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Can anyone tell me about the use of the folded chasuble for Deacons and Sub-deacons? I have read about it a little bit, but none of the priests that I know can tell me anything about it. All I know is that it used to be used by All ordained clergy, until the Chasuble became a strictly Priestly vestment. Does anyone have years or reasons that this happened?

Also I have herd that some very traditional churches use the folded chasuble during penitential seasons even today. Does anyone know of this?
 
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Can anyone tell me about the use of the folded chasuble for Deacons and Sub-deacons? I have read about it a little bit, but none of the priests that I know can tell me anything about it. All I know is that it used to be used by All ordained clergy, until the Chasuble became a strictly Priestly vestment. Does anyone have years or reasons that this happened?

Also I have herd that some very traditional churches use the folded chasuble during penitential seasons even today. Does anyone know of this?
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Never heard of this myself. Deacon’s have been wearing Dalmatics since the first half of the 4th century. Not Chausubles.

newadvent.org/cathen/04608a.htm

I thought Folded chasubles was something new.

newliturgicalmovement.org/2008/09/vestments-and-vesture-folded-chasuble.html

google.ca/images?hl=en&q=Folded+Chasuble&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=aeO9TJ-8C4KKlwesiIXkBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQsAQwAQ&biw=1659&bih=811
 
My apologies I have seen Folded Chasubles and Dalmatics

There in my Parish Priest vestment cupboard along-side some Black vestments formerly used for Requiem Funeral Masses.

I didn’t realized they were termed as Folded.

Most priest’s and deacons wore them prior to the 1970’s in the Novus Ordo Mass.
 
I was able to find a parish here in my area that has these vestments, and was able to examine a few for myself. Some of them are simply cut very short in the front, and some are full chasubles that have been folded and stiched. Father told me that I could wear it as a Sub-deacon for a high mass when Advent begins. That should be cool. Thanks everyone!
 
The use of the folded chasubles is not part of the EF. It was partially discontinued with the 1955 rubrical revisions of Holy Week and then completely done away with in the 1960 rubrics of Blessed John XXIII. Hence they are not part of the 1962 missal.
 
It is also of note that in the ancient period, the Casula was a civil roman overgarment. It was, for lack of a better analogy, the roman greatcoat.

The civil casula was typically oval or rectangular, with a center head-hole. It’s the precursor to a great many garments, not just the chasuble. The Poncho, the sarape/zarape, the tabbard, and some others derive directly from it.
 
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