Usually I see white mantillas on girls and single women and black ones on married women. There are a few exceptions. I’m a single lady who doesn’t wear a white mantilla. I bought a purple one shortly after I began attending the Latin Mass-both because it was my favourite colour and because of Lent. Around Easter I bought a pink one which I still wear-even though it’s after Pentecost. One married woman in our community wears a brown mantilla and there’s a little girl who wears a light blue one.
I think the colors used to mean something, but not anymore, really. White for unmarrieds, black for widows and married ladies.Usually I see white mantillas on girls and single women and black ones on married women. There are a few exceptions. I’m a single lady who doesn’t wear a white mantilla. I bought a purple one shortly after I began attending the Latin Mass-both because it was my favourite colour and because of Lent. Around Easter I bought a pink one which I still wear-even though it’s after Pentecost. One married woman in our community wears a brown mantilla and there’s a little girl who wears a light blue one.
I noticed that there’s a lady who comes to Mass by herself-unless she takes me to church-and wears a black mantilla. Do divorced women and/or widows wear black mantillas?
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They can wear little bonnets before they find their heads, and then once they find their heads, nothing until they’re old enough to stop messing with the head covering, about 3 years or so, maybe. My 4 and 6 year olds wear a little dinner plate doily style with a clip. Of course it inevitably gets bunched up on top of their heads, like a little round Brillo pad.
I like the idea too, the only time I saw them in my parish is the one Tridentine Mass I went during the brief time it was offered (the priest who was doing it was part of the deanery and reposted by the military, and there hasn’t been a replacement yet). I don’t see them at “regular” mass.
There are lots to pick from in the stores right now.
In the winter, you could wear a beret. It covers your head and looks like something anyone would wear anytime. It’s not too hot, so you could wear it from about October through March or April. In the warm months, you could wear some sort of little straw hat. A simple bandanna would work too. The only thing about a bandanna, is that people might assume you’re wearing it because you were too lazy to wash your hair. I look like I should be washing floors when I wear a bandanna, so I don’t. You could also take one and fold it into a wide headband. See how that looks and it might be an option for you.
No one in my church or another church I frequently go to wear head coverings either and I struggled with this myself. I was also worried about how others would perceive this but remember reading a post from someone else who would pray to the Holy Spirit before going to mass. I do this every time now and it has helped me to focus on why I go to mass and it helps me to be more reverent. Now I cannot imagine entering church without wearing one. For me, it’s also a reminder that Jesus is really present in the Blessed Sacrament. I have gotten a lot more out of mass since I’ve been wearing one.
I’ve belonged to a couple parishes like that-or at least they had guitar Masses instead of choir. I’ve sung in a few guitar Mass groups myself. Whether or not you’d be willing to be “caught dead” with a covering is up to you.
I think wearing one helps me be more reverent too. Makes me feel privileged to be a woman so I can do this in the Catholic Church. (Kind of makes me wonder how the experience at the Traditional Mass would be different for a man.)
Or that some women wear whatever color they want to.**My hair isn’t pink or purple-lol! Just my mantillas. But I think the pink and the purple go good with many things I wear to church such as the purple tie-dye dress I sometimes wear to church.I am not a ‘headcoverer’ but have a story I’d like to share:
…:thumbsup:I, too, thought that white was for virgins, black for married women. A friend of mine who attends the Latin Mass corrected me on that and said that that is not so. She said women usually try to match closest to their haircolor?
When I go to weekday Mass (and when I’m out in the world in general), I usually wear a bandana. Sometimes a tichel, sometimes a crocheted beanie, sometimes a sun hat, sometimes I flip the hood up on my sweatshirt…but never a baseball cap. I went to Mass once in a ball cap before I started covering regularly and it was just all wrong.
The Faith is timeless.…i miss a lot of the outward signs of our faith. I still miss the nuns of most convents wearing habits… who was it that said the only thing constant is change…
It never changes.