tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post4582216175017798448..comments2024-03-05T14:07:28.062-08:00Comments on Ask Sister Mary Martha: CamouflageSister Mary Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00580244097177195453noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-58373163238319571502007-10-25T20:44:00.000-07:002007-10-25T20:44:00.000-07:00Great story!Great story!Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15984305420691237277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-89779059554809445982007-10-25T09:22:00.000-07:002007-10-25T09:22:00.000-07:00Sister...? It has been a few days since you've po...Sister...? It has been a few days since you've posted...Is everything ok?Kevin - "pax tecum"https://www.blogger.com/profile/10180045069593668422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-56973241372732011802007-10-24T16:23:00.000-07:002007-10-24T16:23:00.000-07:00I'd like to know the color to order thing too. I t...I'd like to know the color to order thing too. I think the teaching sisters in Lincoln wear blue. Some are in gray, why?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-41771961056823214502007-10-24T11:45:00.000-07:002007-10-24T11:45:00.000-07:00Wow, Anonymous! Thanks for the link. I guess it'...Wow, Anonymous! Thanks for the link. I guess it's true what my mom says about if you live long enough, you'll see just about everything. Pretty color pink, too. <BR/><BR/>I wonder how orders decide what color their habits will be.ann nonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426622861196955113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-59514213732264013532007-10-24T10:08:00.000-07:002007-10-24T10:08:00.000-07:00I was once mistaken for a nun, as was my mother. B...I was once mistaken for a nun, as was my mother. But I've never flirted with a priest, so MissJean is one way up on me... ;-)Kasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12252276821520357094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-32301618087651777672007-10-24T08:37:00.000-07:002007-10-24T08:37:00.000-07:00They wear pink habits and are cloistered. I believ...They wear pink habits and are cloistered. I believe they are also a silent order. They have a chapel of perpetual prayer. Regular people can enter the chapel through the public entrance. A wall of concrete blocks, with some blocks misspaced for small "windows", seperate the public from the praying nun. The public part of the chapel has hours it is open for silent prayer.I'm not living there anymore and things could have changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-25419842104228722422007-10-24T08:36:00.000-07:002007-10-24T08:36:00.000-07:00anon - thanks for the link to the Pink Sisters. T...anon - thanks for the link to the Pink Sisters. They are just beautiful!!Adriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562944653624224107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-17439452832601226352007-10-24T08:25:00.000-07:002007-10-24T08:25:00.000-07:00Our Pink Sisters are very well known here. To part...Our Pink Sisters are very well known here. To participate with these brides of Christ at Christmas Mass in just beautiful.<BR/><BR/>http://www.mountgraceconvent.org/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-75601708155685252222007-10-23T14:07:00.000-07:002007-10-23T14:07:00.000-07:00Anonymous,PINK Sisters??? Yikes!Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>PINK Sisters??? Yikes!ann nonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426622861196955113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-12627827088410676672007-10-23T12:58:00.000-07:002007-10-23T12:58:00.000-07:00We were living in Seward NE (population about 7000...We were living in Seward NE (population about 7000) and the man at the car wash was just visiting away. He was in clothes he had left over from the 70's and this was the 90's. It was several minutes before I recognized our priest!!!!<BR/>Lincoln has nuns in colors, pink sisters and blue sisters and I think gray sisters. Different orders wearing different colors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-6271628334847736342007-10-23T12:16:00.000-07:002007-10-23T12:16:00.000-07:00Sister, I know what you mean about "neat as a pin....Sister, I know what you mean about "neat as a pin." I can nearly always recognize nuns out of their habits. Priests are more difficult though, for some reason. It drove me crazy that the priest-professors at my alma mater went around dressed just like the other professors. Sometimes I didn't know they were priests until I saw them processing into the chapel to say daily Mass.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03893341464969743583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-59850837547922155322007-10-23T09:34:00.000-07:002007-10-23T09:34:00.000-07:00I'll let Sister answer the question about her orde...I'll let Sister answer the question about her order going plainclothes, but the Dominican Sisters in our area are <I>always</I> in their habits*. Soccer field, grocery store, driving 'round town. I'm sure they're fine when it's cool outside, but it gets pretty hot down here in the summer. Frankly, I don't think I'd recognize any of them un-habited, if you know what I mean.<BR/><BR/><BR/>* - Except, they confess to the inquiring children, at night, when they are allowed PJs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-7865371096182246152007-10-23T09:11:00.000-07:002007-10-23T09:11:00.000-07:00Personally, I feel about nuns without habits the s...Personally, I feel about nuns without habits the same way I do about teachers wearing miniskirts and priests without collars. (And I have to admit that I once flirted with a priest out of uniform; then he had the nerve to tell me as if it were MY fault.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-73862591435445162462007-10-22T18:19:00.000-07:002007-10-22T18:19:00.000-07:00Sister MM,How about going out as nuns? You know, t...Sister MM,<BR/>How about going out as nuns? You know, the old fashioned kind. The black and white, clicker, clunky shoes. The whole bit.<BR/>We already know how much you scare 4 year olds.<BR/><BR/>:DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-9432884715261901912007-10-22T16:56:00.000-07:002007-10-22T16:56:00.000-07:00Anonymous,I can't wait til Sister answers your que...Anonymous,<BR/>I can't wait til Sister answers your question. In the meantime, let me tell you when I was very little, one of the teaching nuns from my big sisters and brothers school took me and my just older than me brother on the ferris wheel at the May Fair carnival. She had on her habit, even riding a ferris wheel. It wasn't good. My brother is infamous for his weak stomach and even the ferris wheel will cause him to return his carnival treats. I guess it's hard to get that voluminous amount of black fabric out of the way when you're in tight quarters between a toddler and a kindergartener with a tummy full of hot dogs and funnel cake whose name is not Ralph but he did. Talk about mortification! Sister just laughed and when we got off, she poured some water on her lap and her hem, wiped off the tops of her clomp, clomp shoes and hopped back on with the next two kids just like it happens everyday. My mother was not so forgiving. We had to go home. When we got to the car, she made my brother take off his shoes, his pants and his shirt and she rolled them up in the rubber car mat and put it in the back of the station wagon. We rode home with the windows open and my brother in his underwear. What a magnanimous nun was she!ann nonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426622861196955113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-5081513069271714202007-10-22T16:46:00.000-07:002007-10-22T16:46:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.ann nonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426622861196955113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-59350290530429396472007-10-22T15:59:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:59:00.000-07:00Sister, this nun in plain clothes thing baffles me...Sister, this nun in plain clothes thing baffles me. Do you guys always wear habits, to grocery stores and baseball games and in your drivers license photos and stuff? As you said, there's no rule against it... but is it frowned upon to wear regular old clothes to these things? Just curious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-64958538113597995792007-10-22T15:46:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:46:00.000-07:00anonymous - I saw the same thing and had to go bac...anonymous - I saw the same thing and had to go back and read it again. Does that say something about us??Adriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562944653624224107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-58133744187263893742007-10-22T15:14:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:14:00.000-07:00Okay, so the first time I read "sewer" I saw sewer...Okay, so the first time I read "sewer" I saw sewer (the kind you flush into), not sew-er (a person who sews). Such has been my day. <BR/><BR/>SharonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-54702223155299753862007-10-22T15:10:00.000-07:002007-10-22T15:10:00.000-07:00At my Joann I asked a question of the lady in the ...At my Joann I asked a question of the lady in the green apron, and another woman came up and asked her a question while she was helping me. Apparently this was just way too much customer service for her to provide, so she said "What, do I look like I have 'INFORMATION' written on my forehead?" <BR/>I should have suggested that next time she duck. <BR/><BR/>I wonder how she'd react to a nun in a wheelchair? <BR/><BR/>p.s. thanks for the update!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-1644756984725984612007-10-22T13:47:00.000-07:002007-10-22T13:47:00.000-07:00When will I ever learn? I do know better than to ...When will I ever learn? I do know better than to drink anything while reading your posts.<BR/><BR/>Sister, this one was very funny! Thanks for the laughs. <BR/><BR/>Do you have a handicapped tag for your car? If so, pile Sr. Mary Fiacre in the car, drive into JoAnn's and park in the handicapped space. I find that people can become quite solicitous when confronted with an elderly person in a wheelchair. Sometimes I take two of them with me for special effects. Take her into the store and you will probably find at least one salesperson who will be ever so happy to help you. They're all trying to get into heaven, you know.<BR/><BR/>Did you not tell us last year you were banned from JoAnn's? If so, you'd better travel incognunto, just in case. Get to steppin', sister. You're burnin' daylight. Halloween's only nine days away.ann nonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06426622861196955113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30512717.post-12005433015534575242007-10-22T13:41:00.000-07:002007-10-22T13:41:00.000-07:00Dear Sister, I hate it when you guys hide in norm...Dear Sister,<BR/> I hate it when you guys hide in normal clothes. Over 20 years ago I owned a Salon in Sedona, AZ. One day these two "neat as pins" little old tourist ladies came in to get their hair done. <BR/><BR/> I was just combing one of them out when she admitted to me that she was a sister. Having gone to Catholic school all the way through high school when sisters still dressed like sisters, I was so unnerved I thought I was going to have a stroke.<BR/><BR/> I finally choked out "I spent most of my life trying to figure out if you guys even had hair and now I'm combing it -- this is like sleeping with a priest". <BR/><BR/>It was her turn to choke:) LOLAdriennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01562944653624224107noreply@blogger.com