It struck him as slightly ludicrous that a few young novices and postulants should represent the venerable choir-monks whom one pictured at such a ceremony from one's reading of the Rule of St. Benedict.
The train left the station, and the three ex-novices settled themselves to face the world.
He began to feel the need of a Mother House, having now more than enough candidates for the Order of Saint George, where the novices could be suitably trained to meet the stress of active mission work.
Novices under the influence of stage fright will say and do the most extraordinary things.
Your handwriting is very handsome, and I see with pleasure that several of the novices write very well.
Our good mistress of the novices goes quietly to her ends; she asks me to send her a "Conversation;" if she saw me, she would not ask it.
Perou, mistress of the novices at twenty years of age, afterwards elected many times as Superior; Mme.
On our national festival of St. Andrew I had the pleasure of admitting two novices to profession--the first ceremony of the kind since 1908.
I spent November 1 and 2 at Ampleforth: on All Saints' Day I saw the college football team give a handsome drubbing to a visiting school--a feat to be proud of, as they were themselves quite novices at the Rugby game.
Two or three of the older members of the community, who had been my fellow-novices in those far-off days, were still in residence there; and from them and all I received a warm welcome and many kind congratulations.
The College of the Novicesfrom the Convent of Durham is the old part of Trinity.
Gloucester Hall was the house founded in 1283 for those of the novices who came from Gloucester Abbey.
He is as eloquent in giving lessons to novices as his compeers in our own prisons, and he carefully instructs his hopeful pupils in the best ways of avenging their wrongs upon society.
We novices made the holy hour together--that midnight hour of union with the Saviour's agony in the garden.
We knelt around, and the novices sang out joyfully a Christmas carol, the chorus of which was "Jesus est ne!
After our nocturnal devotions, we novices returned to the novitiate, where the Yule log was blazing.
Unless novices joined them within a certain number of years, they were to return to Ireland.
Ursule, despairing of the re-establishment of the Poor Clares, joined the Ursulines, and was for a long time mistress of novicesat the priory.
Frank and his chums were practically novices in the "movies" line.
It was overwhelming to the young man to hear the melodious tumult of praise, and to remember that in less than a week he would be standing there among the novices and adding his voice.
He often said to me: "The Sisters are as yet but novices in piety, they must be left to grow a little stronger; have patience, for we shall be doing quite enough if the little we do is what pleases our divine Master.
You may judge from this how skilful was this master of novices in hewing, hammering, and cutting the stones he was endeavouring to fit for the spiritual edifice of the Order.
The novices wear the same habit, but all in white.
In the cloister accordingly they kept their books; and there they wrote and studied, or conducted the schooling of the novices and choir-boys, in winter and in summer alike.
He, and I who write these things, were novices together.
Our patriot deputies, in great part, were aware of their errors; the novices were not, they were ready to begin all over again.
It consists of novices arriving from the provinces and bringing with them the principles and prejudices of the newspaper.
After him came the inferior persons of the convent; the novices in their albs or white dresses, and the lay brethren distinguished by their beards, which were seldom worn by the Fathers.
It is meet and beseeming that novices should undergo fasts and vigils; for some part of every community must fast, and young stomachs may best endure it.
The novices and lay brothers, ignorant of the peril, had retired to rest; but we, who knew the portentous state of things around us, could not have slept had we retired.
Many of the old hands, of course, kept their wits and their pluck, but the novices and the disaffected did not.
How still it was, how faint the autumnal sunlight stealing in through the sainted windows, how motionless the dark company of nuns seated on one side of the nave, how rigid the white rows of novices on the other!
The canons and novices were ranged on one side, the guides and muleteers formed a back-ground to the whole, while the fine form of Sigismund stood, stern and motionless as a statue, on the steps of the altar which was opposite to the females.
These young fellows are like novices with a gun: the bird must be in a position or they can't shoot it--with their pop-guns.
The robes and cloaks received by novices and ordained priests were worth a hundred thousand.
It was affecting to see her sitting among the novices whom I taught, carefully spelling out the words, and repeating the declensions and conjugations.
Some of these novices come full of high aspirations for a religious life.
How fitly you have urged (Eze 44) to insinuate that unbaptized believers are like the uncircumcised in heart and flesh, I leave it to all gospel-novices to consider.
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