Sentence examples for joining the order from inspiring English sources

A few left in the late 1960's but most live out their days at the abbey, and there is a small but steady number of younger women joining the order.

A woman who has begun the process of joining the order, but asked that she not be identified because she had not told her employer that she plans to quit, spoke of the difficulties, doubts and rewards she experienced along the way.

The soprano Patricia Racette was a memorable Blanche, the young woman from an aristocratic family who is racked by conflicting emotions, fear most of all, and seeks refuge from the revolutionary frenzy in Paris by joining the order of Carmelites at their convent in Compiègne.

Except for what Josephus calls the "tremendous oaths" exacted from an initiate joining the order, they refuse to swear any oath, saying that "one who is not believed without an appeal to God stands condemned already," and "any word of theirs," he says, "had more force than an oath".

She volunteered in my group home and was thinking about joining the order.

This was coupled with the "growing manpower shortage" caused by a declining number of members joining the order.

And the rituals of joining the orders usually involved cutting all ties to family, he said.

She joined the order in 1946.

She joined the order in 1963, a year after graduating.

She joined the Order of the Eastern Star, Laurel Chapter #.

When she joined the order there were 1,300 sisters.