Maronite Head Covering?

[ComeHome2Rome]

After a recent move, my local parish is a Maronite Catholic Church. I’ve attended a few times & noticed that none of the woman cover their heads when going up for Holy Communion. I am not familiar with the Maronite Code of Canon Law and haven’t managed to find it on-line, so I would like to know if it’s acceptable for me to approach for Holy Communion wearing a head covering?

 

[malphono]

After a recent move, my local parish is a Maronite Catholic Church. I’ve attended a few times & noticed that none of the woman cover their heads when going up for Holy Communion. I am not familiar with the Maronite Code of Canon Law and haven’t managed to find it on-line, so I would like to know if it’s acceptable for me to approach for Holy Communion wearing a head covering?

Yes, it is quite acceptable for a woman to wear a head covering. Though you may not have seen it, some Maronite women actually do.

 

[ComeHome2Rome]

Yes, it is quite acceptable for a woman to wear a head covering. Though you may not have seen it, some Maronite women actually do.

Hurray!

I had seen something on a website that was like “Maronites don’t wear head coverings, we’re not Muslim.” I was concerned after that since Maronites come from a Muslim area of the world, I might offend someone if I chose to cover. Glad to know it’s acceptable

 

[StrengthSublime]

The Maronites (Arabic: الموارنة‎; al-mawārinah, Syriac: maronāyé) are a Christian ethnoreligious group in the Levant. They derive their name from the Syriac saint Mar Maron whose followers moved to Mount Lebanon from northern Syria establishing the Maronite Church.

Maronites were able to maintain an independent status in Mount Lebanon and its coastline after the Arab Islamic conquest, maintaining their religion and language until the 13th century.

The Ottoman Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate and later the Republic of Lebanon were created under the auspice of European powers with the Maronites as their main ethnic component. Mass immigration to the Americas at the wake of the 20th century and the Lebanese Civil War decreased their numbers greatly in the Levant. Maronites today form more than one quarter of the total population in the country of Lebanon. Oral traditions impose that each President of Lebanon be of Maronite faith.