Cassocks: when was the last time you saw one?

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The Sunday before Easter!! We were at our best friends home for a birthday party and a Priest (that we had attended college with~before he became a Priest!) came by for supper and visiting!!! 😃 😛 😃 He is such a wonderful Priest and it was a true blessing to be able to spend time “chatting” with him (and you get to ask all the questions you always wanted to ask a Priest!!😛 )! It was truely a wonderful way to begin Holy Week!
 
Eilish_Maura said:
Just curious - how vital is wearing a cassock?
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Not sure if it is “vital”.

But it certainly is a sign that the church is recovering from the disaster of the last 40 years.

Certainly enough to make my Generation and younger smile and of course make the progressives and modernists scowl…(hopefully not scowl enough that their dentures fall out)
 
SenorSalsa said:
never seen one in my 18 years of living, cept for on the TV and internet

This will be me after oridination. Quite frankly the cassock>>>>>>>clerics. and the biretta is just plain sweet.
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The cassock sounds good. But leave out the biretta except for ceremony. It’s funny looking. I don’t know why, just my opinion.

By the way, clerics are not the only ones who wear cassocks, so do many communties of religious Brothers, especially communities that were founded by Jesuits or by secular priests.

We have habits in my parish. The religious in our parish deliberately use the title Brother to avoid distinctions among them. You have to ask the Brothers if you want to go to conferssion, which one is a priest. Only two of the seven are. The superior is a theologian, not a priest. It’s funny when people come from outside the parish to visit. The call everyone Father and everyone answers.

When they’re not in habits they wear Roman collars. Sometimes it’s too hot for habits.

JR 🙂
 
JReducation said:
The cassock sounds good. But leave out the biretta except for ceremony. It’s funny looking. I don’t know why, just my opinion.
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Possibly because they are so rarely seen anymore they appear bizarre. This would not be the case if they were commonplace. I remember the first time I saw anyone wearing a cassock, my jaw hit the ground. I thought I was seeing a vision.

And I’ve still never seen a biretta outside of the movies or the internet.
 
Lepanto said:
Possibly because they are so rarely seen anymore they appear bizarre. This would not be the case if they were commonplace. I remember the first time I saw anyone wearing a cassock, my jaw hit the ground. I thought I was seeing a vision.

And I’ve still never seen a biretta outside of the movies or the internet.
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i would also wear a zuchetto if i could, since priests are technically entitled to a black zucchetto(outside of Mass, not during), however that is probably even rarer than the biretta.

If i did that, the zucchetto would be my more often choice, mostly becuase it wouldnt be as big and cumbersome
 
At the Latin Mass I sometimes go to the priest doesnt wear a cassock but he has a beretta. If I were a priest I would get one of those floppy brimmed pastoral hats that you sometimes would see old italian priests in movies wearing. a zuchetto would be cool too.
 
zagjames said:
At the Latin Mass I sometimes go to the priest doesnt wear a cassock but he has a beretta. If I were a priest I would get one of those floppy brimmed pastoral hats that you sometimes would see old italian priests in movies wearing. a zuchetto would be cool too.
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I guess I’m more oriented toward the mendicant and monastic look.

I prefer the tunic with the capuche, nothing else. I like that simple look.

That’s why I like the cassock without anyting else. It’s very simple.

JR 🙂
 
SenorSalsa said:
i would also wear a zuchetto if i could, since priests are technically entitled to a black zucchetto(outside of Mass, not during), however that is probably even rarer than the biretta.

If i did that, the zucchetto would be my more often choice, mostly becuase it wouldnt be as big and cumbersome
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Search around on here, if you would, for other threads on this subject. One such thread included the patient and “fatherly” advice from a man who had “been there” - in seminary - on how other priests and the bishop in the diocese views seminarians who were big on these things.
 
PaixGioiaAmor said:
Search around on here, if you would, for other threads on this subject. One such thread included the patient and “fatherly” advice from a man who had “been there” - in seminary - on how other priests and the bishop in the diocese views seminarians who were big on these things.
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Not well at all. The focus of a future priest is the Church and ministry to the faithful, not the externals. Secular priests are focussed on serving God’s people through the sacraments, preaching and teaching. Vocation Directors don’t look too fondly on candidates who are focussed on the garb. In some dioceses seminarians are not allowed to wear cassocks or Roman collars, they must be deacons.

If you’re thinking about a religious order, forget it. If you told a vocation director how much you love the Carmelite habit (for example) it would be the kiss of death. They’re looking for people who want to be religious, not even priests. They want religious who want to live this lifestyle, regardless of the form of dress.

Male religious don’t allow their candidates or postulants to wear religious garb. They must be novices. The novitiate is only after the candidate has completed college and one to two years of postulancy.
 
Lepanto said:
When was the last time that you saw a diocesan priest (in or outside of Mass) or an altar boy wearing one?
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There are three Altar Boys at our twinned Parishes (myself and two teenagers) that are now using cassocks and surplices when we serve. We initially bought them (I donated them) when we had our Tenebrae service. I thought it would look better to have the Tenebrae servers dressed in black to show some semblance of mourning for the occasion. While I was ordering them for us, I figured I would foot the bill of the surplices while I was at it. We will only wear them if we are the only ones serving. If someone doesn’t have a surplice, we stick to our usual white albs. I like to call my cassock and surplice my 3rd jersey - like a baseball player!

Anyways, the cassocks and surplices made their return to our Parish last Saturday. The EMHC’s, priests and deacon were not expecting us to come out with them on. When we did, they were amazed, but impressed. They loved them - and so did the congregation when they saw them. We got a few compliments saying how good they looked on us. They were warm (and mine was a bit tight :D) but overall it was cool. I remarked that it was the first time since 1990 that I wore a cassock and surplice to serve Mass. That brought back a lot of memories.
 
I am surpised that most of you have not seen cassocks in a while. I see them quite frequently. Maybe they are just making a come back here in the Archdiocese of Washigton. I must say they look sweet.
 
Lepanto said:
Most of the priests that I know wear Dockers and Polo shirts. Are you suggesting that dressing in clothes indistinguishable from other men makes them “cool and more orthodox”???
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This wasn’t asked of me, but I’ll chime in because I often hear this remark.

To be honest, in my experience, the answer is “no - it doesn’t make them cool and orthodox, but my experience has been that men who wear their clerics and cassocks as opposed to civies when they are out in public do tend to be more orthodox”. The clerics and cassock are the effects, not the cause, of their orthodoxy.

Same thing with sisters/nuns and habits.

Don’t know if that is what others have noticed, but in my Diocese I have noticed that the clothes a priest wears is a very reliable sign of his orthodoxy and faithfulness to the Magisterium.
 
Actually, the last priest we had who regularly wore a cassock on Church property, was also known for being seen in shorts and an Ocean Pacific tee shirt, headed out to the lake to go scuba diving

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agr4028 said:
Actually, the last priest we had who regularly wore a cassock on Church property, was also known for being seen in shorts and an Ocean Pacific tee shirt, headed out to the lake to go scuba diving

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Well I wouldn’t much expect him to scuba dive in a cassock! 😉
 
Layp3rs0n said:
I am surpised that most of you have not seen cassocks in a while. I see them quite frequently. Maybe they are just making a come back here in the Archdiocese of Washigton. I must say they look sweet.
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Give my love to the Archdiocese of Washington DC. I worked for them for seven years. I loved it. 👍
 
the first and only time I have seen in person a diocesan priest wearing the cassock was during a visit to a southern California parish in the Diocese of Orange. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised!
 
You know, I visited the Vatican just last year. I can’t remember for the life of me if i saw many priests in cassocks, except at mass.

There may have been and I may have not been paying attention to it.

When I worked in Washington DC I saw many from the Diocese of Arlington, which is right next door.

When I visited St. Charles Borromeo Seminary I saw the secular seminarians wearing them, not the religious. The professed religious wore habits and their postulants wore secular clothes. There are some religious who study at St. Charles and at Mt. St. Mary’s too. I didn’t see any cassocks at the Washington House of Studies which is their seminary.

JR 🙂
 
Tuesday, March 25th 2008 6:30 pm, Day of Rememberance of the Unborn, Fredericksburg TX. One of our now 5 seminarians was home for spring break from Guadalupe Seminary in Denton NE. He’s also a member of our local KC Council and led our procession as we prayed a scriptural rosary. He is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter who are the folks you send your local priest to for instruction on saying the extraordinary form of the Mass.😃 👍 😃

Our Parish now has 5 active vocations in seminary and a very near and dear “adopted” seminarian who served his internship with us last year and will be ordained on May 17th. Please Please Please join us in prayer for these courageous, humble men. Currently they are attending NAC in Rome, Assumption San Antonio, Westin School of Theology, Guadalupe in Denton, and Josephinum in Columbus OH. I saw 3 of the 5 over the holidays and What a Joy to see prayers answered. 👍
 
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