First time wearing my mantilla

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For the first time today I proudly wore my mantilla to Eucharstic Adoration. :clapping:
I found it very comforting and it helped me to concentrate more on the Lord. I didn’t feel uncomfortable but instead closer to God. For all you ladies that have been contempleting wearing a veil I say go for it!

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Keep up the Holy work!!!
Pax
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My wife and our two daughters (13 and 9 years old) began wearing mantilla’s about one year ago. They wear them anytime they are in the presence of our Lord (when He’s either in the tabernacle or in the monstrance), and they absolutely love it. Like you say, it helps them to concentrate and avoid distractions.
 
That is beautiful. It’s so good to see an example of interior devotion through an exterior sign. Christ humbled himself to wear our humanity, don our human suffering and death. If God can do that, then it is more then fitting for us to show exterior signs of humility. Good for you.🙂
 
So happy for you!!!

I will be making one for a friend who is being received into the Church next Wednesday, Feast of the Assumption. I had so much fun shopping for lace yesterday 😃 (And you can believe I picked some up for myself too!! hehehe)

So very happy for you! 👍

~Liza
 
maryelizabeth2 said:
For the first time today I proudly wore my mantilla to Eucharstic Adoration. :clapping:
I found it very comforting and it helped me to concentrate more on the Lord. I didn’t feel uncomfortable but instead closer to God. For all you ladies that have been contempleting wearing a veil I say go for it!

maryelizabeth
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This is how I feel. I just feel at peace and protected.😃
 
I’m so glad that you decided to wear one!
Before Vatican II, women were required to wear veils, mantillas, hats, etc. while at Mass. Today few women wear the veil, and many are asking why women should wear veils at all. First and foremost, the 1917 Code of Canon Law stated: **"…women, however, should be with head covered and modestly dressed, …" **The new Code of Canon Law from 1983 does not mention the requirement of women to wear veils in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. However, the absence of a direct reference to the subject does not automatically imply a change of Church teaching. As stated in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, Can. 21: “In doubt, the revocation of a previous law is not presumed; rather, later laws are to be related to earlier ones, as far as possible, harmonized with them.”
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Women should still wear veils while in the presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist. Why? Even if the Code of Canon Law does not apply, St. Paul’s words in 1 Cor. 11:4-6 do still apply.
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I think I am actually going to move from the mantilla to a chapel cap, at least for attending the NO here in town. I still get looks with the mantilla, even 6 months later.
 
Women should still wear veils while in the presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist. Why? Even if the Code of Canon Law does not apply, St. Paul’s words in 1 Cor. 11:4-6 do still apply.
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Seminarian Matt…might I ask where you found this quotation? Is it from a Catholic source and could you give a link?

I just wonder because this is not the Catholic teaching…but rather a private interpretation of scripture as it is not we but the Church who determines the understanding of scripture. Thanks.
 
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This is how I feel. I just feel at peace and protected.😃
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I have also experienced great peace, protection and a spiritual order in my prayer and personal life. I wear a veil in the presence of our Eucharistic Lord out of love for Him and gratitude for His mercy.
 
KathleenElsie said:
This is how I feel. I just feel at peace and protected.😃
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I have also experienced great peace, protection and a spiritual order in my prayer and personal life. I wear a veil in the presence of our Eucharistic Lord out of love for Him and in gratitude for His mercy.
 
byers said:
Seminarian Matt…might I ask where you found this quotation? Is it from a Catholic source and could you give a link?

I just wonder because this is not the Catholic teaching…but rather a private interpretation of scripture as it is not we but the Church who determines the understanding of scripture. Thanks.
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I wrote that quotation. And I definitely have used Catholic teaching including Scripture and Canon Law. Head coverings were always mandatory and therefore, should still be mandatory.
 
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I think I am actually going to move from the mantilla to a chapel cap, at least for attending the NO here in town. I still get looks with the mantilla, even 6 months later.
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At the NO I tend to wear a snood or a chapel cap. You are correct that the Veil gets funny looks by newer members anyway. The other members are just use to us being STRANGE LOL.
 
When I see a woman wearing a Mantilla in Church, it brings me back to the time when I was a child in the 60’s.

All the women and girls used to wear some kind of cover back then.
 
if it helps you, and it certainly could be helpful, go for it, but let us avoid making pronouncements on church law unless we have the authority. a headcovering, like sacramentals and other disciplines and pious acts, should lead above all to a spirit of humilty which is founded on obedience. any act, no matter how worthy in itself, which is made in a spirit of defiance, dissent and disobedience will only harm the person spiritually. In today’s society a veil, would certainly be a sign of humility, if the wearer adopts it in that spirit. It think that promotion of that spirit would be better directed at the general area of modesty in general esp. for women, but also men, who increasingly are adopting the underwear grunge look for Mass.
 
I just started adoration on the first Sunday of this month. I wore a hat that I still have, but I have ordered a mantilla to wear. Hope it arrives before the September adoration. Have been thinking about wearing it every Sunday. Would be a first in this western town, but I am not worried about what anyone else may think. After all, if guys can come to Mass wearing bermuda shorts, and let us admire their hairy legs, then they can just put up with my mantilla.
So, there.
prague
 
Prague said:
I just started adoration on the first Sunday of this month. I wore a hat that I still have, but I have ordered a mantilla to wear. Hope it arrives before the September adoration. Have been thinking about wearing it every Sunday. Would be a first in this western town, but I am not worried about what anyone else may think. After all, if guys can come to Mass wearing bermuda shorts, and let us admire their hairy legs, then they can just put up with my mantilla.
So, there.
prague
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👍 😃
 
Prague said:
Would be a first in this western town, but I am not worried about what anyone else may think. prague
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well I sincerely doubt it will be the first mantilla in Nevada! Seems to me I have seen a few Westerns (movies) with some grande old Spanish Catholic Dame at Mass…
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Prague…I like your attitude! Good luck! I still don’t have the courage to wear my mantilla to mass. Maybe I should pray for the courage to do so?
 
I am not worried about what anyone thinks. They can just say, what a cute little old white haired granny.
I remember the movies with the ladies wearing the matillas, but this area was settled by mostly Germans, and now we have a major California invasion.😃
Prague
 
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