Is the chapel veil, when blessed, a sacremental?

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A priest told to me that he would bless my chapel veil. I am thinking that he will use holy water and say a prayer over it.

What benefit does this confer upon it?

Will I now be blessed to wear it when I do wear it?

I am not aware of this being done before, and what are the benefits of a priestly blessing upon it as well as the sprinkling of holy water upon it?

When I wash it, it will still be blessed, correct?
 
The purpose of a sacramental is to help the one using it in pious devotion. If the blessed chapel veil is specifically meant to increase you devotion then, yes, it would be a sacramental.

The benefit would really depend on why you wear it. In other words if it is a fashion statement or meant as an outward sign of piety to other’s then it will provide almost no benefit, but on the other hand if one wears it as a form of humility then it can help strengthen you in the practice of that virtue.

As with all sacramentals, it remains a sacramental as long as it’s form remains (and it’s not sold, blah, blah, blah). In that case washing it does not have an impact.
 
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I take it that my priest means for me to wear it when it is blessed, as a sort of protection for me from any evil.

I wear it only at tlm masses and not to n.o. masses, and often at home during devotions.

Its just for me and God alone, but I had no understanding of how or why it would be a sacremental, and why it would be blessed.

Are other women ever getting their veils blessed and what exactly does this do for them vs not being a blessed veil?

Having it blessed increases ones piety?
 
One of the ladies from my parish gave me a black veil which was blessed. (She wore it to a papal audience.) However, she gave me 2 black veils & couldn’t remember which one was blessed. 😬
 
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There is no point in blessing a “chapel veil” as it has no sacramental significance nor are there any real blessings attached to wearing this article of clothing. it would be like blessing your favorite pair of shoes. Headcoverings were simply normal pieces of clothing worn by men and women in the apostolic era in the Middle East and elsewhere. It is not a charm, somehow shielding someone from evil.

That being said, the reason why veils of sacred women might be blessed is because it does have symbolism of the woman belonging to God alone. But there again, the veil does not protect them from anything “evil”. If anything, satan is more than eager to attack consecrated women as they are bigger “prizes”.

Edit: Also, to be clear, many sacred virgins, myself included, were given unblessed bridal veils by our bishops in the solemn ritual elevating us to the role of Bride of Christ. Believe me, if the Fathers of the Church thought it would be a good idea to have veils for lay-women blessed, they would have written about it. The Fathers had a hard enough time telling the sacred virgins to wear the headcovering (veil) of married women in public, and they would have hyped the sacramental aspect if it were a sacramental in their long discourses on the veiling of virgins. But no, the Fathers were asking the Brides of Christ to wear the ordinary attire of a married laywoman woman of the day, which meant to wear an opaque headcovering showing no hair instead of having their heads uncovered like unmarried women.
 
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Again, it goes against tradition of approximately two millennia to bless lace doilies and such for laywomen. Sure, things can be blessed, but that does not make them “sacramentals”. A car is blessed to run smoothly and well, not because it is a sign of something theological. Right now there is an inordinate push to make a bigger deal out of women’s headcoverings than is prudent, and a lot of serious errors about why women should or should not wear something on their heads in Church.
Blessing a laywoman’s headpiece only compounds and reinforces certain errors. E.g. there is a serious lie on the internet that there is a solemn consecration of the veils contained in the Roman Pontifical (the book of special sacraments/sacramentals presided over by the bishop). That’s not true. Veils are never consecrated. Whoever wrote that lie conveniently omitted the truth that virgins are consecrated and the traditional name for the ceremony is the veiling of virgins. The velatio virginum is significant because the virgin is made a Bride of Christ and in ancient times the bishop placed a flammeum on her head because it symbolized an indissoluble marriage, and she was entering an indissoluble marriage with Jesus Christ, the Son of God. But again, Roman women wore the flammeum on their wedding day IF they were married in the strictest ceremony possible because it was truly a bridal veil signifying indissolubility.
 
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I will take your word for it, because I have been working with this priest for over 6 months now and he has blessed many items for me, and I take it that he would not be doing these things if they were a waste of his time, because I think that he takes his vocation very seriously.

I only asked because it never occured to me to have a veil blessed and I was not sure exactly why this would be…however, I remember now that even animals can be blessed as well as yachts too, right?

I mean, it cant possibly be wrong or hurtful to our Lord Jesus can it?
 
well, thanks for posting, I do plead my innocence in these matters as well as confusion.

yikes. I did not mean to open up a can of worms.
 
@(name removed by moderator) Yes, I understand that you are kind and supportive. My priest is a God send to me and to many others. One time I asked him if I really needed to see him at all and he said that he does not have the time to waste seeing people for no valid reason, and he has a waiting list too.
 
Well, I realize Blessed Mother wore one, and thats enough for me.

Our Lady is not out of style for todays world.
 
@(name removed by moderator) Only myself, God and my priest will know about the blessing., Father is leading and directing me to salvation. I need a lot of work, so these efforts are really lots of work and effort, but so beautiful.

Going to bed now.

God bless and reward you for your kindness and generosity.
 
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. . . . Did you know that 70% ish of the bishops of a certain era were Arian heretics? Which meant a lot of their priests were heretics? So no, I don’t rely on individual priests to tell me the truth. I look to magisterial and continuous teachings of the Church. And strangely enough, veils for laywomen are considered by the Church to be a discipline of no normative value today (inter insigniores). The problem comes into play when people want to make it an obligation when the Church herself doesn’t, or come up with fantastic theories as to why women should wear one, or overly spriitualize it to justify their sartorial preferences.
 
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That’s exactly what +Raya wrote years ago in Byzantine Daily Worship. I’ve also heard of blessed dresses (e.g. Sodality dresses) before VII.
 
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Is that from Introduction to the Devout Life?
 
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Seriously, though, St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori & St. Francis de Sales are 2 of my favorite spiritual writers. Highly recommend them.
 
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I have The Spiritual Combat too but haven’t read it in 12+ years because a SSPX priest told me not to. He said I didn’t need it.

I see you’re on CDT then. It’s past 1 a.m. here.

Good night!
 
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