Chapel Veils

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mullenpm said:
I truly believe the debate is getting silly. Women covered their heads when they entered the House of God - not everytime they prayed in private in their own home; or riding a bicycle.:rolleyes:

Covering your head when entering a church was a sign of respect for the Blessed Sacrament.:byzsoc:
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The thread got “silly” when you stated that women MUST cover their head. :rolleyes:

It got worse when TradionalWay tried to say that if a woman is praying, her head should be covered.

Some of us just want to know if that is the case, how does it work.

What started as a thread on wearing a veil has turned, once again, into a “who is more traditional” thread. It happens pretty much every time.

And I still don’t get how putting a Kleenex on your head is a sign of respect for anything. 🤷
 
I’ve heard of women who upon forgetting their veil rush to the restroom and come back with a paper towel on their head. 👍
 
Wow I did not mean for this to be a silly argument! I think I was mostly wondering if the return to more conservative ways was something local on nationally.

As and individual I am slow to change, took me 15 years to embrace all of the Vll changes. I have never been comfortable with contemporary church design and some of the lax/new age sort of services. But I do enjoy some of the less traditional things such as previous blood at mass, singing and music and symbolistic gestures during mass.

As a parish we have done a complete 360 in past few years. It could just be a new priest and a new young bishop. While I love some of the changes back to conservatism I am wondering if there is some kind of in between some where?

I am all for covering the head (although I will not go back to using a tissue which I remember using in a pinch as a child). I think I am even OK with using the communion rail. But I struggle with 11 alter servers, no previous blood, homilies that are lectures, lack of singing from the hart and strangely enough holding hands during the Our Father.

We have lost some of the spirit of our church community and it is sort of sad.
 
Ann_Theresa said:
I I am now considering making a chapel veil so my question is: Are chapel veils required to be made of lace or a translucent fabric? While they are beautiful I am thinking that something a little more simple such as a solid thin cotton or silk would be more my speed
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since there are no requirements as to what you wear or don’t wear on your head, there are no requirements on how to make it, so purchase what works, is easiest to use and gives the result you want

don’t know what this has to do with how Mass is celebrated in your area but congratulations sounds like you have found a good place to be
 
What Puzzleannie said.

But a piece of traditionalism we seem to forget is that women generally “covered their head” ie, wore a hat or scarf almost all the time up until sometime soon after WWII. When shampooing wasn’t as frequent, hair was longer, and hairstyles were more complicated, women wore headcovering to keep their hair clean and their “do” in place. So all those women with headcoverings in Mass weren’t necessarily more devout–they just walked into the church with the same hat, scarf, etc they’d left the house in to keep their hair from blowing around.

Without a pin or comb to keep a mantilla in place, it seems more of a distraction to the woman and those around her, than simply wearing a scarf or simple hat (like a cloche or beret so they don’t get in anyone’s way). As the weather gets cooler in the US, now is the time to start experimenting with headcoverings if you feel inclined. Just leave on whatever you put on your head to stay warm or un-windblown. 😉
 
Phemie said:
We didn’t stop doing it until we were told we could.

Canon law isn’t written in stone and there were many changes to the law between 1917 and 1983 (just as there have been changes between 1983 and 2011). The laws on fasting changed, the laws on frequency of communion in one day changed, the laws about observing Holy Days of Obligation changed, the law on the timing for Mass changed. I believe that the law on covering our heads changed too, probably inserted in another document in the same way that the rule for the timing of Masses was changed by a 1953 document called CONCERNING THE DISCIPLINE TO BE OBSERVED WITH RESPECT TO THE EUCHARISTIC FAST.
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The law regarding covering did not change until 1983.

However I do not doubt that you were misinformed by some person in a position of authority.

After all, many people remember being told by priests and religious in the 1970s that masturbation is not a sin.
 
Will_S said:
The law regarding covering did not change until 1983.

However I do not doubt that you were misinformed by some person in a position of authority.

After all, many people remember being told by priests and religious in the 1970s that masturbation is not a sin.
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The Canon Law of 1983 did NOT abrogate the Law of 1917, it just did not mention it. Would you agree?
 
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