Latin Mass etiquette

[WhollyRoamin]

I grew up with the Latin Mass and still remember it well, unfortunately I didn’t appreciate it. I would like to start going again and was wondering, do women have to wear something on their heads, even today?

Here’s a straight answer: go. Chapel veil or not. No one will say anything to you about it. You’ll see women with and without them, if you decide to continue to re-learn about the Tridentine Mass, you can decide later to get a veil or not.

I’ve always thought it was funny when people cite the 1983 revisions to Canon Law as to whether they need to wear a chapel veil to a TLM. As if people who are willing to go to Mass celebrated the same way since the year 1545 years give a hoot about obscure Canon Law revisions in 1983.

 

[weepixie71]

You attend Traditional Mass? I had no idea.

But please, please get it through your head that this doesn’t entitle you to make pronouncements on dress code (you’ve been told that veils are no longer required, and your only response is to ignore current Canon Law). You justify your opinions (and they are just that, opinions) with old Papal writings, yet you justify disobedience of the current Pope by chanting a mantra about not needing to obey “fallible” teachings.

We’re being as patient as we have been to this point, since you say you’re only 17. But please, please don’t push things. These are discussion forums - NOT “eens and his Traditionalist party line” forums.

And to anticipate the inevitable reply - I am not challenging anyone’s right to attend and enjoy the Old Mass, I’m just so very tired of the incorrect and inflexible attitudes that often accompany it.

actually the mass that i attend, has a dress code. its posted right by the door when you enter. the parishioners will not say anything the first month or so. but if you continue to dress that way they will ask you politely to please dress appropriately. and good for them… you do not have to wear a head covering but so many women there do that you almost feel not completely dressed if you dont wear one.

 

[DavidPalm]

A very good article on head coverings and the 1983 Canon Law here:

stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2008/12/truth-unvieled-head-covering-still.html

Not everyone agrees that the silence of the 1983 code means that women don’t have to wear one. I think it’s reasonable to err on the side of immemorial tradition and the command of an Apostle than on the discarding of that beautiful practice in the midst of a liturgical revolution.

God bless,

David