Clothes at Mass

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My family goes to two parishes. One has a 9:30 am half Latin half English mass and the other parish has mass throughout the day and it is more liberal. When we can make the 9:30, we do. The priest at that parish mentioned one Sunday during his sermon about clothing, and now every Sunday he mentions how much better or worse people are doing with the clothing. There are only about 50 people at this mass, so he can look at everyone’s clothing and mention it all. It is really nice and only a few people ignor the priest. These are the people who come simply because it is a mass at 9:30 and not because it is half Latin. We cannot go to the other masses at this parish because they are all in Spanish, but at least every other Sunday or so we are able to get a breath of fresh air.😃
 
Alphonsus_John said:
I was just teasing (notice the wink). I personally hate wearing a suit and tie; hence the joke, but I agree w/ you that dress at Mass (though not my parish) can be unbelievably casual (and IMO, well past the point of disrespectful). My parish tends to go the other way w/ lots of people in their “Suday best” (suits, dresses, etc.); but enough people also in jeans and sneakers. I can’t remember ever seeing folks in what appears to be pajamas except maybe kids who go to daily Mass.

My parish is also pretty darn “orthodox” w/ daily confession, eucharistic adoration every week, and one ad orientem mass w/ polyphony and chant on Sundays.

The best way to solve the ridiculous degree of casualness, IMO, is for the priest to speak up about it from the pulpit and put it in the bulletin. Enough churches tell the congregation “turn off your cell phone” so “don’t wear pajamas to church” shouldn’t be too hard.
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Oh, no worries. I knew you were teasing. But I wanted to use your line to bring home the idea that immodesty is certainly the work of the devil.

I agree that it is the duty of the priest to speak about appropriate clothing for Mass, unfortunately I think most priests are just too concerned about offending some numbskulls to do so. My chapel has a dress code plainly posted at the entrance, as well as weekly reminders in the bulletin. ALL of the regulars dress appropriately.
 
Margarite said:
Summer in Vegas can get temperatures of 120 degrees, so people feel justified wearing basically their underwear to church. Even in the winter when the temperatures go down to 45 on the coldest days, people wear flip-flops.
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That might not be so much the effect of high temperature as it is the fact that you’re in Vegas… or are the stereotypes I’ve been exposed to completely misinforming me?
 
piouswoman said:
Yes, an excuse to be lazy with one’s exterior disposition, but more importantly, it is a result of being unaware of how deeply immersed in modernism one is, and an ignorance of the danger of that modernism. Traditional Catholicism is a totally different world of thought and action than what our society is about today. For one thing, it demands detachment from worldliness.
Traditional Catholicism and liberal modernism do not mix.
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Here we agree.
 
piouswoman said:
Definition of meal from Webster’s New World Dictionary
Meal, n.
  1. any of the times, especially the customary times, for eating; breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.
  2. the food served or eaten at one time.
After reading this it should become crystal clear why the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood Our Lord Jesus Christ should not be referred to as a “meal”.
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I apologize to everyone for ever using the word MEAL. I was only pointing out that clothing can be used as a from or respect. And by the way I have been well taught and also use the Baltimore. Thank you. God Bless you all.
 
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