He could not reject a postulant for salvation; it was impossible.
I have brought you our new musical postulant to look at.
I only came here in the hope--" "And I accepted you as a postulant in the hope that you would persevere.
Her postulancy has been unduly prolonged; it is nearly a year since she returned from Rome, and she was a postulant for six months before that.
But the latest postulant suggested that perhaps the buttons off her jacket would do, they were just the thing,' and the legs of the beast were most natural and life-like; it had even a tail.
Evelyn, dear, this question has been running in my mind some time back--is it well for you to remain a postulant any longer?
The short time that it was necessary to remain as a postulant had expired, and in a formal service in the chapel she was received as a probationer, and assumed the dress of the order.
Quite often during mypostulant period, while I was learning these Latin prayers, I would have to do sewing.
On the contrary, this afforded the young postulant many an occasion for repressing her strong natural affections.
When I was a postulant our Mistress used to send me every afternoon at half-past four to weed the garden.
Whilst I was a postulant I liked to have nice things to use and to find everything needful ready to hand.
The postulant gave all he had to the poor, took the habit of a Friar Minor, and lived holily; preserving always the same affable and polite manners, with which he received the guests of the convents in which he resided.
These ideas were very pleasing to the Patriarch, and the postulantwas received.
The postulant went away and gave all he had to his parents whom he loved very much, without giving any to the poor.
After a slender meal, and a spiritual conference, Francis set out with his new postulantfor Assisi, to procure what was requisite for clothing.
They assented on this condition, which the postulantwillingly agreed to, protesting that he was prepared to do anything that was required of him.
But Brother Walter was in a state of such excitement over his near promotion to postulant that it was not considered safe to entrust him with the pony.
And the Reverend Father has promised me that I shall be clothed as a postulant on August 10th when Brother Lawrence is to be clothed as a novice.
Striving against her agitation the postulant walked up the nave into the choir, and knelt on the left before a large taper, her mother and sister on either side as bridesmaids.
Monseigneur Richard was sitting, mitre on head, interrogating the postulant who had returned to her place, and was kneeling before him behind the grating.
And the postulant murmured,-- "A templo sacro tuo quod est in Jerusalem.
On the eve of the day that the postulant was to take the habit, she was presented to the abbess of Bourbourg by the governor of the town.
The postulant had to swear on the holy Gospels that she had been unchaste, and no one believed her oath; she was examined, and if her oath were false, she was declared unworthy to be received.
He spoke to the postulant alone, praising the august and humble life of the cloister.
A Postulant having been duly received may afterwards be recommended by the Standing Committee of the Diocese, to the Bishop for admission as a Candidate for Holy Orders.
The postulant then rose; and being fully equipped, and girded with the sword, he became, for all purposes, a member of the order of knighthood.
When the distinction was applied for, the King commissioned some ancient Knight of the Forensic Order to admit the postulant into it.
The eldest postulant then, led forward by the Lady Abbess, after further questions from the Bishop, pronounced her vows, while he held upraised the holy sacrament, and the organ sent forth its most solemn tones.
The postulant fetched me, as he had promised, and he led me through a labyrinth of passages to the church.
I was making an effort to acquire the virtue of resignation, when the postulant spoilt the mood by speaking again of beer.
I had not been at the table long, when this postulant glided out of the room, saying: 'I will see if there is a way of getting another bottle of beer.
Not a word did these Trappists say, but they carried on with the postulant a conversation in dumb show as to what my requirements would be on the morrow.
The postulant had very soon finished, and having brushed the crumbs off his part of the bare board with his hand, he disappeared, to see what he could find for me in the kitchen.
I now called to mind that the postulant had told me over-night that a certain father would show me round the monastery after prime.
I returned to the monastery, and found the postulant quite anxious to have done with me, and to put me into the bishop's room.
We clinked glasses, and talked with greater freedom, although the postulant still spoke under his breath--it was a habit that he had fallen into.
You may be as zealous and diligent in good works while a postulant as you possibly could be as a white-vailed novice or a black-vailed nun.
No one in the congregation could tell; but many surmised that she must be some young postulant of St. Rosalie, just beginning, or about to begin, her novitiate.
Zoe became a postulant in the house of the Sisters at Chatillon, in the beginning of the year 1830.
Jephthah regarded his postulant daughter-in-law from under lowered, bushy brows.
There followed the Renunciation, primitive enough in form, but the postulant solemnly renounced, not Satan and his works and pomp, but the harlot church of the persecutors, whose prayers were more deadly than desirable.
The next episode of the rite exactly reproduces the Roman confiteor as it stood in the 2nd century; "the postulant says: 'Parcite nobis.
Asked if he will fulfil each of these, the postulant answers: "I have this will and determination.
