Cassock is so chic

[Phemie]

I find the cassock very ‘chic’ and stylish! Anyone sharing the same feeling with me?

When I was growing up the last parish priest to wear the cassock was often wearing it on his tractor, tilling the fields behind the rectory. “Chic” is the last thing I would have called it. “Utilitarian”, rather like “fatigues” in the military, is how I’d describe it.

 

[TK421]

‘Everything old becomes new’.

I always thought they were cool looking too. Not the embellished ones, but the plain black ones that have a slim cut against the body. The only thing you need to add is to have the priest do powerlifting at the gym to give him ripped biceps, triceps, and latissimus dorsi. Like how in some Renaissance or Baroque paintings, the Church fathers are wearing a toga (or something like it?), and then have ripped arms and chests. St Jerome or St Augustine sometimes look like they could bench press a Volvo.

Then as you move on in the centuries, sacred art of more recent saints becomes more subtle, yet not necessarily any less powerful. The image of Pope St JP2 with the Blessed Virgin is one of the most beautiful works I have ever seen. It has such compassion.





It is good that we have the internet, so as laity and servants of the Church, we are able to discuss these pressing and urgent matters.

 

[Saints_Alive]

This may interest some here…

stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/who-is-that-dashing-holy-man-ripping-up-the-ice/article_7d65ea36-862a-5967-a6d3-6ac93ff6087d.html

( you can skip the survey)

 

[otjm]

Pretty much my experience with Benedictines. I’ve been out with monks in Rome that sometimes were their habit, or their street clothes and of course in Rome a monastic habit warrants nary a sideways glance. The priests of our abbey will usually wear a shirt and roman collar when going out of the monastery, with slacks and a jacket or weather-appropriate attire (this being winter in Canada of course). Some wear a short of short monastic tunic with hood that comes down to just below the belt, and trousers. As monks have told me, habits are not always the most practical attire outside the monastery, and even within the monastery they have work uniforms (shirt and trousers) for doing manual jobs. I don’t believe monks own any cassocks either! Their “formal” wear is their choir wear, that is, their habits.

I remember, maybe 20 years back, coming up to a cross walk in downtown Portland and lokking over, to my great surprise, to find Brother Martin, the porter at Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey (Trappist) standing there waiting for the light to walk. He was dressed in a pair of faded jeans and a work shirt.

My comment to him: “Oh, I see they let you out for a bit!” He laughed, said he was in town to buy supplies, and off he went.

 

[otjm]

When I was young, which was back in the 1950’s, my parents were friends with a number of priests, and they would have one over for Sunday dinner.

Every one of the priests who came for dinner came in a black suit with a Roman collar. For those who have no memory of pre-Vatican 2, it was not all that different… at least here in Oregon.

 

[Phemie]

When I was young, which was back in the 1950’s, my parents were friends with a number of priests, and they would have one over for Sunday dinner.

Every one of the priests who came for dinner came in a black suit with a Roman collar. For those who have no memory of pre-Vatican 2, it was not all that different… at least here in Oregon.

It was the same where I lived. The two priests we had regularly in our home were the diocesan priest who was our Pastor from 1923-1958 and the Redemptorist priest who taught at the minor seminary at the other end of the province. Both these men were in black suits with roman collars, not cassocks, whenever they visited. The two successive pastors of our parish both wore cassocks.

 

[Aran_Houlihan]

I always liked when priests wore cassocks. Our young priest wears one, and it makes him look very holy (sorry, but I cannot get the correct sentiment out).

I do to I have even been round town in my cassock

 

[godisgood77]

I find the cassock very ‘chic’ and stylish! Anyone sharing the same feeling with me?

I think that whenever a priest’s attire comes in to question, we are focusing on the wrong thing and should refocus.

God alone,
Dan

 

[Mosestheblack]

‘Everything old becomes new’.

I always thought they were cool looking too. Not the embellished ones, but the plain black ones that have a slim cut against the body. The only thing you need to add is to have the priest do powerlifting at the gym to give him ripped biceps, triceps, and latissimus dorsi. Like how in some Renaissance or Baroque paintings, the Church fathers are wearing a toga (or something like it?), and then have ripped arms and chests. St Jerome or St Augustine sometimes look like they could bench press a Volvo.

Then as you move on in the centuries, sacred art of more recent saints becomes more subtle, yet not necessarily any less powerful. The image of Pope St JP2 with the Blessed Virgin is one of the most beautiful works I have ever seen. It has such compassion.

http://www.catholic.org/files/images/ins_news/2011050223john_paul_ii_in_marys_arms,_250x376.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/56/d8/bf/56d8bfc2b24338c1966b76fe0130eadf.jpg

It is good that we have the internet, so as laity and servants of the Church, we are able to discuss these pressing and urgent matters.

Where is that first picture from?