Join us--wear a head covering to Mass Oct 2

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I think that the reason why I was banned from specifically wearing a veil, was because some people had complained to the Priest, saying that it was an “affectation”.
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That’s pretty weird. Funny thing is, had you worn a suit with a matching hat just for fashion’s sake, the complainers probably would have had no problem with it. :rolleyes:

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One of the other ladies in our parish who wears a veil is a very recent Lutheran convert. Her husband is going through RCIA this coming year - please keep him in your prayers.

I haven’t asked why she started wearing a veil but I am curious.

As an answer to the question about why a parish would ban veils, I have an idea. Deep down, “progressives” are very insecure about their position in the Church.

!!! Take the following comparison as a comparison of fear, not of moral comparison. !!!

They have a fear similar to that exhibited by abortion supporters - ANY change in the current situation that could be interpreted as a “step back” is seen as the beginning of the wholesale descrution of the current status quo. Thus, abortion supporters fight against parental notification, restrictions on abortifacients and limits on partial birth abortions even when such positions are really indefensible.

In the same way, Catholic “progressives” see anything that could be called traditional - veils, bells, incense, patens, cassocks, latin, etc. - as the first step in a mandatory return to the Tridentine Mass.

We experienced this first-hand when we lived in Dallas. The parish we attended had recently changed pastors and the new pastor, to get things up to date, had banned people from receiving at the Communion Rail, mandated female servers, banned Latin and Chant and thrown out the FSSP weekday Tridentine Mass.

A rumor started by our campus chaplain’s office made its way to this pastor that we were planning on having a Latin Novus Ordo Mass for our wedding at his church. At the time, the rumor was completely unfounded but we got hauled into the pastor’s office where he accused us of betraying his trust and told us that the priest who was going to marry us was not welcome in the parish.

The reason for this treatment, according to him, was that he had just been through a very painful time bringing his parish up to date and didn’t want to reopen old problems. Even though we weren’t getting married during a parish Mass and hadn’t planned on having a Latin wedding (we had planned on having our college polyphonic choir sing) he refused to change his position.

We left the parish and ended up having a Latin Novus Ordo wedding Mass with our original celebrant and to the best of my knowledge, the Tridentine Mass hasn’t been instituted across the Dallas diocese.
 
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athanasiusrc:
We left the parish and ended up having a Latin Novus Ordo wedding Mass with our original celebrant and to the best of my knowledge, the Tridentine Mass hasn’t been instituted across the Dallas diocese.
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A quick google search returns an approved (FSSP) Latin Mass Community in Dallas:

Mater Dei Latin Mass Community (Est. 1991)
**Mailing Address: **6228 Winton St., Dallas 75214 (214-887-8696, fax 214-887-8717), Email: mdpdal@cathdal.org Sunday Mass Location: Carmel of St. Joseph and the Infant of Prague. Chaplain: Rev. Joseph R. Valentine, FSSP
Mass Schedule: Sun. 9:30 a.m. (High Mass), 11:30 a.m., at Carmel of St. Joseph and the Infant of Prague; Mon.-Fri. 6:30 a.m., Sat. 8 a.m., at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6306 Kenwood, Dallas.
Rite of Reconciliation: Sun. 8:45-9:20 a.m.; before 11:30 a.m Mass. Weekdays, before and after 6:30 a.m. Mass.
 
By “the Tridentine Mass hasn’t been instituted across the Dallas diocese” I meant that it hadn’t suddenly replaced the standard liturgies in parishes throughout the diocese.

The Tridentine Mass has been given “generous” availability by being confined on Sundays to a remote Carmelite chapel that holds about 80 people. It has been at this location ever since it was first approved over a dozen years ago.
 
I found something discreet to wear at Walmart today. A wide blacklace hair band. Since my hair is dark it’s not very noticeable so you can count me in for Oct 2.
 
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rayne89:
I found something discreet to wear at Walmart today. A wide blacklace hair band. Since my hair is dark it’s not very noticeable so you can count me in for Oct 2.
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Forest-Pine
grotto
Brenda V.
netmil(name removed by moderator)
BlestOne
athanasiusrc’s wife and daughters
Lorrie
Detroit Sue
tadly’s wife
Helen HansenPye
JCPhoenix
Pug
soonersvi
Cathy
MamaBear7
Cradle
the phoenix
vluvski
Mom of 5
GoLatin
rayne89
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Maybe
snow_white
paramedicgirl
CarolAnnSFO
RosaryLady
LuzEstrella
 
My daughter and I cover for Mass as well as for personal prayer time. It is a wonderful reminder that I am in church to worship God and makes me feel a little more private when praying at home or where ever I happen to be.
 
I go to the Indult so I always wear a veil so it’s not a big deal for me. I did just buy a few new ones for the winter. I’m looking forward to wearing one of them this Sunday, then heading out en mass from Church to the Walk for Life.
Kathy
 
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Forest-Pine
grotto
Brenda V.
netmil(name removed by moderator)
BlestOne
athanasiusrc’s wife and daughters
Lorrie
Detroit Sue
tadly’s wife
Helen HansenPye
JCPhoenix
Pug
soonersvi
Cathy
MamaBear7
Cradle
the phoenix
vluvski
Mom of 5
GoLatin
rayne89
KathleenElsie and her daughter
Pandora
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Maybe
snow_white
paramedicgirl
CarolAnnSFO
RosaryLady
LuzEstrella
 
I think we need to make a collection of Forest-Pine’s nice smileys from this thread. I can’t wait to see the celebration smiley.:bounce:
 
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I think we need to make a collection of Forest-Pine’s nice smileys from this thread. I can’t wait to see the celebration smiley.:bounce:
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no kidding! I want more people to join just to keep seeing the smilies 😉
 
Ahhh… you two are too kind! I get all the smileys at SmileyCentral. It is kinda annoying in that it also shows up in my email composition box. I downloaded it before then ended up uninstalling it. I put it back, and I love so many of the smileys that I can put up with the space it adds to my task bar. Here’s one for each of you:

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You can count me in, as well! I would just like to say that I’m thrilled to have found other women who want to cover thier heads, but struggle with feeling self conscious about it! I guess I just assumed I was the only one in the US, and had resigned myself to feeling out of place. 🙂 I like to attend the Tridentine Mass when I can, but there isn’t one in the area. So I wear my veil to the Novus Ordo, and have never gotten anything but curious looks. No one has even asked me about it. Of course, I’m sure I FEEL more eyes on me than there actually are!

Now that I have 2 very small children, I have to modify my veil so that I can tie it around the back of my head under my hair, and that works out wonderfully! I don’t feel as self consious, and am able to concentrate more in the Mass and less on my paranoid thoughts of other eyes staring. :rolleyes:

This is a great idea of supporting other women in their veil-wearing! Because it is hard to be the only one at Mass with a covered head. We should all remind each other that our “weirdness” usually goes much less noticed than we think! :o

Be at peace in the Heart of Mary
 
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Consecrated:
You can count me in, as well! I would just like to say that I’m thrilled to have found other women who want to cover thier heads, but struggle with feeling self conscious about it! I guess I just assumed I was the only one in the US, and had resigned myself to feeling out of place. I like to attend the Tridentine Mass when I can, but there isn’t one in the area. So I wear my veil to the Novus Ordo, and have never gotten anything but curious looks. No one has even asked me about it. Of course, I’m sure I FEEL more eyes on me than there actually are!

Now that I have 2 very small children, I have to modify my veil so that I can tie it around the back of my head under my hair, and that works out wonderfully! I don’t feel as self consious, and am able to concentrate more in the Mass and less on my paranoid thoughts of other eyes staring.

This is a great idea of supporting other women in their veil-wearing! Because it is hard to be the only one at Mass with a covered head. We should all remind each other that our “weirdness” usually goes much less noticed than we think!

Be at peace in the Heart of Mary
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Consecrated,
I think your words speak for many of us. Thank you.

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Yes:
Forest-Pine
grotto
Brenda V.
netmil(name removed by moderator)
BlestOne
athanasiusrc’s wife and daughters
Lorrie
Detroit Sue
tadly’s wife
Helen HansenPye
JCPhoenix
Pug
soonersvi
Cathy
MamaBear7
Cradle
the phoenix
vluvski
Mom of 5
GoLatin
rayne89
KathleenElsie and her daughter
Pandora
Consecrated
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Maybe
snow_white
paramedicgirl
CarolAnnSFO
RosaryLady
LuzEstrella
 
I’m one of those who has felt the “tug” to wear a head covering. I asked one of my friends about it and she too has thought about it.(she lives in another state so I don’t know what she has done yet)

I’m still not sure yet, but I did get a veil from Miles Jesu. Theirs are made by girls in Nigeria and I felt happy to help them. It’s really pretty.

So, count me as a maybe.
 
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Yes:
Forest-Pine
grotto
Brenda V.
netmil(name removed by moderator)
BlestOne
athanasiusrc’s wife and daughters
Lorrie
Detroit Sue
tadly’s wife
Helen HansenPye
JCPhoenix
Pug
soonersvi
Cathy
MamaBear7
Cradle
the phoenix
vluvski
Mom of 5
GoLatin
rayne89
KathleenElsie and her daughter
Pandora
Consecrated

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Maybe
snow_white
paramedicgirl
CarolAnnSFO
RosaryLady
LuzEstrella
Gloriapatri
 
OK ladies, I tried on the hat I wanted to wear, and I look really, really silly in it (although it is fairly dressy for a straw hat, I only actually bought it to keep the sun off me while working in the garden. My other hats are definitely not church-material).

I have some scarves, but they are covered with my company’s corporate logo, and I would look like a billboard wearing them.

Any other cheap ideas? (can’t afford to buy much at the moment) (I have very short hair, by the way, so I don’t know that snoods or headbands would work).

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I have a question/point in ya’lls favor here (I think!)

How is wearing a headcovering to church (or even feeling that you yourself OUGHT to wear one) any different than those of us who would never go to church in pants, but have no issues with other women wearing pants to church?

Thats majorly simplifying it I’m sure - and being a soon-to-be ex-protestant/new Catholic - I’m sure I don’t understand all that goes on. I just think the headcovering seems like a nice touch… so you go ladies!!!
 
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