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Bookmark or Share- Top 12 Orders of Catholic Nuns and Sisters - S.D. Cason Catholic GalleryThis is a list of my favorite 12 orders of Catholic nuns and sisters in no particular order. This list includes their history, and images of their habits.
- Nuns (History, Origin, Vows, Orders + More Information)Who are nuns. Nuns are women who have taken solemn vows to commit their lives to the service of God, religious contemplation, and prayer. They are commonly associated with the Roman Catholic Church, but they are also found in other religions like Hinduism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
- Nuns | Catholic Answers EncyclopediaThe institution of nuns and sisters, who devote themselves in various religious orders to the practice of a life of perfection, dates from the first ages of the Church, and women may claim with a certain pride that they were the first to embrace the religious state for its own sake, without regard to missionary work and ecclesiastical functions ...
- Nun - WikipediaIn the Catholic tradition, there are many religious institutes of nuns and sisters (the female equivalent of male monks or friars), each with its own charism or special character. Traditionally, nuns are members of enclosed religious orders and take solemn religious vows , while sisters do not live in the papal enclosure and formerly took vows ...
- What is the Difference Between a Nun and a Sister ... - Simply CatholicBoth nuns and sisters are women religious and constitute a most beautiful way of serving Jesus Christ and all souls in the Church. A nun takes solemn and public perpetual vows of chastity, poverty and obedience (evangelical counsels), and typically spends her life in prayer and work and silence in a cloistered convent.
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