Sentences with phrase «vows as a nun»

A girl is forced to take vows as a nun in Jacques Rivette's 1966 drama, based on the novel by Denis Diderot, which sees the new convert treated in radically different ways from three different mother superiors — each one more surprising than the last.

Ida (PG - 13 for mature themes, sexuality and smoking) Skeleton - out - of - the - closet drama, set in Poland in 1962, about an orphan (Agata Trzebuchowska) raised in a Catholic convent who learns that she was born Jewish just as she's set to take her vows as a nun.

«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.

As indeed was Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski's impeccably photographed black - and - white Polish drama in which a young woman who's about to take her vows as a nun goes to the city to visit her decadent aunt and makes an astonishing discovery about her past.

Not exact matches

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

and then they are excommunicated and the fight is over... this is a hopeless fight especially when religion is involved... they either fight for rights and lose it all (and essentially go to hell) or give in and listen to their religious leaders... I do not believe in what they do and could care less really but they are in a no win situation and they as nuns should not be worried about birth control or anything of the such... they took the vows..

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.

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.