Men wearing hats in church

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How many of your Churches still have hat holding clips on the backs of the pews? I love those things. And kids like playing with them.
 
It’s tempting to vote that men should now wear hats. But I don’t think VCII itself changed things. American and Western European Bishops used VCII as an excuse. Seriously, I wish men would leave the hats off and women would wear the mantilla.

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I wish we could go back to covering our heads when we worship. Why did we stop?

Three or four Sundays a year I’m at the Vigil Mass at St. Patrick’s in Miami Beach and as I drive to mass through mostly jewish neighborhoods Miami Beach I always see many families, individuals, groups of young men, all wearing their hats, yarmulkes, and even prayer shawls. Makes me want to bring my fedora to Miami.
 
If women someday are ordained then men should be able to wear hats in church.
 
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Brendan:
Gentlemen do not wear hats indoors period…
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Unless in uniform and bearing arms, which probably doesn’t come up during Mass for many of us too often.

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– Mark L. Chance.
 
The only men wearing hats in church should be those in the sanctuary wearing a miter, zucchetto, or biretta.

Any others should be kindly reminded of proper respect in a place of worship. Should they demur from removing their hats, their hats along with their heads and bodies should be removed from the church and deposited in the parking lot outside.
 
I Corinthians 11.4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraceth his head.
 
unless i am seriously mistaken, it says in the bible that women should cover their heads for reasons of vanity. by the same token men should uncover. i always put my hat on the pew next to me. if it gets crowded then on the floor.
 
Joseph Bilodeau:
What about chapeaux with plumes? 😉
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Those are only worn for ceremonial reasons and eventually removed anyways (I assume you are talking about 4th degree Knights).
 
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bogeyjlg:
Those are only worn for ceremonial reasons and eventually removed anyways (I assume you are talking about 4th degree Knights).
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Of ourse. 🙂
 
Questions of personal adornment just have to governed by current standards of the time and the place. Here in the U.S. grown men remove their hats as a sign of respect. This may have come from the time when freemen wore hats but slaves did not. Women however, were told to cover their heads as a sign of submission and respect. That seems to have biblical support. When I was young, all women going to mass covered their heads. Many used what looked like a white handkerchief. I don’t think that custom has survived. Looking around at mass, you will see few women with headcovering and few men with hats. Seems OK to me.

For myself, with what military background I have, I think that no man should wear a hat indoors unless he is under arms. In that case he should wear the hat as it it difficult to use a gun if you are holding your hat in one hand. Fortunately we don’t see much of this.
 
As a 24-year-old young man I have had many experiences with this issue. I firmly believe that men should remove their hats (with the exceptions noted above – liturgical garb, uniform hats, etc.) whenever indoors, especially in church. This was a constant battle the faculty at my Catholic prep school had with many of my fellow students because of the pervasive wearing of baseball caps by people of all ages these days. Admittedly, it takes someone to instruct them of the ettiquite involved with wearing a hat, and sadly most young people of my generation are not taught these things at home. I had not witnessed anyone wearing a cap in church until just 3 weeks ago at a confirmation practice when a SPONSOR was wearing a ball cap while standing behind one of the prospective confirmandi. I must say I was saddened to see it, but not very surprised.
 
I am a 24 year old female and I HATE men wearing hats indoors and especially in church.
I worked at a Vacation Care program last summer and at the beginning of the day I would go around and ask all the boys to remove their baseball caps. It was very funny because many of them had not brushed their hair and so got very embarressed!

At my father’s old parish there was a very “no-nonsence” nun who would go around the church before mass and remove the baseball caps from the young boys heads! There were always quite a few as it was a parish of mostly young familys. She would then take them to the back of the church and they would have to go and ask her for them back after Mass!

On the subject of women and head coverings.
My boyfriend is Nigerian and he tells me that back home women NEVER go to Mass without covering thier heads. Not with mantillas but with traditional head wraps. The younger women wear very plain ones but the older women’s can be very large and ornate! Interesting also that thier Masses would go on for hours - everything that could be sung was sung and the priests gave quite long sermons. Going to Mass was an event that took up the whole day and involved the whole village.
I kinda wish I’d had that experience growing up…
 
Jamie Burns:
I wish we could go back to covering our heads when we worship. Why did we stop?

Three or four Sundays a year I’m at the Vigil Mass at St. Patrick’s in Miami Beach and as I drive to mass through mostly jewish neighborhoods Miami Beach I always see many families, individuals, groups of young men, all wearing their hats, yarmulkes, and even prayer shawls. Makes me want to bring my fedora to Miami.
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You don’t have to stop. I’m 20 and I grew up in the Novus Ordo, and DH and I are now traditional Catholics. I wear the veil that a friend gave me to every Mass! At our parish, all the women wear veils so when mine falls off (I’m learning how to keep it on during all of Mass), I almost have a cow. Thank God that a girl found it and gave it back to me last Sunday when it fell off…Anyway, my point is Get a veil and wear it to the Novus Ordo! 🙂

my Mother my Confidence,
Corinne
 
…i vote NO!..:cool:

sorry to be so lengthy with my response…👍

Peace:thumbsup:
 
Jamie Burns:
I wish we could go back to covering our heads when we worship. Why did we stop?

Three or four Sundays a year I’m at the Vigil Mass at St. Patrick’s in Miami Beach and as I drive to mass through mostly jewish neighborhoods Miami Beach I always see many families, individuals, groups of young men, all wearing their hats, yarmulkes, and even prayer shawls. Makes me want to bring my fedora to Miami.
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The early church fathers and even in the Bible, St Paul? said “Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered, dishonoreth his head. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled. dishonoreth her head.”
 
Yes, I know this is needed, BUT. There are times that men are required to wear a hat at Mass.

If the Knights of Columbus is officially attending Mass they wear the headgear associated with their degree (station). Then for the consecration the headgear is removed.
 
I think fedoras look good. Baseball hats look ridiculous unless you’re on a baseball diamond.

But fedoras can be OK inside…but never during a mass.
 
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