Mantilla being used in Protestant Churches

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Has anyone here heard of protestants wearing mantillas? I have a friend who goes to a Protestant Church , where they wear mantillas. I was very surprised when she told me this. Has anyone seen or heard something familiar?
 
In a scene in a BBC documentary about Westboro Baptist Church :Shivers: the women are seen wearing mantillas during their service
 
I’m not a denizen of Protestant services, but I’m told that it is quite normal for women to wear a head covering. It’s not necessarily a mantilla, but I suppose in Latin America (or in Latin American communities elsewhere) a mantilla might be more common.
 
Most churches nowadays, Protestant or not, see head covering as a personal choice. You could probably find “backyard churches”(such as Westboro) where women are required to cover. I don’t believe any of the mainstream Protestant denominations require it, but possibly certain congregations within a denomination may, probably depending on the pastor.

I cover at my non-Protestant church, but it’s not required. (OK, I cover all the time, too.)

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my grandmother and aunts would not have dreamed of entering their Methodist church without hats – and gloves
 
That doesn’t surprise me. I know there are some very “eccentric” Baptist churches which practice very select parts of the Bible. Such as some churches which positively forbid a woman to literally speak in church whatsoever. Some that require women to “dress modestly” so they wear ankle long skirts. This isn’t Menonite practice, this is in some Baptist churches so it doesn’t surprise me that some are wearing head covering.

I’m just somewhat saddened to see what private interpretation renders in practice from some churches. Especially, without the full understanding of faith and grace avaliable in the Catholic Church alone.

Unfortunately, a bad misuse of biblical passages that I’ve heard recently is that many evangelical/fundamentalist African-American women are starting to say when asked, ‘how are you?’ to reply, "I’m blessed and highly favored.
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I know of a fundamentalist Pentecostal church in my area where the women are required to wear dresses but I am not sure about mantillas. The same goes for a fundamentalist church in my area that is similar to a Pilgrim Holiness church but is independent. We have a lot of independent fundamentalists in my area. 😉 Most of the independent fundamentalist people in my area are very friendly though (although sometimes they act suspicious of Catholics… lol). 🙂 I think that most of their suspicion stems from the fact that they are ignorant of what the Catholic Church teaches.
 
CatholicLife said:
Has anyone here heard of protestants wearing mantillas? I have a friend who goes to a Protestant Church , where they wear mantillas. I was very surprised when she told me this. Has anyone seen or heard something familiar?
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Yes, a friend of mine whose daughter is a conservative Presbyterian, says she wears one to Church.
 
They’re becoming more reverent than the novus ordo Catholics. Way to go N.O.
 
My cousin went to a non-denominational church for a short while where she wore a headcovering. I don’t know if it was required or not.

“They’re becoming more reverent than the novus ordo Catholics. Way to go N.O.”

Not necessarily. My headcovering-wearing cousin thinks there’s absolutely nothing wrong with abortion, and that aborted babies are usually better off that way . . .

Someone else already mentioned the Westboro people, too.

I wear a mantilla to Latin Mass, but it doesn’t mean a thing if my heart isn’t just as reverent as my head looks.
 
Moscati said:
My cousin went to a non-denominational church for a short while where she wore a headcovering. I don’t know if it was required or not.

“They’re becoming more reverent than the novus ordo Catholics. Way to go N.O.”

Not necessarily. My headcovering-wearing cousin thinks there’s absolutely nothing wrong with abortion, and that aborted babies are usually better off that way . . .

Someone else already mentioned the Westboro people, too.

I wear a mantilla to Latin Mass, but it doesn’t mean a thing if my heart isn’t just as reverent as my head looks.
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I know, you have a good point. I’m just so disappointed with NO that my contempt shows.
 
There’s an independent Baptist church in my area that airs its services on TV. Some of the ladies in the choir are wearing what appears to be mantillas.

On another note, the Church never said that women must wear a mantilla in church but that they must wear a headcovering. I’m not sure where the mantilla thing came from, or if its a more recent trend, but up to Vatican II women in the U.S. at least typically wore a hat in church. Once upon a time Protestant women wore hats in church, too, but it probably had more to do with the fact that it was the style at the time and women wore hats indoors everywhere than with St. Paul’s admonition.
 
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Ha ha! What’s even more upsetting is that they are the most “visible” face of Christianity because they tend to be the most vocal. :ouch:
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Yes, that is true, but it is sad. Well, and it’s sad to see on some videos I’ve seen of them on YouTube that some people are commenting going “These are actually the true Christians. They are just following what the Bible says.”

But, how can one with the least bit of common sense believe that Jesus Christ and God would like people going around holding signs like “GOD HATES YOU”?

Where in the Bible did it command to say God hated people?
 
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