I'd been admitted to postulancy, which was what mattered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

This applicant is recommended at this time for postulancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

Then apply for postulancy in the diocese of Niagara, as well as CPE.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

Now I just have financial, immigration, postulancy, academic and crowded-city anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

While that's the final major step in the postulancy process, it's no guarantee of ordination.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

Before my postulancy interview, I was required to go through a thorough psychological examination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Archdeacons are commonly involved in the postulancy process and, subject to the bishop's OK, in the placement of clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

My interview to be admitted to postulancy -- the first step in a process leading to candidacy and then to actual ordination -- was a fiasco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

And she spoke of Evelyn's postulancy; of how long it had lasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

Her postulancy has been unduly prolonged; it is nearly a year since she returned from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

They are guided as they progress through stages of postulancy, novitiate, temporary vows, and final vows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oak Leaves] Reference

It is not usual for candidates to announce their own postulancy or be present when their nomination occurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference

After two years postulancy and novitiate, the lay novice becomes a donné, wearing a brown habit, but takes no vows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The postulancy lasts for six months and the novitiate for two years, after which vows are taken for three years, and then perpetual vows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The postulancy usually lasts one month, the novitiate one year, at the end which simple vows are taken; the solemn vows are taken four years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The postulancy lasts from six to nine months, the novitiate a year, after which the sisters take vows annually for three years, and then perpetual simple vows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

“During my postulancy,” she said, “it cost me a great deal to perform certain exterior penances, customary in our convents, but I never yielded to these repugnances; it seemed to me that the image of my Crucified Lord looked at me with beseeching eyes, and begged these sacrifices.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Soul]

It seemed like listening to a fairy tale to hear that Ulick was doing very well for himself; and travelling back to the convent, by those mysterious roads which conversation follows, Owen learned that it was at the end of the first year of her postulancy that Evelyn had heard of her father's illness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

"During my postulancy," she said, "it cost me a great deal to perform certain exterior penances, customary in our convents, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse] Reference

"During my postulancy," she said, "it cost me a great deal to perform certain exterior penances, customary in our convents, but I never yielded to these repugnances; it seemed to me that the image of my.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux] Reference

Now, when does my postulancy begin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Non-Canonical - and an alternative strategy] Reference

"But when I went to Rome my postulancy --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference