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PennyQuilts
09-14-2009, 02:52 PM
I am not Catholic but I should know this - but don't. I was driving by a carload of nuns in their habits, today, and one of them was wearing a white wimple. What is the significance of the white wimple?

I love seeing nuns wearing their habits. Brings back happy memories of the nuns at my highschool who I just loved.

kevinpate
09-14-2009, 03:27 PM
I think the wimple is related to belonging to certain orders. I'll not get to fibbing and pretend I know which orders.

CCOKC
09-14-2009, 05:36 PM
That is correct. There are too many orders of nuns to tell you exactly what order these particular women belong to. If you would like to read about nuns and the different orders here is a link to the nun page of the Catholic Encyclopedia. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nuns (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11164a.htm)

PennyQuilts
09-14-2009, 05:53 PM
Thanks, CCokc!

DaveSkater
09-15-2009, 03:00 PM
Nuns are great! My children attended a catholic elementary run by nuns. Awesome group of ladies.

MadMonk
09-15-2009, 10:54 PM
Thanks for the education. I never knew what those were called (never really thought about it I guess).

And wimple is such a funny word. Wimple, wimple, wimple...I'm going to be amused for hours now. :kicking:

PennyQuilts
09-16-2009, 03:53 AM
And wimple is such a funny word. Wimple, wimple, wimple...I'm going to be amused for hours now. :kicking:

I had exactly the same reaction, sad to admit. Of course, I knew they were called wimples but it is such a great word that it always brings a smile, anyway.

OKCTalker
09-16-2009, 01:33 PM
NPR ran a story yesterday (Tuesday 9/15/2009) about a "running nun" who ran a half-marathon to raise money to pay off her student loans so she can pursue her ambitions of becoming a nun (with no income, she'll be unable to repay the loans). She sounded young, energetic and very sweet, and she just FLOORED me when she mentioned the prospect of running in a "technical habit," meaning one that would wick sweat while she ran. It was a great visual that had me grinning the rest of the day. She sounds like a great person, one who will do great serving the church. God bless her.

sacolton
09-16-2009, 03:21 PM
Is it fun to be a nun?

buckt
09-17-2009, 07:57 PM
Might be fun to be a nun on the run....

sacolton
09-17-2009, 08:23 PM
Fun to be a nun on the run with a gun?

Martin
09-17-2009, 08:34 PM
fun to be a nun on the run with a gun in the sun?

-M

PennyQuilts
09-18-2009, 03:40 AM
So I get up this morning, log on, see the MMM has posted on this thread and think to myself, GREAT - MMM knows about stuff like this. He'll educate us about nuns.

Instead, I get poetry.

Sigh.

kevinpate
09-18-2009, 07:01 AM
could be worse, coulda been a nun pun instead

Martin
09-18-2009, 07:33 AM
instead, i get poetry.

sorry to disappoint. all the rhyming gave me a chuckle, so i added to it.

really, the thread was done in one... different orders have different manners of dress. the variations are significant in determining what order the individual belongs to. it's the same with monks.

the whole concept is similar to what is done in academic tradition to distinguish which college within a university that an individual belongs to.

-M

PennyQuilts
09-18-2009, 08:46 AM
could be worse, coulda been a nun pun instead

I may pee myself.

DaveSkater
09-18-2009, 09:50 AM
Let me get this right, this thread turned into a :

Nun pun about one on the run with a gun in the sun? How fun!

kevinpate
09-18-2009, 10:12 AM
it made me smile, even if I'll never have whimples near my dimples.

MadMonk
09-18-2009, 10:28 AM
Let me get this right, this thread turned into a :

Nun pun about one on the run with a gun in the sun? How fun!
I'm stunned.

buckt
09-19-2009, 05:34 PM
It's no pun about the nun on a run in the sun with a gun. No fun unless her hair was in a bun -if so she's done.

PennyQuilts
09-19-2009, 05:36 PM
A nun with a bun on the run in the sun with a gun wouldn't have fun because she'd be shunned.

kevinpate
09-19-2009, 05:59 PM
I heard nuns wearing buns was the new black, that it was now just another habit

buckt
09-19-2009, 07:19 PM
Here's another one about the nun who was on the run in the sun wearing her bun with a gun...she won.

PennyQuilts
09-20-2009, 06:38 AM
And her wimple hid a pimple but couldn't hide her dimple as she sauntered to the temple to meet William Dalrymple.

Thank my husband for the last in the sentence. I've mentioned he is a bit odd. Brilliant, but odd.

kevinpate
09-20-2009, 10:12 AM
I wanna meet him, and you, when y'all come back. Whut can I say. I likes both odd folks and opinionated folks.

PennyQuilts
09-20-2009, 10:16 AM
I wanna meet him, and you, when y'all come back. Whut can I say. I likes both odd folks and opinionated folks.

He is both. You'd like him because he is even more than that!