Monsignor Pope Ping!
This would be an excellent video to share with youth groups and young adult worshippers. It does not apply just to Mass
In my church, some wear suits while others look like they just got off their tractor. I go by the bible’s dress code.
How do I dress for church?
Well, I guess like most men I put my pants on one leg at a time. I put a shirt on, tuck it in. Put on some shoes and socks.
Why?
How many of these Christian observations are found in the New Testament Covenant?
Give God your best. You have to decide what that means.
We’re Eastern Orthodox... They even say:
No chewing gum
Don’t sit with your legs crossed
I’m not Catholic.
I never wear jeans to a Sunday service.
Always khakis or slacks.
Always a button down shirt, and most often with a blazer.
In hot weather I might wear a classic Cuban or subdued Hawaiian style shirt.
It’s a personal choice, and an increasingly unique one.
Back in the 50s 60s when I went to Catholic school if possible we were suppose to show up at Mass on Sunday at a prescribed time and sit with our class. A shirt and tie was mandatory. Though if we were doing something with the family we were allowed to go at a different time as long as we went. I don’t remember anyone going to mass in jeans or t-shirts then.
As a lapsed Catholic, when I do attend now.....I see people dressed from very dressed up to very sloppy. I suppose God does not condemn on that account
When it comes to judging others by how they dress for church, I follow the example of the late great Lewis Grizzard.
One Sunday a young woman attempted to sit in the pew in front of me. Attempted because her legs were so long & her miniskirt so short, that she literally had to sit nearly sideways. I raised my eyes heavenward & prayed,
“O Lord, I do thank Thee for vouchsafing unto me, Thy humble servant, this heavenly vision of some of the beautiful things which Thou hast made!”
(flameproof suit donned)
;^)
More rules to separate the members of the church from the people and make new comers feel less welcome. I have seen it and even have had people say to me that they were glad that they could come to our church “dressed down” and were accepted as they were.... jeans and all. Some had fallen on hard times and didn’t have nice clothes. They felt that when they attended a “traditional” church that everyone dressed up, that they were looked down upon. That was really a shame because they turned out to be a really nice family.
In the South parking lots are above 100 degrees and we dress a bit lighter than many yankees on Sunday.
No, I am not joking.
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My pet peeves are this:
1. Men who wear hats inside the sanctuary (this includes metro-millennial watch caps).
2. Visible tats.
3. Shorts and t-shirts.
4. Dresses above mid-thigh.
5. Backless dresses.
6. Visible underwear and bras.
7. Over-abundant cleavage.
Since it was a short trip, I only had packed a polo shirt and a suit for the interview. "Don't wear the suit," he warned me, "you'd be greatly overdressed."
So I wore the polo shirt and was still overdressed.
It has been my experience that the attire of the congregation is correlated to the respect for the Blessed Sacrament.
Sometimes the congregation isn’t well informed, or well catechized, and thus the attire. I was really shocked, in one parish, to find people wearing the local NFL jersey to Mass on game day. While it is good they went to Mass, it is certainly more important than football.
Not catholic but there are many times I took the kids to church in their sports uniforms as we had a game right after church There are also times when I attend in scrubs either on the way or on the way home from work I think God would rather have me there in scrubs than not at all.....
Yesterday I wore Jeans, T-Shirt, hoodie and sneakers ...
Jesus wore a dress...
This is timely. I went to Mass with my mom yesterday at her church and I was pretty shocked to see so many short shorts (really short shorts), cami’s and other similar-strapped sundresses. I tried not to be judgmental, but there it is. I thought “come on people. You don’t have a decent pair of slacks or skirt and a top with a back and some sort of sleeves?” Pretty disrespectful.