[Hermann the Cherusker]

Next thing you know we will all be wearing hats and veils again.

Why not? Maybe you could wear gloves and dresses again too, so that the appearance of going to our most important meeting of the day or week - to meet and receive the Lord Jesus - is outwardly shown.

The hair of a woman is given to her as her glory. Any woman knows that her long hair is one of her most remarkable and attractive features.

"But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering." (1 Cor. 11.15).

But in Church, we are there to glorify God, not to show off ourselves, as so many seem to think today. So women should veil their head in Church, as a part of their overall modest attire that St. Paul lays out elsewhere:

"In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works." (1 Timothy 2.9-10)

Dressing up and showing off feminine beauty and glory is fine OUTSIDE of Church, not within, when all the glory is God's.

Its funny that Catholic women will abide the rule of veiling and modest dress for meeting the Pope, but not for meeting Christ in the Eucharist.

I'm going to ping several other Catholic women on this for their remarks.

[fml]

--Dressing up and showing off feminine beauty and glory is fine OUTSIDE of Church, not within, when all the glory is God's.--

I'm a Catholic woman and it works for me.

[american colleen]

Its funny that Catholic women will abide the rule of veiling and modest dress for meeting the Pope, but not for meeting Christ in the Eucharist.

I'm with ya on this. We dress better for our kids school events, weddings, funerals and even just to "shop" than we do for Mass.

[Desdemona]

Hey, you didn't ping me!

I don't have a problem with hats and veils and I always wear feminine clothes, but not revealing to church. My hair is long and I've had to fight off all sorts of well meaning women to keep it that way.

I've never worn gloves, they were before my time, but there is something to keeping hands nice at least. There are ways to deal with work roughened hands.

Frankly, when you look like a lady, you're treated like one. And there is nothing wrong with looking your best for the Lord.

[Marysecretary]

I wouldn't mind wearing hats and gloves again to church. It was kinda nice. But, then I'd have to wear a dress, wouldn't I? Hmm, I don't always do that.

[beelzepug]

"Next thing you know we will all be wearing hats and veils again."

Amen to that. And a jacket and tie wouldn't kill the men, either. While I truely believe I have a friend in Jesus, he is my Lord, not my buddy. I leave the Bermuda shorts and aloha shirts at home n Sunday mornings.