Posted on 05/22/2007 6:24:41 PM PDT by NYer
A timely topic, as usual.
Yeah, and when women show up without head coverings someone plops a kleenex on their heads. That’s better than not having any covering? I think not. Just another in a long list of why I’ve quit the Catholic Church.
I had this very same ???? reading the Bible/Adult Catechism class and I remember as a child the head coverings.
The answer given to me was Vatican 1972 (right year?) when the Mass went to English, the nuns lost thier habits and the gloves and head coverings were no longer required. (short answer)
Personally? I find a lacy mantilla to be absolutely lovely. And I wish women would wear hats to church as well.
We always "dressed up" for Church as a sign of being somewhere special when I was a kid; and even more so during the Holidays.
And we were boring, white-bread Lutherans!
All the women had their heads covered.
I assume this is still the practice.
I suppose everyone can find reasons if they look hard enough for them. On a scale of 1 to 100, this is -5.78, however.
Apparently you didn't read the article all the way through. The majority of Catholics no longer wear head coverings, even though we once did pre VCII. To leave the Catholic Church over wearing a head covering in reverence and respect for God, is a very flimsy excuse. I'm guessing your quibble is far deeper than that. You are always welcome home.
“Yeah, and when women show up without head coverings someone plops a kleenex on their heads. That’s better than not having any covering? I think not. Just another in a long list of why I’ve quit the Catholic Church.”
oh c’mon.
Sure it’s silly and can make a person roll their eyes, but everywhere you go there’s going to be some sort of silliness.
I see the same types from all different types of denominations - “Look at me! I’m holier than you!” - and they have different ways of expressing that sentiment, but we shouldn’t allow it discourage us from practicing our faith.
I think a show of reverence for God is simply innate in humans if they are allowed to express it. It is akin to Catholics who still genuflect or kneel to receive the Eucharist rather than strictly stand in line as one would at the Dairy Queen. I applaud those women and their overt show of Faith!
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-Michaleen O’Flynn, the “Quiet Man”
And I agree whole-heartedly. I was just amazed to see it, though I've never seen it since in any other Protestant denominational church.
A GREAT movie. I just bought it on DVD.
I fervently agree! I don’t have the DVD but I have a great deal of the dialog memorized.
It is tough to beat a comedy starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ward Bond, Victor McLauglin and Barry Fitzgerald (plus the Irish Players) in a movie directed by John Ford.
And it has all of Ireland as the backdrop...sigh!
LOL - Classic!
Now that's just silly.
Gain some perspective for Pete's sake and come on home.
And donate a box of doilies and bobby pins for the ladies (they had two of them in the narthex when I was a kid -- and that was for Episcopalians!)
There is nothing in the Pauline Epistles that says headcoverings were cultural. He doesn't say it applies to the Greeks (Cortinthians) and not to the Romans or the Jews when it comes to headcovering, but to all; he doesn't say in his days but maybe not tomorrow. He is very careful to specy if something is not the Lord's commandment but his own judgment (1 Cor 7:6, 25).
Bottom line is: headcovering was removed for social, faddish, politically correct reasons, making the scriptures fit our man-made norms rather than the other way around.
In Orthodox churches outside of North America, the separation of men and women and headcoverings for women are still largely observed. In America, it is largely ignored. That says a lot.
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