Cassocks: when was the last time you saw one?

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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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Couple o years ago.
When a local priest walked in the church wearing a cassock.

He wears it all the time.
 
Our pastor has been very faithful in gently restoring ortodoxy in our parish. One way is that he frequently wears his cassock.So do all our seminarians and our newest priest. It is a visual comfort to me, knowing we are being shepherded by someone who is striving to be faithful to the magisterium. He provides this example in many other ways, as well.

Peace,

Kelly
 
We also have to know whether the priest in our parish is a secular priest or a religious.

Religious Orders and Religious Congregations have their own rules about dress. Most have a habit, many use the cassock, because they never had a habit. Some Congregations wear a roman collar, becasuse they are not allowed to wear a cassock.

I have a very good friend who is a Marianist Brother. The Marianists only ordain enough men to serve the needs of the religious community and of their schools. But heir founder forbade the Brothers who are priests to wear cassocks. The have to wear what all the Brothers wear. The founder also established that the Society would not wear a habit, but would wear what the lay person wears. The arrangement that they have reached is that those Brothers who are priests too wear a Roman collar when they go out to help out in parishes or if the bishop invites them to run a parish for him.

Among the mendicants and monastics, you can’t tell who is a priest, because they all wear the same habit and they all wear a Roman collar.

It’s not such a big deal to these communities nor to their parishioners. They’re used to it.

JR 🙂
 
I see them everyday. When I visit Grotto, the priests and altar boys wear them… When I go to and serve at St. Cyril’s, some of the priests wear them, and all the older altar boys (myself included) wear them (the young ones, ages 3-10ish, wear albs). And at home, a number of the priests in the order I live with wear them.

And for the person who asked about the altar servers, they are all boys. A girl in a cassock would look… odd. 🙂
 
My pastor wears one every Sunday.

I also go sometimes to the FSSP church in St Catharines and i see them all of the time.

My spiritual director wore one every day when we were in Israel. He wore one for the Easter celebrations.

Oh! How blessed we are!
 
We have a seminarian at our parish and he is the MC for some of the Masses and he wears one. Also, we had a parish mission last year and the visiting priest wore one
 
Every Sunday! I <3 the FSSP! Priest in cassock outside Mass, and at High Mass, six or eight altar boys in cassock and surplice.
 
Every Sunday, and sometimes during the week, if I make it to a weekday Mass.
 
I was at a Marian conference in St. Louis in January. There were several priests there who wore cassocks. There were also nuns in full habits. It was so wonderfully uplifting!!
 
aurora77 said:
I was at a Marian conference in St. Louis in January. There were several priests there who wore cassocks. There were also nuns in full habits. It was so wonderfully uplifting!!
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I agree with you…it is uplifting for sure! I believe it makes me smile inside to see the sacred robes that witness to our wonderful faith that we have. It also adds an aura of respect 9for me anyway) for a consecrated person. Although i do respect all consecrated people, whether in clerical clothing or not, but there is always an added respect that they would take the time to wear what they believe in and consecrated their lives to.

Like a married man who wears his wedding band. Mine does not but it gives me a fuzzy feeling to see it on a man who testifies to his own vows.
 
One thing that really stood out to me at the conference was what a great witness a priest in his cassock (or a nun in her habit) truly is. Our group usually has breakfast in the hotel restaurant on Sunday morning. While we were down there, a couple of the presenting priests were there, too, in their cassocks and it just made me feel good. Even now, when the Church and her priests are so maligned in our world, these men gave such an outstanding witness to our faith.

During one of the presentations, a very elderly man came and sat at the end of my row, a few places down from me. He was using a walker and was so bent over he couldn’t even sit up straight in the chair. I looked over at him and saw his cassock–he was an old priest! It just really touched my heart to see him. I saw God in him; I really understood what it means that we are made in His image and likeness. I’m tearing up now at the memory!
 
aurora77 said:
One thing that really stood out to me at the conference was what a great witness a priest in his cassock (or a nun in her habit) truly is. Our group usually has breakfast in the hotel restaurant on Sunday morning. While we were down there, a couple of the presenting priests were there, too, in their cassocks and it just made me feel good. Even now, when the Church and her priests are so maligned in our world, these men gave such an outstanding witness to our faith.
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I think this is what strikes me, as well, when I do see priests in their collar or cassock or a sister in her habit. Athough I know that it doesn’t make a religious any more or less spiritual, holy or better when wearing these things, there is something very comforting and uplifting when I do see it. Especially now when it seems like there there is no one in the religious life, even when I live an area where there is a high percentage of Catholics.

When I was a child, I loved visiting the Catholic hospital my father worked at as a doctor. The sisters there were still wearing their habits back then (although most are now in civilian clothing) and seeing the hospital filled with noticable sisters and priests made it feel like a “holy” place for me as a little girl. Seeing them inspired me to want to become a sister like them. I was their “Little Sister” whenever I saw them or whenever they’d asked my father how their “Little Sister” was doing. God has since taken me down a different path and I am now married, although I discerned it up through college.

Again, I know it doesn’t make them any better or worse, but I really do feel comforted and inspired whenever I do see these religious in their garb. This is something I didn’t realize until after I started seeing them again dressed in their habits, cassocks, etc.
 
Easter Vigil Mass…our seminarian wears his when he’s home for mass. I want to get my son one in the future.
 
I see them on a fairly regular basis-- granted I go to a university that has a seminary on campus. So, there are a few sems that wear them all the time (I think b/c they are part of a religious order), and then you see all the sems in them on special occasions for Mass and stuff.

Although, my priest back home at my parish wears a cassock quite often as well.

So, yeah. Not too rare for me.
 
My parish priest and our diocesan seminarian deacon wear them all the time. It’s great!
 
One of our priests in residence regularly wears his cassock, particularly on Sundays when he travels to San Rafael to celebrate a Latin Mass. Our other two, younger priests do not wear cassocks, but do wear their clerical collars.
Either is fine with me.
 
My priest, always in cassock whether in the Church, at Mass or outside. Our pastor is Polish, and he puts his cassock on I beleive during Mass and confession, otherwise he’s just in black with Roman collar.

However, I think there is a prejudice in the United States. I know several seminarians who don’t mind the cassock, but some feel a pressure not to where anything. I would donate all my clothing except for my pj’s, under clothing, and one or two changes of street clothes, and wear only cassock.

All altar boys are in cassock/surplice. No female servers.

I feel though, just from speaking with all my seminarian friends, I feel the next generation of priests (my generation) will be bringing back the cassock and habit, if not in suit and Roman collar. Its just a matter of time.

It’s such a rarity here in the US, it was shocking when I saw a priest in a cassock. Until about 4 years ago, when I was 16, I had never seen an actual priest in a cassock in my life in person. He was a Jesuit and when he said hello, I blanked and froze, I was literally in shock. I’ve never seen either in the US a nun/sister in full habit (head to toe, waist-long veil, whimple etc.). The only time I’ve seen a nun in full habit was when I was in Poland, and a priest in cassock on the street was only in Poland.
 
orgel_maestro said:
However, I think there is a prejudice in the United States. I know several seminarians who don’t mind the cassock, but some feel a pressure not to where anything. I would donate all my clothing except for my pj’s, under clothing, and one or two changes of street clothes, and wear only cassock.

I feel though, just from speaking with all my seminarian friends, I feel the next generation of priests (my generation) will be bringing back the cassock and habit, if not in suit and Roman collar. Its just a matter of time.
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In many seminaries, cassocks are still forbidden or discouraged. Seminarians who have them (and most of them do) would be branded as traditionalists if they wore them publicly. However, once they get ordained, many younger priests wear them. Even birettas are coming back – just look for one on eBay and see how many are bidding on it.
 
We had a priest from South Africa as pastor of our parish. He wore a cassock. He had a white cassock with a red belt (cincture?) He said this signified loyalty to the Pope. He bought black and red cassocks for the altar servers. It gave me great joy to see Father striding across the parking lot toward the church before Mass. He always appeared to be so happy to be a priest.
 
never seen one in my 18 years of living, cept for on the TV and internet
Cavaille-Coll said:
A priest in a nearby parish often wears one around the church grounds, sometimes with a biretta. He’s one of the younger priests in the diocese.
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This will be me after oridination. Quite frankly the cassock>>>>>>>clerics. and the biretta is just plain sweet.
 
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