tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post468815434147416272..comments2024-02-28T04:48:59.561+08:00Comments on The Pinoy Catholic: FLIMSY EXCUSE FOR NOT WEARING THE RELIGIOUS HABITPedro Lorenzo Ruizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06817125203522413704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8918598045168602139.post-42397070998298634542009-08-20T20:01:15.331+08:002009-08-20T20:01:15.331+08:00"Explaining her congregation's decision, ..."Explaining her congregation's decision, Sister Noreen Htun, 62, said that wearing local dress helps nuns integrate better with people, and makes it easier for the nuns to "approach them and work with them."<br /><br />What a crock! I can't believe their still using that very tired argument.<br /> When I was a seminarian in the late '80's, I did a pastoral year in a parish in New Orleans and I always wore my cassock. There I taught school and I was always among the children at recess, playing with them and gernerally being present. I was told one day by the vocations director that I shouldn't wear my cassock anymore because the people can't relate to us if we don't wear civilian clothes( his very words!) Well, I obeyed and started wearing just a white shirt and black slacks and the first day at recess with the kids, most of them asked me why I wasn't wearing my cassock and said, "awww, we thought that your "robes" were so cool" and one kid said with a disappointed look,"now you look just like the other priest here" Their very words! Well, so much for not being able to integrate...Father Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09180400185835143681noreply@blogger.com