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Head Coverings for Women (in the Catholic Church)
Zenit News Agency ^ | May 22, 2007 | Father Edward McNamara

Posted on 05/22/2007 6:24:41 PM PDT by NYer

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To: livius
... if you have decent clothing around and can dress properly, why not do so for God?

Agreed. I wonder if some of our high schoolers will ever learn how to dress? All of the lay positions (Eucharistic ministers, Cross bearer, offeratory bearers, greeters, etc.) are taken by high schoolers at our 6PM Sunday Mass.I suppose it isgood to get them involved, but it is disgraceful to see what they are wearing when they show up to work. I really don't know how their parents allow them out of the house that way.

61 posted on 05/23/2007 9:47:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Sacajaweau

The nun was only enforcing what she saw as a rule as to how to present oneself to the Bishop. I was embarrassed because I had not been raised Catholic and I did not already “know” the rule. LOL. The embarrassment was my own doing.


62 posted on 05/23/2007 9:52:54 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Sashula
Of course we'll pray for you.

Start with a hair ribbon or just a little doily pinned up in your hair. Do you have long or short hair? You can easily create something to put in your hair if it's long and you put it up. Something along the lines of a scrunchy, only a little more lacey. And with a pretty pin in it. There are lots of little things you can wear, and then just gradually edge towards a mantilla or a hat.

Getting used to the idea is the main thing.

63 posted on 05/23/2007 9:53:06 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Sacajaweau

BTW. It had not come up before, although I had been a practicing Catholic for a few years already, because in those days we received Communion at the rail and our hands were always hidden under a rail cloth when the Priest put the wafer on our tongues and the server held the paten under our chins to catch any stray crumbs.


64 posted on 05/23/2007 9:56:57 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I think that how you are dressed shows respect for the occasion and respect for God.

And that is why you should continue to dress for Him each week when you go to Mass.

4" heels! Oh my!

65 posted on 05/23/2007 9:57:31 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
4" heels! Oh my!

Well, I was about 25 at the time. No more! LOL. But I only mention the heels because that nun nearly knocked me off of them when she grabbed my wrist! :)

66 posted on 05/23/2007 10:01:13 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
You take off your left glove (or your right glove, if you're an Episcopalian) to receive.

Surprised nobody told you that in Confirmation class . . . sheesh, somebody always forgets something!

67 posted on 05/23/2007 10:02:49 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Sashula; Steve0113
I truly believe that wearing the veil is the right thing to do, but I don’t have the guts to do it unless I’m at a parish where others wear it.

I didn't cover my hair until after we were married. It's a slight point of dissension whether Steve "requested" or "suggested" that I cover my hair (I remember it as a request, he remembers it as a suggestion). I felt very conspicuous at first, and I'm still in the minority. When I attend Mass in the DC cathedral, I'm generally a minority of one. No one has ever said a word about it, though I sometimes get odd looks from children, who then whisper to their mothers. If anyone ever does have a negative comment, my response is pre-planned: "My husband prefers it."

If you think it's the right thing to do, just do it.

68 posted on 05/23/2007 10:07:04 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: AnAmericanMother

Well, I just guess it was because I took my classes in Berkeley. You know how THEY are.../s


69 posted on 05/23/2007 10:08:51 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Weird? Liberal? Stoned out of their minds?

(I only went to California once - for a friend's wedding, back in the 70's. A lot of folks out there seemed rather peculiar, but I wasn't there long enough to get a read on things generally . . . < g >)

70 posted on 05/23/2007 10:13:52 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Sashula

I almost always wear a hat or scarf for Mass. Nobody else wears a scarf or veil, except the traditionally-dressed Ethiopian ladies, but hats aren’t that unusual here in the South.

If you don’t want to be “devoutly” conspicuous, try a hat. If you see anyone looking at you, you can assume they’re admiring the hat and wishing they had one. And if anyone says anything, you can say, “Thanks! My husband (mother, sister, daughter, the cashier at Penney’s) said it looked cute!”


71 posted on 05/23/2007 10:31:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick (We all thread in this earth swathe.)
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To: livius

My family and I put our hands behind our backs (if we’re not holding a brother), so that Father or the minister of communion can’t possibly be confused by our hands.


72 posted on 05/23/2007 10:32:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (We all thread in this earth swathe.)
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To: Scotswife; mtbopfuyn

Lord knows the black Baptist ladies LOVE their Sunday hats, at least in the South.


73 posted on 05/23/2007 10:42:02 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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To: ichabod1; Scotswife; mtbopfuyn
I thought it was in the Canons for the Southern Baptists, AME, Apostolic Holiness, and Church of God of Prophecy that "Church Ladies Shall Wear Hats at All Times -- the More Elaborate, the Better."


74 posted on 05/23/2007 11:07:40 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: kosta50

My main objection is that the uncovering is like the rest of the whole abandonment of long standing practice in favor of the trendy, Reforming what aim to shock people tend, instead, to offend.


75 posted on 05/23/2007 11:14:30 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Perhaps, you are more knowledgeable than I, whereas I wasn’t alive in either the 1960s or 1970, I cannot comment on how the change came to be, I can only comment on how they appear now.


76 posted on 05/23/2007 1:02:39 PM PDT by Cheverus
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To: AnAmericanMother

Great hats! I live in the South and I love seeing the ladies wearing their hats on Sundays. It just seems so - well, festive. Really and truly Sunday.

When I lived in New York (where older black ladies still wear hats on Sundays) there were women in Harlem who had little “home haberdashery shops” in their apartments where they specialized in designing and making these hats.


77 posted on 05/23/2007 1:11:09 PM PDT by livius
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To: Tax-chick

That’s a point. The priests have gotten used to me by now, I guess. In any case, I remember that children were always told when they pressed their palms together to keep their hands pointing upwards and not to let them droop - because you wanted them to point in the direction you wanted to go!


78 posted on 05/23/2007 1:13:26 PM PDT by livius
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To: Sashula; afraidfortherepublic; Diana in Wisconsin; Knitting A Conundrum; k omalley; tob2; ...

Ladies, you may not be able to see all the names I have posted this comment to, but there are 10 of us (at least on this thread) who wear some type of headcovering:

Sashula
afraidfortherepublic
Diana in Wisconsin
Knitting a Conundrum
k omalley
tob2
nina0113
tax-chick
AnAmericanMother
and me, nanetteclaret

I personally prefer hats on Sunday or Holy Days, and chapel veils for weekdays or when travelling.

We are all part of Our Lady’s Hat Society! Remember at Fatima, she said that people would wear fashions which would displease Our Lord. When you make an effort to go before Him in the Blessed Sacrament with your head covered, I believe that you are obeying the words of Our Mother and showing respect, love, and humility before Jesus. He is, after all, God. And while He may be our Friend, He’s not our buddy. Covering our heads is an outward and visible sign that we are inwardly and spiritually acknowledging that He is God and we are not. Remember, the ancient Israelites knew that if someone looked on the face of God, he would die. They were shocked that Moses did not die, but his face was shining after his encounter with God on Mt. Sinai. The least we can do is cover our heads and acknowledge that He is the God of all creation.

If anyone asks you why you cover your head at Mass, it is because Jesus is present, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament. Mass is not a fellowship meal, it is an encounter with God. We also cover our heads because the angels are present at Mass. (I Cor. 11:10)


79 posted on 05/23/2007 1:20:32 PM PDT by nanetteclaret (Our Lady's Hat Society)
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To: NYer
Sociological factors might also have been involved. The greater emphasis on the equality of man and woman tended to downplay elements that stressed their differences.

Ah, good old egalite. Vatican II: when the French Revolution was embraced by the Church.

80 posted on 05/23/2007 3:14:47 PM PDT by TradicalRC ("...this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever..."-Pope St. Pius V)
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