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According to Wikipedia, it still is! 
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+There is a thriving secluded monastery . . . *tucked in the shade of the vast Rocky Mountain range in northern Wyoming here in the United States *. . . which is the extraordinary and devout prayer
ful monastery of the tonsured . . . **Carmelite Monks of Wyoming **. . . who seek to perpetuate the charism of devotion and consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary . . . living the Marian life as prescribed by the holy primitive Carmelite Rule and the ancient monastic observance . . . such as practiced by St. Teresa of Avilla and St. John of the Cross . . *which includes the Latin Rite of Tonsure *. . .
:compcoff: Link: carmelitemonks.org/contact.html
Father Mitch Pacwa has had them on his EWTN show . . . and has shared his wonderful encounters with them . . . and . . . with the delicious coffee
brews they produce known as Mystic Monk Coffee . . .
. . . :coffeeread: . . .
ful monastery of the tonsured . . . **Carmelite Monks of Wyoming **. . . who seek to perpetuate the charism of devotion and consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary . . . living the Marian life as prescribed by the holy primitive Carmelite Rule and the ancient monastic observance . . . such as practiced by St. Teresa of Avilla and St. John of the Cross . . *which includes the Latin Rite of Tonsure *. . .:compcoff: Link: carmelitemonks.org/contact.html
Father Mitch Pacwa has had them on his EWTN show . . . and has shared his wonderful encounters with them . . . and . . . with the delicious coffee
brews they produce known as Mystic Monk Coffee . . .. . . :coffeeread: . . .
TONSURE TODAY
The Roman [Tonsure]: this consisted of shaving only the top of the head, so as to allow the hair to grow in the form of a crown. This is claimed to have originated with Saint Peter, and is the practice of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. While not required, it is still a common practice of Roman Rite Friars, such as the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. …
Western Christianity
In the Latin or Western Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, “first tonsure” was, in medieval times, the rite of inducting someone into the clergy and qualifying him for the civil benefits then enjoyed by clerics.
Tonsure was a prerequisite for receiving the minor and major orders. Failing to maintain tonsure was the equivalent of attempting to abandon one’s clerical state, and in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any cleric in minor orders (or simply tonsured) who did not resume the tonsure within a month after being warned by his Ordinary, lost the clerical state. Over time, the appearance of tonsure varied, ending up for non-monastic clergy as generally consisting of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair at first tonsure in the Sign of the Cross and in wearing a bare spot on the back of the head which varied according to the degree of orders. It was not supposed to be less than the size of a communicant’s host, even for a tonsuratus, someone simply tonsured, and the approximate size for a priest’s tonsure was the size of a priest’s host. Countries that were not Catholic had exceptions to this rule, especially in the English-speaking world.
Apart from this general clerical tonsure, some Western Rite monastic orders, for example Carthusians and Trappists, employed a very full version of tonsure, shaving the head entirely bald and keeping only a narrow ring of short hair, sometimes called “the monastic crown” (see “Roman tonsure”, above), from the time of entrance into the monastic novitiate for all monks, whether destined for service as priests or brothers. Some monastic orders and individual monasteries still maintain the tradition of a monastic tonsure.
The fuller form of clerical tonsure led to the wearing of a skull cap in church to keep the head warm. This skull cap, called a zuchetto, is still worn by the Pope (in white), Cardinals (in red) and bishops (in purple) both during and outside of formal religious ceremonies. Priests may wear a simple black zuchetto, only outside of religious services, though this is almost never seen except as a practical garment used for warmth by some monks. Some priests who held special titles (certain ranks of monsignori and some canons, for instance) formerly wore black zuchettos with red or purple piping, but this too has fallen out of use except in a few, extremely rare cases.
**Eastern Christianity
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**Clerical tonsure **of an Orthodox reader.Today in Eastern Orthodoxy and in the Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite, there are three types of tonsure: baptismal, monastic, and clerical. It always consists of the cutting of four locks of hair in a cruciform pattern: at the front of head as the celebrant says “In the Name of the Father”, at the back of head at the words “and the Son”, and on either side of the head at the words “and the Holy Spirit”. In all cases, the hair is allowed to grow back; the tonsure as such is not adopted as a hairstyle.
Baptismal tonsure is performed during the rite of Holy Baptism as a first sacrificial offering by the newly baptized. This tonsure is always performed, whether the one being baptized is an infant or an adult.
Monastic tonsure (of which there are three grades: Rassophore, Stavrophore and the Great Schema), is the rite of initiation into the monastic state, symbolic of cutting off of self-will. Orthodox monks traditionally never cut their hair or beards after receiving the monastic tonsure as a sign of the consecration of their lives to **God **(reminiscent of the Vow of the Nazirite).
Clerical tonsure is the equivalent of the “first tonsure” in the Latin church. It is done immediately prior to ordination to the minor order of reader but is not repeated at subsequent ordinations.[10] This led to a once common usage that one was, for instance, “tonsured a reader”, although technically the tonsure occurs prior to the prayer of ordination within the ordination rite.
:compcoff: Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure
Western Christianity
In the Latin or Western Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, “first tonsure” was, in medieval times, the rite of inducting someone into the clergy and qualifying him for the civil benefits then enjoyed by clerics.
Tonsure was a prerequisite for receiving the minor and major orders. Failing to maintain tonsure was the equivalent of attempting to abandon one’s clerical state, and in the 1917 Code of Canon Law, any cleric in minor orders (or simply tonsured) who did not resume the tonsure within a month after being warned by his Ordinary, lost the clerical state. Over time, the appearance of tonsure varied, ending up for non-monastic clergy as generally consisting of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair at first tonsure in the Sign of the Cross and in wearing a bare spot on the back of the head which varied according to the degree of orders. It was not supposed to be less than the size of a communicant’s host, even for a tonsuratus, someone simply tonsured, and the approximate size for a priest’s tonsure was the size of a priest’s host. Countries that were not Catholic had exceptions to this rule, especially in the English-speaking world.
Apart from this general clerical tonsure, some Western Rite monastic orders, for example Carthusians and Trappists, employed a very full version of tonsure, shaving the head entirely bald and keeping only a narrow ring of short hair, sometimes called “the monastic crown” (see “Roman tonsure”, above), from the time of entrance into the monastic novitiate for all monks, whether destined for service as priests or brothers. Some monastic orders and individual monasteries still maintain the tradition of a monastic tonsure.
The fuller form of clerical tonsure led to the wearing of a skull cap in church to keep the head warm. This skull cap, called a zuchetto, is still worn by the Pope (in white), Cardinals (in red) and bishops (in purple) both during and outside of formal religious ceremonies. Priests may wear a simple black zuchetto, only outside of religious services, though this is almost never seen except as a practical garment used for warmth by some monks. Some priests who held special titles (certain ranks of monsignori and some canons, for instance) formerly wore black zuchettos with red or purple piping, but this too has fallen out of use except in a few, extremely rare cases.
**Eastern Christianity
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**Clerical tonsure **of an Orthodox reader.Today in Eastern Orthodoxy and in the Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite, there are three types of tonsure: baptismal, monastic, and clerical. It always consists of the cutting of four locks of hair in a cruciform pattern: at the front of head as the celebrant says “In the Name of the Father”, at the back of head at the words “and the Son”, and on either side of the head at the words “and the Holy Spirit”. In all cases, the hair is allowed to grow back; the tonsure as such is not adopted as a hairstyle.
Baptismal tonsure is performed during the rite of Holy Baptism as a first sacrificial offering by the newly baptized. This tonsure is always performed, whether the one being baptized is an infant or an adult.
Monastic tonsure (of which there are three grades: Rassophore, Stavrophore and the Great Schema), is the rite of initiation into the monastic state, symbolic of cutting off of self-will. Orthodox monks traditionally never cut their hair or beards after receiving the monastic tonsure as a sign of the consecration of their lives to **God **(reminiscent of the Vow of the Nazirite).
Clerical tonsure is the equivalent of the “first tonsure” in the Latin church. It is done immediately prior to ordination to the minor order of reader but is not repeated at subsequent ordinations.[10] This led to a once common usage that one was, for instance, “tonsured a reader”, although technically the tonsure occurs prior to the prayer of ordination within the ordination rite.
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:compcoff: Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure
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. . . thank You Sweet Spirit of our Holy God+
. . . thank you Blessed Virgin Mary our Mother+
. . . thank You Sweet Spirit of our Holy God+
. . . thank you Blessed Virgin Mary our Mother+
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Friar_David_O.Carm
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Just a side note.
Carmelites are not and have never in their history been monastics.
This group, the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming is formed under the local bishop and not affiliated with either of the Carmelite Orders.
Carmelites are not and have never in their history been monastics.
This group, the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming is formed under the local bishop and not affiliated with either of the Carmelite Orders.
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Edmundus1581
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You might like this…
Adore Te Devote, sung by a young, tonsured friar.
Unfortunately the post doesn’t identify the people or location. In the comments someone says “they are friars from the order called “Toca de Assis” from Sao Paulo, Brazil.”
I once posted this on facebook under the description “Heaven on earth”.
Greetings from Adelaide!
Edmundus
Adore Te Devote, sung by a young, tonsured friar.
Unfortunately the post doesn’t identify the people or location. In the comments someone says “they are friars from the order called “Toca de Assis” from Sao Paulo, Brazil.”
I once posted this on facebook under the description “Heaven on earth”.
Greetings from Adelaide!
Edmundus
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It’s very nice to see that the tonsure is still used! It’s such a visible reminder of one’s vocation and of the traditions of our Church. Hopefully more traditional practices continue be used or revived into the daily life or the whole Church.
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