, walks off with the show.

For Best Supporting Actress, the nominees were Amy Adams, as an impressionable young nun in «Doubt;» Penélope Cruz, as a possessive lover in «Vicky Cristina Barcelona;» Viola Davis as an impassioned mother in «Doubt;» Taraji P. Henson as the loving woman who finds and raises Benjamin Button; and Marisa Tomei as a stripper who is friendly with the lonely «Wrestler.»

In the film, we then find the 32 - year - old actress playing a ratchet nun, so as a little promo for the project, it's only right that Plaza link up with some actual nuns — sort of.

It's difficult not to gain at least a smidgen of pleasure from seeing Plaza — finally finding her big - screen footing with this and pitch - black Instagram comedy Ingrid Goes West — as a foul - mouthed nun causing mayhem.

As they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owAs they stand face - to - face and Cathleen announces she is going to become a nun and proclaims «I'm in love with God», we all share the parent's pain as a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her owas a mother stares back incredulously, knowing full well a 17 year old is incapable of making such a decision on her own.

Fearing the shame of exposure, the hostility of the occupying Soviet troops and local Polish communists and while facing an unprecedented crisis of faith, the nuns increasingly turn to Mathilde as their beliefs and traditions clash with harsh realities.

opens with a promising title sequence: medieval - era nun Aubrey Plaza leads a donkey through the woods as dramatic, orchestral music plays.

One of the nuns is exposed as a Jew, to round out the physical comedy with some attempts at verbal wit.

The script boils over with organic humor, achingly human characters (Lilia Skala shimmers as «Mother Maria,» the proud leader of the nuns), and one of the most gentle and affecting stories about faith and generosity ever committed to film.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

That wasn't as bad as the other thing that happened, which is that someone walked into the wrong bedroom one night and tried to climb into bed with a nun.

While Jamie struggles with family responsibilities, Ella's steampunk murder mystery develops a life of its own, raising disturbing memories of her time as a striptease artist and a past life as a sexually abused Italian nun.