Lizzie Borden Society Forum

:littleangel: :bigcrowd: Does anyone think that lizzie might have made a good nun? Or was she that religious?

Good Lord.... Do you know much about the lives of Nuns? They take vows of poverty and live simply, more concerned with the problems of others versus themselves.

I guess she wouldn't have made a very good nun. She liked the good life.

For starters, since she was not a Catholic, I have to give that one a big NO. Despite having the beautiful CATHEDRAL OF SAINT MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION across the street, Lizzie never got into eating fish on Friday. And like Ms Audrey states in reference to nuns, "They take vows of poverty and live simply, more concerned with the problems of others versus themselves." While Lizzie may have done some "good works" for her church, her focus was still...LIZZIE.


http://www.fallriverdiocese.org/glance. ... sCathedral


Tracy...

Thanks for the link, Tracy!
I was in the chapel last October, meditating.
The cathedral itself was locked - about noon on a weekday.
I peeked in a window, tho!

It's beautiful inside. I went in when my neice and I were in Fall River last year. When my mother and I went, my mother was in "where do I go to Mass ?" heaven...as a plethora of Catholic churches are sprinkled throughout Fall River.

http://www.fallriverdiocese.org/glance. ... ay=History


Tracy...

You're right her focus was always on her.She did like to have a good time and such. She wouldn't have made a good nun. And by the way, the episcopols have nuns too, so it's not just catholics. that have nun.

interesting...cause maybe im remembering wrong but a lot of the jurors seem to be congregationalist or methodist if religion is noted. I wonder how religious outlook affected this case. Maybe Catholicism was a poor man's religion in Fall River. But then that would mean a lot of Fall River was poor, if there were a number of Catholic churches spinkled throughout the area.

I don't know if catholism was the poor man's religon. It seems to me that most people in the east are catholics.

If there are nuns in the Episcopal church, that's news to me and I'm Episcopal. We call our pastor "Father", if we want to. And he/she is called a "priest" - or minister, or pastor. Episcopal ministers are allowed to marry. Some people in the church are missionaries by choice. The congregation has a huge say in the church, and does much of the work - Episcopal congregations are very participatory. We are very close to Roman Catholocism, but we encourage any baptized person to take Communion whether they are Episcopal or not. We recognize saints but do not pray to them. We have two "musts": To love God above all else. And to love your neighbor as yourself. There's a lot of freedom in the church, and there's not a lot of rules that you can't do this and can't do that. It suits me fine.

My boss is Episcopalian. She calls herself "Catholic Light"...LOL.


Tracy...

OK..I had never heard of Espiscopal nuns either...until now.

http://www.episcopalian.org/shn/


Tracy...

I also grew up Episcopalian, we had a Minister who
was married and we had fun Church picnics every
summer. No Nuns.

Thanks for the enlightenment, Tracy. Episcopal nuns -- who knew?

As a former Catholic who once called a Nun "Sister Blister", please point me in the direction of an Episcopal Nun. I sort of feel like getting into a fist fight.

Do E. Nuns wimples have martini shakers on them?