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Originally Posted by Carpenter
I am sitting through a week long class and in this class is a nun who works with HIV positive patients.
I watch this woman pretty much all day from across the table. She wears her habit, her long flowing cotton robes and she has a very pecular countenance. One could say she is plainfaced, chaste, humble, non-assuming, yet at the same time, she wears all these things with a certain panache that communicates...I am a nun, I am plainface, chaste, humble and non-assuming having given my life to God...and you are not.
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Me thinks you are watching too much TV and are developing a warped mindset. In the first sentence you tell us she is working with HIV positive
patients which would clue me in that this woman is somebody uniquely special no matter what she is wearing.
Giving comfort and support to an HIV postive
patient is most likely a more difficult and emotionally draining situation than just dealing with a person who isn't sick at the time. It must be gut wrenching.
Consider that the habit she wears isn't to convey that she is better than anyone else but rather it identifies her with a group whose values and mission she embraces.
