Re: what are you reading?

Somehow I couldn't see myself lasting ten minutes in a convent.  It's an amusing mental picture however.

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From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:18:04 -0500

>> and even seeing an inkling of
>> humanity in some.
>
>Which ones did you have?  I had Dominicans first, then Sisters of
>Providence.  Most were wonderful caring, lovely people and good teachers.
>Not all, but by far I am glad I had nuns for teachers.....except for that
>humility thing.
>
>Kitty
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "F M Ferrari" <fm4re@swbell.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 8:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you reading?
>
>
>> Oh Daryl you forgot nuns! Always seemed like THE career for some of the
>> smarter girls in Catholic school who didn't seem like the marrying type
>> (me included). Oh how I would pray that God would forgive me for hoping
>> that I would never get "THE CALL" to be a nun! You must know the setting
>> when I grew up: born in 1955 to a typical, even sterotypical
>> Italian-American family, bilinqual, loud, and dysfunctional in its own
>> cultural niche! So to have a son or daughter "in service" in the church
>> (ooops, Church), was a family's discounted ticket to heaven!
>>
>>
>> But I do remember one detail about the nuns growing up and it's garden
>> related: It always seemed that the only times nuns were permitted to
>> roam around the alter was to set out the flowers. I do remember watching
>> them arrange the flowers with such care and even seeing an inkling of
>> humanity in some.
>>
>>
>> Fran, OKC
>>
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