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Applicants’ Tea

July 26, 2018

From time to time the Sisters invited selected applicants to a private Tea. It was an opportunity for the applicants and Living Rules to socialize and discuss in more detail what Sisterhood means. Here we […]

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Application Form

July 26, 2018

Here, for the first time in public, is the Application Form to be considered as a novice with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (Toronto Order). The following two images show only the top and middle […]

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Glossary

July 24, 2018

Glossary from the Sisters’ Handbook, circa 1983 (To preserve spacing and layout of the original document, this is presented in a Table. It might not display well in some devices.) Antiphonal response     In liturgy, […]

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Whiteface

July 24, 2018

The nuns in virtually all the houses & missions in the USA, Germany and France use whiteface. In fact the Australian and British orders are the only ones that, to my knowledge, have a majority […]

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Flirt’s Vows

July 24, 2018

My Vows as a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence Taken in late 1983 and never renounced I vow to offer all my fellow sisters sisterly love, cooperation and understanding; I vow to forsake all appearance of […]

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The Noviciate Now and Then

July 23, 2018

Current members of the various orders of Perpetual Indulgence, as well as friends and potential members, may have noticed that the structure of the Toronto House, and the process of attaining Sisterhood, appeared much less […]