Based upon some of your other posts I think you perhaps pay a bit too much attention to what you sense or feel. Truly, I was not baiting you but was curious as to what your story had to do with a thread about purgatory or Mass for that matter. But it sounds as though you were hurt or feel betrayed by the Catholic Church. My experiences have not always been good but for the last 10 years I have been very fortunate to be in a great parish with devout priests and a pastor that actually insists on teaching the congregation their Catholic faith.
Thank you for pointing that out. I should have been more straightforward instead of telling you that I sensed an attitude.
I referred to what you told me, as follows:
"...they wear a head covering not thinking it ridiculous at all."
"...mantilla is a better word, don't you think?"
"...your little story?"
You definitely did display a critical attitude in your response to me.
I cleared up your confusion in a previous post.
At one time it was considered sinful for a woman to go to Mass without a hat, mantilla, or even a folded tissue on her head. Sin = time in Purgatory. Yes, there is a connection and that is what we were taught in Catholic school. Purgatory is a "state" of suffering, doing penance, for venial sins, according to Catholic Church teaching. Women did not dare go to Mass bare-headed. (Is that word okay with you?)