More nun dress-up stuff…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 18th, 2007
Cross-dressing…
The recent brouhaha over the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence brought to mind this website, Dressing Up As Nuns. Some people like to do this. Not a few people think it means they are wannabe nuns or religious, but I don’t think so. To be sure, unlike the blasphemous drag queens in San Francisco, most of these people really do esteem religious life.
Perhaps it makes them “feel” holy, maybe it helps them find a sense of discipline and order in their lives. Who knows? I knew a man in Boston who went around town dressed in a cassock and carried a brief case. He was nuts though. Eventually most of these trannies realize a habit or cassock doesn’t a nun (or priest) make.
October 19th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I visited that link you have, that is darn strange! I remember reading in the life of St. Catherine of Siena, she was a Dominican Tertiary and wore the full habit. There were centuries in the Church where “lay religious” wore habits. This is also the case with St. Rose of Lima and Blessed Margaret of Costello. I don’t have a desire to wear a habit, but I can tell you I’m MUCH less interested in being a tertiary or third order anything without one. If I were a widow or had never married, I believe I’d become a tertiary if they wore the habit. I’m definately NOT cut out for convent life but anything less than full habit seems disingenuous (for me that is) Well anyway, a grown woman playing dress up, as in your link is still darn strange!
October 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
terry,
That site was “freaky.” Last year I dressed up as a nun for Halloween. I wore the costume for my third grade catechism class, and while I was outside, people would come up to me and ask which order I was from. I thought they would recognize me, but they didn’t. When I told them I was not a nun–they did not believe me, and my husband even tried by saying, “she’s my wife.” They still thought I was a nun. Dressing up as a nun–I thought would be fun–but it became very uncomfortable–this year–no costume.