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.

I think the wimple is related to belonging to certain orders. I'll not get to fibbing and pretend I know which orders.

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)

Thanks, CCokc!

Nuns are great! My children attended a catholic elementary run by nuns. Awesome group of ladies.

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:

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.

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.

Is it fun to be a nun?

Might be fun to be a nun on the run....

Fun to be a nun on the run with a gun?

fun to be a nun on the run with a gun in the sun?

-M

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.

could be worse, coulda been a nun pun instead

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

could be worse, coulda been a nun pun instead

I may pee myself.

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!

it made me smile, even if I'll never have whimples near my dimples.

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.

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.

A nun with a bun on the run in the sun with a gun wouldn't have fun because she'd be shunned.

I heard nuns wearing buns was the new black, that it was now just another habit

Here's another one about the nun who was on the run in the sun wearing her bun with a gun...she won.

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.

I wanna meet him, and you, when y'all come back. Whut can I say. I likes both odd folks and opinionated folks.

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!