postulant

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• In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
• If satisfied, the officiating abbot admits the postulant.
• Four of the postulants have had marriages that ended in annulment; two never married. Women of God
• The priest shall be known as a Postulant until his reception into the Fraternity.
• Entrance into these communities became contingent on wealth as nunneries demanded that postulants provide dowries. Christianity Today
• The discussion concerns postulants and candidates for holy orders, more particularly those who aspire to ordained ministry as vocational or permanent deacons.
• The attractionThat desire is what drew first-year postulant Sister Zandra Man into the order. Younger Catholic Women Get into the Habit
• In Tibet, law of the monastery proclaims that postulant monks shall seek admission only in their respective monastic sections. Contemporary Scholars - The 100th Ganden Tripa (Ganden Throneholder)
• She is aided by mistress of novices and wrestling coach Sister Acacius (Julie Halston), currently besieged by a wide-eyed postulant with healing powers (Amy Rutberg), appropriately named Agnes, and a sinister new arrival Sister Walburga (Alison Fraser), a cartoon-evil German from the "mother house in Berlin. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Divine Sister, The Screwtape Letters, Freckleface Strawberry
• To become a Theravadin monk a postulant shaves his head and beard and adopts the yellow robes of the monk.