professed nun

The community today numbers 28 professed nuns and two postulants.

At this monastery, she joined two of her aunts who were already professed nuns in the community.

The monastery has about ten professed nuns, and several candidates in various stages of formation.

All three of the Healy daughters were professed nuns, though Martha left religious life in 1863.

She assumed the religious name of Maria Celeste when she became a professed nun.

This delivery of a ring to professed nuns is also mentioned by several medieval Pontificals, from the twelfth century onwards.

Benedictines have traditionally used the form of address "Dom" for men and "Dame" for solemnly professed nuns.

A Dell sounas, calling to prayer the postulants ano the novices and the seventy-four professed nuns who make their home in the mother house.

Either a husband was to be forthwith sought out, or she was to enter the convent with the object of taking the veil as a professed nun.

They move through Claire's years as postulant, novice and professed nun in a monastic teaching order, past her decision to leave the convent in the late 1960's.

Once she had advanced from postulant and novice to professed nun, she enrolled in St Anne's College, Oxford, to study English.

When she later becomes a professed nun, she may decide for herself whether she wishes to continue using the name she chose at the beginning of her novitiate.

Castas never had access to religious life, and their presence in the convents as maids or even slaves made evident the social chasm between them and the professed nuns.

His daughters Ángeles, Elisa, and Elvira from his second marriage, along with Crescencia from his third marriage, became professed nuns in the Catholic Church.

An overall decline in Catholic vocations has left the community with just 22 professed nuns and two novices, who between them are responsible for the maintenance and overheads of a 20- acre site.

He's too late, the Mother Superior informs him, "Teresa is now the Bride of Christ," meaning that she has taken her final vows and is now a fully professed nun.

Since all professed nuns were required to be literate, and since some of them were highly educated women, nunneries were the only places where a female culture can be detected and studied.

On 21 May 2009 the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, numbering 28 professed nuns and two postulants, re-established themselves in a purpose-built convent designed to the highest environmental standards in the neighbourhood of Wass.

The church building was given to the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix as a convent and retreat house following their expulsion from France in 1910, and the old rectory was turned into a convent inhabited in 1914 by thirteen professed nuns, three lay sisters and a postulant.

It was one thing for professed nuns like the Sisters of Saint Brigid to wear religious garb to such an important court function; it was embarrassing when ones mother, who had taken no vows as yet, retained her austere adopted garb as a personal statement of protest against her sons way of life.