ASK FATHER: Priest tells woman not to wear veil at Mass

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I’d love to find an adjustable full slip. Everything I have is from my aunt or my mom.
 
No where near enough information for me to have an opinion on this… However, Christian virtue requires us to assume positive intent. Perhaps this priest knows the woman and has had discussions with her about this and determined that his advice to here would be for her not to wear the veil… maybe because her motivation was problematic. It is possible that wearing the veil has less to do with reverence for God and more to do with drawing attention… Not saying that is the case, but it is possible. Or the priest was out of line… Either way… head coverings for women get way too much play on these boards… It is a 100% superficial topic and consumes too much of time… (like the 2 mins I just spend writing this 😉 )
 
Margaret_Ann said:
I’d love to find an adjustable full slip. Everything I have is from my aunt or my mom.
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If it’s not too odd for you, I actually see full slips in thrift stores. Wash them in hot water and I really don’t think it’s much different from buying one that Lord knows how many people have tried on.
 
Oh, goodness, yes. I couldn’t believe it. Apparently, this look is in?
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(This was taken before their marriage, and Diana apparently said to Prince Charles: “I don’t want to be known as the girlfriend who had no petticoat.”)
 
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I actually almost commented with a mention of her…that photo is sadly iconic.
 
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She’s wearing a petticoat? I can’t tell from the picture.
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No, that photo shows what happens when you don’t wear a slip because you don’t think you’re going to be in bright sun. The skirt was not nearly so sheer as it seems to be in the picture–she was a kindergarten aide at the time, I believe. If memory serves correctly, the sun was only like that for the picture for a few minutes. She was nineteen, generally dressed modestly, and the angle showed her legs.
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I actually almost commented with a mention of her…that photo is sadly iconic.
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It was a bit of a foreshadowing picture concerning so much.
 
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Can anyone tell me what is the full purpose of wearing a veil in the first place?

I have nothing against the veil,but I come from a European Slavic background,where it was pretty commonplace for older women to wear maramca/headscarf in everyday life-eg:working in field-but even there now literally no one wears it in Catholic Church,neither younger or older women.

On the other hand,I know it is commonplace-perhaps even required-amongst Russian women in the Russian Orthodox Church.

If you are in a place where it would make people stare and form judgements/presumptions and be a divisive factor,even if the others are wrong to do so,wouldn’t it be more right not to wear it in these circumstances?
I think people weren’t meant to draw attention to themselves in Church (whether short skirt or anything)?

At the same time,if Muslims are free to wear head coverings as much as they want,then surely Catholics should be too.

I mean no disrespect,but sometimes I wonder though, because (with some exceptions) it predominantly American women who are so passionate about the topic,is the internal subconscious motive always due to purely personal devotion/submission to God or is is partly also due the “romanticisation factor” of it-ie:veils can look/feel feminine and pretty and make a woman feel that way?
 
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Rozellelily said:
Can anyone tell me what is the full purpose of wearing a veil in the first place?
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The custom arose because in former times, in Europe, a woman’s hair style and head covering signified her marital status and, if unmarried, her availability for marriage. Advertising that you are looking for a husband was deemed improper in church, so the custom of veiling became common. Veils were associated with women who were already “taken” or otherwise “off limits”.
 
I’m in two minds about the whole dress nice for church thing.
I believe on one hand people should come with a respectful attitude towards Mass,but then on the other hand we live in a culture that is so saturated with image image image.

I hate to think that someone who was more “drowntrodden” looking or homeless etc would avoid coming to a Church because they felt uncomfortable/less than all the other people in their nice clothes and polished looks…
 
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PetraG said:
or you are dressed in such a way that you are certain to be an utter distraction to everyone present, of course there is a point at which you simply can’t go into a gathering without causing offense, but sometimes some of u
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My concern would be though if someone is offended by something someone is wearing,then they are doing the dismissiveness that you mentioned elsewhere in your post.
I can’t think of any type of clothing I could see that would "offend me"except if someone came in underwear just for the fun of it.

Isn’t there a danger that by focusing excessively on external clothing-and therefore appearances-it can subtly set up the mindset towards others that was warned about in James?
 
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Can even femininity be made into an false idol?

There’s this girl caramiaelenakatarinakristina on Instagram.
Maybe I’m just cynical or jealous,but her posts seem to mix veiling,narcissism and vanity.
When it’s done this way,is this still a witness to God and contercultural or is it more "look at me I’m so feminine and pretty and look feminine in a veil?

https://www.instagram.com/caramiaelenakatarinakristina/
 
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Rozellelily said:
Maybe I’m just cynical or jealous,but her posts seem to mix veiling and vanity.
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You’re not. At some point, it becomes tantamount to cosplay. A friend of my boys went through a Traddie cosplay phase. It was quite silly.
 
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