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...rs there are half again as many parishioners to priests and the number of nuns has reduced by over 50%. On top of this the clergy‘s population is ag... ...men and men have the vocation to serve in religious orders. The number of nuns in 1965 was 180,000, today it is less than 80,000 and their average ag... ...n I grew up two of our three priests were from the ‗old sod‘. Priests and nuns who worked for only their room and board must now be replaced by lay w... ...ection. It almost never means what it originally meant in the Germanic or Anglo-Saxon languages.. But it takes no imagination to use it and it makes...

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... neglect of their own children; by believing that God, and the Holy orders of Nuns and Priests of the sacred, most holy Catholic Church are looking ... ... three different families… from four different cultures: Black, Jewish, White-Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and Southern Baptist. What possible reason co... ... it? No. Why? Because their hardship is not voluntary. If the monks and nuns of the church lived voluntarily without any support or help from t... ...l friendship which existed during that century was the friendship between two Anglo-saxon races and cultures was ruined: Germany and England and Am...

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...far more wonderful than as above recounted. Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup... ...llences with almost the depth and delicacy of her own perceptions. All the Anglo-Saxon denizens of Rome, by this time, knew Hilda by sight. Unconsciou... ...r she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German. There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins, one would say, and a right English accent o... ...e ponderous remains of the temple of Mars Ultot, within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cote, in the war-god’s mansion. At only a... ...tesy made their homage far less obtrusive than that of Germans, French, or Anglo-Saxons might have been. It is not improbable that Miriam had planned ... ...ldiers stood about the portal, and gazed at the brown-haired, fair-cheeked Anglo-Saxon girl, with approving glances, but not indecorously. Hilda began...

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...far more wonderful than as above recounted. Thence, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup... ...llences with almost the depth and delicacy of her own perceptions. All the Anglo-Saxon denizens of Rome, by this time, knew Hilda by sight. Unconsciou... ...r she is a countrywoman of ours, or an Englishwoman, or a German. There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins, one would say, and a right English accent o... ...e ponderous remains of the temple of Mars Ultot, within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cote, in the war-god’s mansion. At only a...

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...ed in remembrance of Saint Julius the Mar tyr, and held a convent of holy nuns for the fairer service of God. The second church was dedicate to Saint... ... the queen was crowned in her chamber, and brought to that convent of holy nuns for the conclusion of the rite. The press was so great that the queen ... ...her thought. The queen fled to Caerleon. There she entered in a convent of nuns, and took the veil. All her life’s days were hidden in this ab 137 W...

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... and wed us one of these days,’ returned Jean, ‘unless we vow ourselves as nuns, and I have no mind for that.’ ‘Nor would a convent always guard us,’ ... ...all nave of the little chapel, beyond which a screen shut off the choir of nuns. After this the ladies were received into the refectory to break their... ...ir. It was a surprise to be conducted, not to the refectory, where all the nuns took their meal together, but to a small room opening into the cloiste... ...en’s was so much influenced by the wealth and display of the city that the nuns, many of whom were these great merchants’ daughters, would have been s... ...s of Scotland. There was great commotion. Mother Margaret summoned all her nuns and drew them up in state, and Sister Mabel, who carried the tidings t... ...ns, in a crooked and crabbed calligraphy and language much more resembling Anglo-Saxon than modern English, a letter to the most high and mighty, the ...

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...f the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon will most promptly direct his steps, and the only one I have sp... ...ther introduced into an extraordinarily tidy little parlor, where two good nuns sit at work. One of these came out with me, and showed me over the pla... ...ll more architectural air. The appearance of such a port as this makes the Anglo-Saxon tourist blush for the sordid water-fronts of Liverpool and New ... ...r the uneven ground. The only important feature is a convent of cloistered nuns, who have a large garden (al- ways within the walls) behind their hous... ... or down at simply, from the battlements of the citadel. One or two of the nuns were passing in and out of the house; they wore gray robes, with a bri... ...ing at the station,—was the one hour of the day (that of the dinner of the nuns; the picture is in their refectory) dur- ing which the treasure could ...

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... besides the present tense am, etc., there was also this form be, from the Anglo-Saxon beon. The 2d person singular was beest. The 1st and 3d person p... ... has “limb.” 191. Inch-Cailliach. Scott says: “Inch-Cailliach, the Isle of Nuns, or of Old Women, is a most beautiful island at the lower extremity of... ... necessary attendant. Her duty was tumbling and dancing; and therefore the Anglo-Saxon version of Saint Mark’s Gos- pel states Herodias to have vaulte...

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...larte, above Ploumanac’h; from Quimper, an embroidered gown, worked by the nuns of the Assump- tion; from Rennes, a silver rose that opened and showed... ...he illustrious Doctor Lombard?” “No,” returned Wyant, with the instinctive Anglo-Saxon dis- trust of foreign advances. Then, fearing to appear rude, h...

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...t us ‘Fless,’ we should have had none of his nuts, and never a sight of his house. His distaste for the French I can partly understand, but not at all... ...ery deaf; ‘Merci’ is her only word of French; and I do not know that she seemed clever. An exquisite, kind refinement, with a shade of quietism, gathe... ... Paaaeua, highly delighted with this new appearance of his family, played the master of ceremonies. The church had been taken, with its jolly architec... ...ent, and were our only visitors. The circle of the tapu held at arm’s-length the inhabitants of the 221 Robert Louis Stevenson village. As for ‘my pa...

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...e tried to set them down, Aristocracy and People, men and women, Latin and Anglo-Saxon, bandit and politician, with as cool a hand as was possible in ... ...l at conven- tions. My reasons were not moral but artistic. Had he been an Anglo-Saxon he would have tried to get into local politics. But Nostromo do... ... is part of the truth of things which hurts the—what do you call them?—the Anglo-Saxon’s susceptibili- ties, and at the present moment I don’t feel as... ...expected 408 Nostromo of her. But Dona Antonia is not the stuff they make nuns of. Bishop Corbelan, her uncle, lives with her in the Corbelan town ho... ... apparently too large for their discretion, and amongst them a few, mostly Anglo-Saxon, skilled in the art of, as the saying is, “taking a rise” out o...

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...d friend of her aunt, and Genevieve had often been there, and knew all the nuns. Albinia was startled by this project. ‘My dear, I had much rather sen... ...lustered on the roof—a black veil beside the coachman, on the box—eighteen nuns alight, and the poor old infirm ab- 238 Yo n g e bess is lifted out. ... ...amour to continue instead of amitie, and carried home conversation for the nuns for the rest of their lives. That trousseau was Sophy’s special charge... ... she was received in Ireland?’ ‘The whole clan adore her! Ulick, with, his Anglo-Saxon truthfulness, got into serious scrapes for endeavouring to disa...

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...ecame a priest, founded at Jerusalem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotisti... ...verence— between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruct... ...n a basis of veracity. The complete decay of the practice of confession in Anglo-Saxon communi- ties is a little hard to account for. Reaction against...

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...tant manner of her mother, who had n’t been a bit mythological. Nymphs and nuns were certainly separate types, but Mr. Verver, when he really amused h...