Minor orders for bald-headed - How?

[Nestor_kea]

I have just seen a picture of a man being accepted as reader. Part of this was symbolic cutting of his hair. He was nearly bald so it was quite a hard business for the bishop. How is this done when the person to be accepted to minor order has no hair and no are growing so there is nothing to be cut? I just cannot believe this would make candidate to be unacceptable. (By the way, eparch Burnette was bald prior to his minor orders or not?)

 

[phil19034]

I have just seen a picture of a man being accepted as reader. Part of this was symbolic cutting of his hair. He was nearly bald so it was quite a hard business for the bishop. How is this done when the person to be accepted to minor order has no hair and no are growing so there is nothing to be cut? I just cannot believe this would make candidate to be unacceptable. (By the way, eparch Burnette was bald prior to his minor orders or not?)

I’m not sure, but most bald men do grow hair on the sides of their heads. But as the Church was doing this for a long time, I’m sure there was something in place for a situation like that.

As FYI - the minor orders have been suppressed in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. So they only exist in the Orders dedicated to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and the Eastern Catholic Churches.

 

[shlomo3amrooh]

This made me laugh. I know someone who’s bald and in the minor orders!!
I guess God tonsured him!

 

[2HeartsSlave]

Hahaha what a question
But a valid one!

 

[Nestor_kea]

the minor orders have been suppressed in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. So they only exist in the Orders dedicated to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and the Eastern Catholic Churches.

It was Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in Czech Republic, probably its Slovak parish (so Slavic hattrick).

Happy to provide fun.

This made me laugh. I know someone who’s bald and in the minor orders!!

And how was he accepted?

I guess God tonsured him!

superb idea

By the way, maybe shaving bold head could be working substitute.

And to make clear, I meant completely bald men with no “side hair”, like eparch Burnette now.

 

[Falco]

perhaps a totally bald Kojak type could offer his chest hair? Or his eyebrows.

 

[Aramis]

I know of a bald deacon who was “scraped gently” with the scissors at the points of the cross (where the snips would have been). This was a Roman religious.

Remember, the snips are usually in the 4 points of the cross.

 

[L_Ron_Hubbub]

Bald people must first undergo orthotonsure.