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"Dominique" is a 1963 French language popular song, written and performed by Belgian singer Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile" in French) or The Singing Nun. The song is about Saint Dominic , a Spanish-born priest and founder of the Dominican Order , of which she was a member (as Sister Luc-Gabrielle). [ 2 ]
Nones, also known as None ("Ninth"), the Ninth Hour, or the Midafternoon Prayer, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said around 3 pm (15:00), about the ninth hour after dawn. In the Roman Rite the Nones is one of the so-called Little hours.
The Singing Nun was the first artist to have the top-selling album and a single from that album be the top-selling single in America at the same time (Stevie Wonder's Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius and "Fingertips, Part 2" had topped the charts the previous year, but not at the same time; this is the only other time an artist's album and ...
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According to the last Pew Research poll published in January of 2024, the Nones represent nearly 30% of the American population, which is no small amount, and if you add in those that consider ...
The Nunsense concept originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. The cards caught on so quickly that Goggin decided to expand the concept into a cabaret show called The Nunsense Story, which opened for a four-day run at Manhattan's Duplex and remained for 38 weeks, encouraging its creator to expand it into a full-length theater production.
Gelongma ordination requires the presence of ten fully ordained people keeping exactly the same vows. Because ten nuns are required to ordain a new one, the effort to establish the Dharmaguptaka bhikkhu tradition has taken a long time. It is permissible for a Tibetan nun to receive bhikkhuni ordination from another living tradition, e.g., in ...