Thank you, Liza, for the sympathy and the information! In my area, places like Hobby Lobby also sell very inexpensive bandanas. They’re usually plain, though, as I guess most people buy them to decorate them their own way. Miz
I was just at Hobby Lobby a few days ago… I was in the ‘bandana aisle’ and thinking about headcoverings! It’s so interesting you mentioned that
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I started head covering during Lent several years ago. I always wore something–hat, bandana, or a more formal covering–in public. I stopped covering when Lent was over.
And again something else you mentioned: head covering during Lent… it seems I was just thinking about this a few days ago too! If memory serves, I was thinking about Lent, and how would seem like such a wonderful thing to wear a daily head covering.
And whether during Lent or throughout the year, I think it would also be a good thing to offer it up in reparation for all the immodesty in women’s fashion these days. I was actually thinking about that too (the subject of daily covering has been on my mind for the last few weeks, my soul is stirred by it as of late it seems). I was thinking about how wonderful it would be if such a thing took off and more Catholic ladies chose to voluntarily wear a daily head covering (for Jesus, number one), and as an inspirational model amidst the grevious impurity of fashions that have sadly become the so prevalent today.
I’m so sorry about your fiance, may he rest in the arms of Our Lord.
ac claire:
What you said about mantillas, Mrs Sally, is right on. We think of them as being “traditional” across the board, but really they are more of a Spanish tradition that has become global over the past half-century or so.
I am of Irish descent, and Irish ladies back in the day never wore mantillas. They wore hats and sometimes scarves or a kerchief.
It’s such an odd thing to think about things all week, and see the very things I was thinking about being mentioned pretty much straight down this forum. Yes! I was thinking about mantillas and the head coverings of Irish women of days past. (Are you all in my head
? Seriously, I feel like Malkovich. See, this is why I’m searching to know if this is something that God is wanting for me. There are even more things that have happened… I know I’m getting off topic, but I have to say it because as it relates to my amazement in all this… My mother and I had a very brief conversation about head coverings. That very Sunday when she went to church a row - not one, not two, but a
whole entire big huge row of ladies -all
visitors never seen before - sat in front of her, and every one had head coverings. And appearing of all the Sunday’s too, because only few days before that I had prayed to Jesus asking Him that if it was His will for me to truly wear a head covering every day, to please somehow reveal it through my mother and make it undeniably obvious
. I don’t want to take the thread with this, but I’d love to know everyone’s thoughts about if it is as obvious as I’m thinking. -Just put your message on my little profile wall, that’ll be fine - Oh, I’m excited!)
Back to headcoverings and your statement ac claire, I was wondering about the head coverings of Irish ladies of days past, because I’ve been interested in something not as formal as a mantilla (although beautiful) for throughout the week, and if I wore a covering on Sundays, I would wear the mantilla then because it’s more formal. At the same time, I don’t know if the bandana is exactly what I’m looking for throughout the week, although it is a possibility. I had found this style (
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page). I’m interested in all of the options available.
Anyway, as it is probably quite obvious by my post, I am so excited about this. And for so many wonderful reasons. I’m also intrigued by the posts here of other women who are wondering if perhaps this is something Our Lord is wanting for them. Before I saw this thread, I don’t know if I knew that other Catholic ladies out there were feeling led by the Lord in such a way. God bless you all
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