Sentences with phrase «live as nuns»

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Some are unknown, such as the Jewish drycleaner from his neighborhood, a former nun now living as a man, and a young man he ministered to who later shot himself, and others are more famous, like Venerable Solanus Casey, Mother Angelica, Cardinals Cooke and O'Connor, and Frank and Maisie Ward.

Monks and nuns don't get busted and they live concecrated lives as well.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

Two of the children later died in the influenza epidemic of 1919/20 and the third, Lucia, lived on to a great age as a Carmelite nun, dying in 2005.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

instead of living in the dark ages as the church demands, the nuns want to live in the 1700's.

In 1973, at the age of 42, after the premature death of her husband, Chiara found her vocation as a Franciscan nun and exchanged her riding breeches for a life of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Most of its hierarchy, as well as thousands of parish clergy, monks and nuns lost their liberty, and many lost their lives.

For the priest or the nun, (and here one admits to speak from knowledge), the first great joy of life as we get older is the humble joy of the love of God as an experience.

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.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

Though the nurse, Mathilde, is the film's viewpoint character, the nunnery as a whole is the film's protagonist, for the nuns must grow and change, respond to their trauma, and find a new way to live their vocations.

Many of us can think of monks and nuns (as well as of others who are not vocationally celibate but nonetheless actually so) who have been enabled to live fully and healthily, rechanneling their sexual drive toward other modes of expression that can make them loving, concerned, caring, and deeply devoted and committed people.

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.

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.

Although it's Hollywood, a touch schmaltzy, etc., there can be a kind of wholesomeness, bigness, spunkiness and engagement of life as it is by savvy nuns — as played by the great Roz Russell.

Depending on were you live, you may know French Toast as Bombay Toast, German Toast, Spanish Toast, Nun's Toast, Poor Knights of Windsor, Pain Perdue, Portuguese Toast, Arme Ritter, Arme Riddere, Torriga, or Egg Toast.

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.

The obvious example of this is nuns, brothers and priests who take vows that say they will not indulge in sexual pleasures as part of their daily lives.

But the story lives in the hearts of audiences because of Robert Wise's 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Andrews as Maria, the would - be nun trying to quench her yearning heart, and Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp, the stoic Austrian unwilling to reignite his.

«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.

Before her final vows, the novice nun Anna is propelled into a Poland heavily in the shadow of World War II to find that the opacities colouring day - to - day life are just as applicable to her.

Not bad for a movie characterized by Variety critic Peter Debruge, after its Telluride Film Festival premiere, as «the sort of joyless art film one might expect Polish nuns living under the clutches of 1960s communism to appreciate.»

As Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) settles into life as a Romanian Orthodox nun, her childhood friend Alina (Cristina Flutur) returns to try to draw her out of a life of deep religious pietAs Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) settles into life as a Romanian Orthodox nun, her childhood friend Alina (Cristina Flutur) returns to try to draw her out of a life of deep religious pietas a Romanian Orthodox nun, her childhood friend Alina (Cristina Flutur) returns to try to draw her out of a life of deep religious piety.

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.

Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in «The Conjuring 2,» as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

We've seen her giving life advice to Forrest Gump, putting Abraham Lincoln in his place, as a flying nun, Gidget, and Norma Rae.

«The Sisters of Charity» (6:29) gives nuns from the same order as the film's characters a chance to talk about their lives and the calling.

bride - to - be Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Picture Show to her Oscar - winning performance as a real - life nun in Dead Man Walking, Susan Sarandon has blazed a trail across the silver screen — and the TV screen, too.

Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a nun in the Catholic Society of the Holy Child Jesus during the 1960s and later wrote a tell - all book, Through the Narrow Gate (1982) that bemoaned the restrictive life.

She flees to the wilds of England's Lake District to nurse her wounds and live out life as a virtual nun.

Offered to the Church at the age of eight, Hildegard was entombed in a small room where she was expected to live out her days in silent submission as the handmaiden of a renowned but disturbed young nun, Jutta von Sponheim.

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.

I live with two other Buddhist nuns and our three dogs: two Peke - A-Poos, Oliver and Serena, and Janelle, a chow husky cross who comes to work with me every day and acts as the clinic nurse calming the patients.

It took me to ashrams and temples throughout India and the Far East where I lived for months on end, and it gave me the opportunity to become exposed to the Tibetan Buddhist traditions as I taught English to Tibetan Buddhist nuns living in exile in North India.

Büttner, to the extent that she could be said to explore identity at all, has done so through her work with Carmelite nuns and displays of native plant life, although the judges singled out her use of anachronistic techniques such as woodcutting as amongst the reasons for her nomination.

A priest at the Ann Arbor temple, Haju Sunim (aka Linda Murray), explained that Dumpster diving is actually a modern variant of an ancient tradition by which Buddhist «patched - robe monks» and nuns reclaimed clothing, sometimes from corpses, and would repair garments repeatedly to extend their life as much as possible.