Do Nuns Wear Wedding Rings

But not all orders wear them.

Do nuns wear wedding rings. Watch rare footage of the ceremony where nuns say their final vows. Theyve done so since medieval times. Because in the west the left hand ring finger is for married people.

I would have thought theyd wear it. Is it up to a community or could they choose to wear it on the left. At Immaculate Heart of Mary wedding bands are instead passed down from one nun to another after a nuns death.

The use of such rings was of older date than Christianity and there is not much to suggest that the giving of the ring. Ad Search Wear Wedding Rings. Not one husband or wife has said.

I had a principle that was a nun and I cant remember her wearing hers. Turkey and Lebanon nationals traditionally wear the ring on the right hand for the wedding and switch it to the left after the wedding. Because traditionally people who wear rings on left hand consider married or committed and nuns are not married so they wear rings on the right hand.

Some nuns or similar laity such as Lutheran deaconesses in other faiths are not bound by the same celibacy vows or simply do not wear wedding rings. A little Irish nun beside me in. 11232010 As nuns sisters take three strict vows.

They all get them it just depends on if they want to wear them or not. The wearing of a Wedding Ring by those in the religious life is symbolic of their mystical and spiritual marriage to God. Only enclosed female religious living contemplative lives enclosed within a nunnery never or rarely leaving it are actually nuns.