[B Knotts]

they also wear a chapel veil

In doing some reading about indult Masses, I've noticed this is the case, and it is presented as a requirement. I find this disturbing, as this is no longer a requirement as per the Canon Law of 1983.

http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/head_coverings_in_church.htm

There's certainly nothing wrong with women choosing to wear a head covering, but I don't think it should be presented as if it is a requirement.

[Maximilian]

There's certainly nothing wrong with women choosing to wear a head covering, but I don't think it should be presented as if it is a requirement.

At our church, about half the women wear a chapel veil. So it's not an absolute requirement of attending the Latin Mass, although some parishes actually pass them out at the door.

Although it's no longer a matter of positive written law, it's still a matter of divine law, since it's required in the Bible. You can compare it to eating meat on Friday and fasting before communion. These written laws were eliminated. But anyone who wants to practice the traditional Catholic faith will continue to observe these practices voluntarily.

[ninenot]

Ahhhh....but the Old Rite operates with ALL the Old Rite rubrics, and by extension, with the requirements used in 1962, including headcoverings for the ladies.

That's custom, and not a hard-and-fast requirement; at the same time, when in Rome...

[ultima ratio]

A head covering for women is a custom--it is not a requirement. Nobody makes a big deal out of this--and never did, not even in preconciliar days. It is customary for women to use mantillas or even to pin a handkerchief on the head temporarily out of respect. Jewish men do as much--with the yarmalka. Similar thing--a custom, that is all.

[TradicalRC]

Canon law it may be, yet I get very uncomfortable when the Church contradicts Scripture.