Cassock and surplice while praying the liturgy of the hours

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Horacio said:
You introduced an extraneous variable (“cheap”) into the discussion in order to sell your preference of a cassock/surplice as if no one would notice. You failed.

Then you made the rude “habit” comment to disguise the fact you failed. Albs (tunics) long predate “Dominican habits.” While it doesn’t look like a Dominican habit, if there was a resemblance it would be in the reverse – the habit resembling the alb.
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Pray tell, what are the criteria by which you judge a word to be extraneous? Am I allowed a certain number of adjectives only?
 
triumphguy said:
I think the Cassock and surplice is a good look:

But I’m sure the hair shirt would be more efficacious.
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Because the cassock is priestly (and thus male) garb and the surplice a vestment, I personally think that it’s wrong for a female to wear either one in a Catholic setting. Neither are analogous to the universal alb.

FWIW that’s a cotta not a surplice.

The hair shirt is an interesting idea but I think it was Saint Thomas Aquinas was the one that said the first prerequisite to efficacious prayer is being physically comfortable.
 
Horacio said:
Because the cassock is priestly (and thus male) garb and the surplice a vestment, I personally think that it’s wrong for a female to wear either one in a Catholic setting. Neither are analogous to the universal alb.

FWIW that’s a cotta not a surplice.

The hair shirt is an interesting idea but I think it was Saint Thomas Aquinas was the one that said the first prerequisite to efficacious prayer is being physically comfortable.
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St. Thomas Aquinas was fat - he was a little too much into comfort.😉

For prayer you could do worse than follow St. Francis.
 
triumphguy said:
St. Thomas Aquinas was fat - he was a little too much into comfort.

For prayer you could do worse than follow St. Francis.
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Actually Thomas was rail-thin until ordered to eat by his superiors. He is a great saint of the Church who made a remarkable contribution.

Francis was not the only one to wear a hair shirt – not by a long shot.
 
Horacio said:
Actually Thomas was rail-thin until ordered to eat by his superiors. He is a great saint of the Church who made a remarkable contribution.

Francis was not the only one to wear a hair shirt – not by a long shot.
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It was the rolling in snow I was thinking about:p
 
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