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Example sentences for "novitiate"

Lexicographically close words:
noviceship; noviciate; novis; novit; noviter; novitiates; novna; novos; novus; now
  1. During my whole novitiate no amount of austerity could appease my desire for mortification, and several gifts in the way of prayer were bestowed on me.

  2. St. Trond was the novitiate of the Belgian Province, which embraced Belgium and Holland as well as the newly established convents in England and America.

  3. And about the same time, to a very intimate friend: "God revealed to me in my novitiate that at some future time I should suffer the crucifixion.

  4. In it he says: "My novitiate was one of sore trials, for the master of novices seemed not to understand me, and the manifestation of my interior to him was a source of the greatest pain.

  5. Here they were soon joined by Mr. McMaster, and their novitiate began.

  6. In the novitiate they were all too much on the passive side-- unbroken devotional and ascetic routine.

  7. As you were not certain whether I would return after the novitiate or not, I suppose you left my name in connection with yours and brother George's in the firm.

  8. During the year and more of my novitiate I have not had any temptation against my vocation, nor any desire on my part to return to the world.

  9. During my novitiate and studies one of my great troubles was the relation between infused knowledge and acquired knowledge; how much one's education should be by prayer and how much by study; the relation between the Holy Ghost and professors.

  10. Your proposed "Hymns" will be a fit preparatory study wherewith "to discipline your young novitiate soul.

  11. The Princess was still in the first novitiate of love, and had not the slightest knowledge of its mysteries.

  12. She expected from the chaste Meta the blush of soft virgin bashfulness, which announces the novitiate in love; and then a full resignation of herself to the maternal will.

  13. The province of Germany though dispersed has built in Holland an immense novitiate and house of retreats and the Luxemburg house of writers is to be united to the Collegium Maximum of Valkenburg.

  14. Hitherto, they have not had any novitiate in this country, and, as their numbers are gradually diminishing, it is evident that they cannot exercise their useful ministry unless a novitiate is accorded them.

  15. Thus a college was organized at Brugelette in Belgium and a novitiate at Issenheim.

  16. He began with the novitiate of Destelbergen.

  17. When the saintly Pignatelli opened the novitiate at Parma in 1799, Mozzi joined him and young Angelo who was then seventeen years old went there as a novice.

  18. Besides, a novitiate had been established, members of the dispersed provinces had been officially recognized as belonging to the Society; and all this had been done with the tacit consent of the Sovereign Pontiff.

  19. The opportunity was taken advantage of to ask the august captive for authorization to open a novitiate and he most willingly granted the request.

  20. Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, whose name is sometimes written Zaccheria, was a Venetian who had entered the Austrian novitiate in 1731, when he was a boy of seventeen.

  21. A novitiate of varying length was observed before a candidate was admitted to the brotherhood.

  22. It was, as we have said, the novitiate of their religious life.

  23. His monastery was for the East of Ireland for many ages what Aran of St. Enda was for the West--a great school of asceticism, a novitiate for the training of the young saints and clergy of Erin in virtue even more than in knowledge.

  24. He had not seen his daughter for two years, and now these letters informed him that she wished to become a Nun of the Holy Nativity, and to enter upon her novitiate immediately!

  25. I wish to enter upon my novitiate immediately.

  26. They beg, therefore, that the church to be built at Hall with all its treasures may be taken over by the Society, for which they also wish to found a novitiate there.

  27. In order to secure the Jesuits permanently as their directors, the pious archduchesses determined to found a novitiate at Hall, and to offer it to the General of the Society.

  28. The severest trials of the novitiate seemed light to him, and his superiors had frequently to restrain his self-imposed denials.

  29. On completion of his novitiate and termination of the courses of philosophy and theology, he was made prefect of studies of the English College at Rome.

  30. From all this it is at least evident that our poor progenitors had to undergo a long novitiate to become invested with the habits proper to man.

  31. Here she was served with the most tender assiduity until able to be removed to Montreal, whither her kind nurse attended her, and she entered at once upon her novitiate in a convent there.

  32. It possesses a novitiate of its own at Santa Clara, and only requires a house of studies to have all the organization of a province complete in itself.

  33. Having soon after joined the Redemptorist congregation, Father Dechamps made his novitiate in 1835.

  34. The knights and gentlemen of this little army of horse and foot soldiers were largely recruited from the company of squires and bachelors, as the young novitiate soldiers of the castle were called.

  35. Then one gilded day, when Lord Dudleigh was visiting at Devlen, Myles ran a course with a heavier lance in the presence of the Earl, who came down to the tilt-yard with his guest to see the young novitiate ride against Sir Everard.

  36. He was clad in a novitiate dress, arranged under Lord George's personal supervision.

  37. In 1883 he passed through his second novitiate after a retirement of six months, which fully equipped him for the missions.

  38. In the year 1838 he entered the Christian Brothers at Cork, and after a short novitiate received the habit and the vows by which these holy men consecrate themselves to the service of their Maker and the spiritual welfare of their fellow men.

  39. We must now pass to the sublime novitiate and preparation of grace, by which she became, during the last thirty-five years of her life, an exact image of Our crucified Lord.

  40. This is the novitiate of heaven, where it is the uninterrupted occupation of the blessed.

  41. He made an essay of a novitiate both among the Capuchins and the Grey Friars, but could not be admitted to his religious profession among either on account of a running sore in one of his legs, which was judged incurable.

  42. That miserable girl completed her novitiate five months ago; and the night before she was to take the veil she escaped.

  43. Brinon to examine them all, and to begin nothing for the novitiate until my return.

  44. It would be such a sad thing if you were to go away, and find that, after all, you had a vocation for the religious life, for if you return to us you will have to go through the novitiate again.

  45. The other day she said in the novitiate she was sure she would go to hell, and that she wouldn't be able to bear the uncertainty much longer.

  46. A novice spends six months in the novitiate with me learning obedience, how to forget herself, how she is merely an instrument, and how the greatest purpose of her life is to obey.

  47. XXVI Next day in the novitiate Mother Hilda explained to Evelyn how the centre of their life was the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar.

  48. Mother Hilda's instruction in the novitiate seems childish, yet why is it more childish than a hundred other things?

  49. I hardly know her; she has hardly been in the novitiate since she returned from Rome.

  50. One year later he was entered in the novitiate of the Redemptorists in Belgium, and there he cultivated to a high degree the spirit of lofty mystical piety which marked him through life.

  51. Her novitiate days had come next--strange, trying apprenticeship, that had been lightened and comforted by the woman whose powerful and magnetic personality had never failed to assert itself and its strength.

  52. I am sitting in my room at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Nagatsuke; during the past half year, the philosophical and theological section of our Mission had been evacuated to this place from Tokyo.

  53. The Novitiate is situated approximately two kilometers from Hiroshima, half-way up the sides of a broad valley which stretches from the town at sea level into this mountainous hinterland, and through which courses a river.

  54. He was educated at the Jesuit College of Fulda, and at {119} the early age of sixteen, having completed his college course, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Mainz.

  55. On the expiry of his novitiate he became professor at Luxembourg, and afterwards at Liege.

  56. He commenced his novitiate two years afterwards, and in testimony of his admiration for the apostle of India added Xavier to his surname.

  57. The last seven years have been the most important of my life: they have been the novitiate of my intelligence, the initiation of my being into being.

  58. The last seven years have been the most important of my life; they have been the novitiate of my intelligence, the initiation of my being into being.

  59. Three therefore, among those of the best capacity and the highest virtue, passed their novitiate in the prison, and at the end of their year professed.

  60. The native pride and hauntiness of the Japanese are very much opposed to the religious state, but father Fray Thomas in his novitiate and throughout his life exhibited the greatest humility.

  61. A thorough novitiate of seasickness is as indispensable, in my opinion, to the formation of true manly character, as the measles to a well-regulated childhood.

  62. The man who knows nothing of the novitiate of patience--who has passed through life without the chastening discipline of bodily pain--has missed one of the best parts of existence.


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    Other words:
    apprentice; baby; beginner; boot; catechumen; colt; entrant; fledgling; freshman; greenhorn; greeny; ignoramus; infant; initiate; learner; neophyte; nestling; newcomer; novice; postulant; probationer; recruit; rookie; tenderfoot; trainee; tyro