Distinctive set of garments worn by members of a religious order
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A religious habit is a distinctive set of religious clothing worn by members of a religious order. Traditionally some plain garb recognizable as a religious habit has also been worn by those leading the religious eremitic and anchoritic life, although in their case without conformity to a particular uniform style.
Uniformity and distinctiveness by order often evolved and changed over time. Interpretation of terms for clothes in religious rules could change over centuries. Furthermore, every time new communities gained importance in a cultural area the need for visual separation increased for new as well as old communities. Thus, modern habits are rooted in historic forms, but do not necessarily resemble them in cut, colour, material, detail or use.
In Christian monastic orders of the Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Churches, the habit often consists of a tunic covered by a scapular and cowl, with a hood for monks or friars and a veil for nuns; in apostolic orders it may be a distinctive form of cassock for men, or a distinctive habit and veil for women. Catholic Canon Law requires only that the garb of their members be in some way identifiable so that the person may serve as a witness of the Evangelical counsels.
In many orders, the conclusion of postulancy and the beginning of the novitiate is marked by a ceremony, in which the new novice is accepted as a novice and then clothed in the community's habit by the superior. In some cases the novice's habit will be somewhat different from the customary habit: for instance, in certain orders of women that use the veil, it is common for novices to wear a white veil while professed members wear black, or if the order generally wears white, the novice wears a grey veil. Among some Franciscan communities of men, novices wear a sort of overshirt over their tunic; Carthusian novices wear a black cloak over their white habit.
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a faith group. It includes clerical clothing such as cassocks, and religioushabit, robes, and other vestments. Accessories include hats, wedding rings...
direction, pastoral counselling, religious education and sacramental ministry." The friars wear a grey religioushabit with a hood, a cord, and sandals...
was founded in the Iberian Peninsula around the 14th century. Their religioushabit is a white tunic with a brown, hooded scapular and a brown mantle....
common recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, and no religioushabit. In 1609 she established a religious community at Saint-Omer and opened schools for girls...
of religious congregations. Profession for a long time was made by clothing with the religioushabit: the aspirant could personally put on the habit or...
enthronement. Investiture indicates in religious orders the usually ceremonial handing over of the religioushabit to a new novice. The investiture usually...
the Catholic Church, who wear a religioushabit and who live a life of brothers or sisters in common. Catholic religious orders and congregations are their...
a cope – forms of cloak – as liturgical vestments or as part of a religioushabit. The word cloak comes from Old North French cloque (Old French cloche...
received into spiritual fellowship, and later clothed in death in some religioushabit. So too the Templars had a whole system whereby layfolk could partake...
use continued solely in monasteries, as part of a nun's religioushabit. As women's religious orders began to adopt contemporary attire, it has largely...
sometimes called the Black Monks, in reference to the colour of their religioushabits, in contrast to other Benedictine orders such as the Olivetans, who...
over the shoulders with strips of cloth. It forms part of the habit of some religious orders including the Carmelites. The first Carmelite hermits who...
monks and nuns follow a similar ascetic discipline, and even their religioushabit is the same (though nuns wear an extra veil, called the apostolnik)...
Catholic religious order of the Latin Church founded at the end of the 11th century. They wore a black religioushabit marked with a blue tau. This habit became...
the film is said to be a Carmelite one by Sister Mary Patrick, their religioushabit is similar in appearance to that of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the...
Mother Cecilia, discovered that their foundress' remains, including her religioushabit, were almost perfectly intact. Jack Klein, owner of Hixson-Klein Funeral...
in France as "the Grey Sisters" from the color of their traditional religioushabit, which was originally grey, then bluish grey. The 1996 publication...
contemplative orders. On 29 July 1866, with 42 other candidates, she took the religioushabit of a postulant and joined the Sisters of Charity at their motherhouse...
work spread to Canada and Haiti. Most Felician sisters maintain the religioushabit of their foundress, Blessed Mary Angela Truszkowska, consisting of...
diocesan religious institute. The community was founded by Sr. Mary Clare Roufs, a graduate of University of St. Thomas. Sisters wear a religioushabit and...
(minori). Francis adopted the simple tunic worn by peasants as the religioushabit for his order, and had others who wished to join him do the same. Those...
society is called the Order of the Coif. The traditional religioushabit of Catholic nuns and Religious Sisters includes a coif as a headpiece, along with the...
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