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Because they want to consecrate their lives to God.
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Why do people become nuns?
There are quite a few reasons why someone would become a nun. Most people become nuns to fulfill a spiritual enlightenment.
Do nuns go through Holy Order?
Nuns do not go through Holy Orders. They take certain vows to become nuns.
Why can't Jews become nuns?
Because you have to be either a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian to become a nun. The Jewish religion doesn't have religious orders (such as nuns and monks).
What were the boys and girls training to become nuns called?
Girls who were training to be nuns would be postulants when they start, and then novices. The Catholic Orders do not allow boys to be nuns or sisters.
What is a school where women are taught to be nuns?
Women are taught in a special nuns' convent where they are trained to become and live like a nun.
Can nuns get pregnant?
Most nuns could indeed become pregnant if they were to have sex. For the most part it's a hypothetical question, since the majority of nuns refrain from engaging in sexual activity.
What age could you become a nun?
Any age became nuns. Some children that were left at the nunneries never left and became nuns. Often older women would become nuns because they were sent there by husbands or they were left alone and the nunneries were safe places.
What was life like for the ursuline nuns?
The Ursuline Nuns lifestyle is that they came to New France to build schools for girls, no boys. They also brought girls in to there schools that did not have any money.
Who are nuns friends?
Other nuns
Who does the monks and nuns job naw?
Monks and nuns do the monks' and nuns' jobs now.
How did children become a part of this religion if celibacy was practiced as with the Cloistered Nuns and Monks of the Catholic Religion...where did the children come from to keep the membership incre?
Not the entire Catholic population became nuns and monks - only a small part.
Can nuns vote?
Yes, nuns can vote.
