A Renaissance of Chapel Veils

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"Even if veiling doesn’t become the norm for Catholic women across the country the way it was in the '50s, it’s certainly gaining a level of critical mass. And if the reasoning behind the practice is articulated winningly, it’s not likely to draw fierce ire from those who don’t undertake it themselves.
“After all,” says Darrow, “there is something beautiful about how that piece of fashion speaks to faith and prayer life.”

 
I think this may be the first generation since the 1960’s not so gripped by secular feminism as to see such a practice as covering one’s head in church as an oppression of women. For 50 years, the model has been for women not to cover they’re heads in church and for many runs even to forgo the habit. Perhaps the pendulum is now swinging back.
 
Yes, the pendulum swings one way and the people with a rebellious nature swing the other.
 
One day, the clock will stop. Then where will they be? 🤣
 
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Millennials don’t seem to be a particularly rebellious generation. Many of them seem to tend more toward a return to tradition.
 
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Millennials don’t seem to be a particularly rebellious generation. Many of them seem to tend more toward a return to tradition.
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What’s there to rebel against? Here on CAF it seems to be the OF Mass, why should that be a surprise to anyone. Young people want something of their own. If vailing were still a thing people did, then young people wouldn’t want to do it. I don’t see anyone doing it anyway.

So I don’t put much stock in the vailing thing, to me it’s just a way for young people to separate themselves from the crowd…is it any surprise that it involves clothing?

Millennials have so many pacifiers too. I see it here on CAF all the time. Too many video games, too much social media, too much pacification and sensitivity training in school. They really seem to be a flat generation if there ever was one.
 
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If vailing were still a thing people did, then young people wouldn’t want to do it. I don’t see anyone doing it anyway.
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I would have to disagree with you here. All that led me to veil was a good historically backed argument and I was good to go. If it had been normal to veil, yet I had heard a good reason from my parents to wear a veil, I still would. Nothing to do with standing out in a crowd (in fact it can be very embarrassing to stand out with a veil).
 
Obsessions for, obsessions against…when are people going to forget their trivial desires/aversions re “being seen” and actually say hello to God at Church.

The pendulum is itself the problem not its position or motion.

Chapel veils indeed 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
 
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I think this may be the first generation since the 1960’s not so gripped by secular feminism as to see such a practice as covering one’s head in church as an oppression of women.
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I think the fact that they get to choose whether to wear a head covering, rather than having some male clergy person tell them it’s required, makes it much less oppressive and more “their own statement” that they can make about how it makes them feel more reverent or connected to their ancestral tradition or just that it looks pretty (and to be honest - I think a lot of young girls are very interested in the latter).

Also, from the amount of defending of the practice they do on the Internet, it seems like wearing the head covering has become for some a form of rebellion in and of itself.
 
Chapel veils are very fashionable and beautiful on women, like high heels, stockings, cosmetics and jewellery.
 
Except it’s not about fashion.

It’s about reverence and piety.
 
If you say so.
Yes, its certainly a statement about “reverence and piety”.
 
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What do you mean if I say so?

Ask any of the women here why they wear them.

It’s to foster a sense of the Sacred, for reverence and piety, not a fashion statement.
 
Yes, young women never do things to be noticed.
And the reason younger people suddenly do things is always what they consciously believe it to be.
 
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Lets not stand on the pendulum, the pendulum is the problem.
Lets just spend time with Jesus in Church veil or no veil.
 
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