Carnival in Brazil - acceptable?

[dominikus28]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

 

[Brywan]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

Carnival is NOT a liturgical celebration of the Church. Neither is Mardi Gras…Neither is the St. Patrick’s Day Celebration where people drink green beer and dye the rivers green…Neither is the many-days plus shopping extravaganza which is now associated with the Christ-Mass–

These are cultural traditions, which, in the 21st century, the church has no disciplinary control over----

By the way, I have a priest-friend who is Brazilian–and he hates Carnival…

 

[Dale_M]

I’m not sure I would call Carnival a religious festival. Rather it is a celebration of earthly delights the day before the penitential season of Lent. My understanding is that the name “carnival” comes from the Latin for “farewell to meat” or “farewell to flesh.” Carnival goers are partying up while they can, before they sacrifice for 40 days.

 

[puzzleannie]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

says who
carnival has no connection with any religious feast or season whatever except the accident of timing, and the long ago forgotten acknowledgement of the time before Lent.
Bishops in Brazil and elsewhere have spoken out loud, clear and long about the abuses connected with such festivities, especially the sacrilege and blasphemy of those who dare to link them with the church or any religious feast.

 

[momor]

Carnival goers are partying up while they can, before they sacrifice for 40 days.

I doubt if Carnival goers are doing any sacrificing during Lent.

 

[ora_pro_nobis]

There has been a long tradition of the days before Lent being rather wild (though not on the scale of Carnival) - most European countries have some sort of carnival.

In Germany there is the celebration of Fasching, where everyone dresses up in masks and there is music and feasting - this tradition goes back hundreds of years.

In Britain, where many old customs were swept away in the Reformation, the feast of Shrove Tuesday somehow survived. I remember as a child there would be pancake races (people would make a pancake in a frying pan and then run a race, tossing the pancake as they ran). The idea was that one would use up the eggs and other nice ingredients before the day of fasting on Ash Wednesday. We still celebrate Shrove Tuesday, but it now has the more prosaic name of “pancake day”

 

[Padraig1972]

This festival, yeah…i call it that or any other festivities like St Patricks Day should not be connceted to the church at all, since it is a completely thing of its own with beer drinking, blasphemy and a totally uncorteous behaviour that should not even be linked to the Catholic Church at any point.

 

[Lrabbitt]

Carnival - Mardi Gras - St. Patrick’s Day (US) - Cinquo de Mayo - Hallowe’en. All “pagan” in the sense of abandonment of holy circumspection, reverence and respect. Marked by excesses in food, drink, dress (or lack thereof), egregious behavior. Not to be confused with holy observance or celebration.

 

[Christiano]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

Hi, the Carnival in Brazil isn’t a religious festival. It’s not considered a religious event by anyone in Brazil. On the contrary, it’s considered a pagan feast.

Many Christians are against the carnival in Brazil, especially because of women who parade half-naked or completely naked, have their body only covered by the paint of drawings that are painted into their skin.

Although this year, one of the samba schools from São Paulo, Pérola Negra (Black Pearl), didn’t have any kind of nudity during its parade, since the school dedicated its “samba enredo” (the song they sing during the parade) to Abraham, the father of Judaism and Christianity.

The theme was suggested by the marketing director of Pérola Negra, Jairo Roizen, who’s Jewish.

André Machado, member of the samba school, says the theme was approved by most of the members of Pérola Negra. Among its members, the samba school has Catholics, Umbanda followers, evangelicals, mormons and spiritists.

The lyrics of the “samba enredo” asks for a divine light to turn “my samba into a procession.”

According to Machado, by the morals of today, Abraham would be far from being a saint, since, according to the Bible, he had an affair with Agar, a servant of Sarah, his wife, for God’s promise of a male heir to come true.

Many people considered the veto to nudity based on the Bible moralism or more likely a publicity stunt. But that’s an exception, not the rule.

The parade of Pérola Negra can be seen here (as I said, there’s no nudity, so I think the video is OK for the board).

 

[Nelka]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

Not the way they dress up the little girls.

 

[caoindealbhan]

I wouldn’t recommend it to my children. I think it is an example of a nice secular celebration that has changed over the years into an excess of inappropriate behavior. On the television it appears a bit dangerous. I wouldn’t recommend attending.

 

[Nelka]

I wouldn’t recommend it to my children. I think it is an example of a nice secular celebration that has changed over the years into an excess of inappropriate behavior. On the television it appears a bit dangerous. I wouldn’t recommend attending.

This is what has happened to so many celebrations in the world now.

In England, certain celebrations have just turned into a binge drinking nightmare and nobody really cares what they are celebrating.

 

[wworld]

I wouldn’t say attending the carnival would be mortal, but probably venial, as most people are immodestly dressed…

 

[karow]

I was just wondering, since the famous Carnival in Brazil is basically a religious festival (before Lent I believe), why is it acceptable for women to be dressed so scantily and immodestly?
Has anyone ever wondered this before? Has any Bishop ever addressed this before?

Have you ever been to Carnival? If you had you’d know that it’s not just the ladies who are buck nekkid.

Here’s my question: Why is it always the way women are dressed that gets judged? Wait, forget about it. I just about already know what the replies will be.