Bigger TLMs have clothes to borrow.
I’m not condoning it, but have you been to the mall lately? At least in my area (which is overall fairly conservative), it is not unusual to see all sorts of women walking around half dressed and in these types of clothes.
Sorry…not in my area…and I am not far from NYC!
Please don’t take this personally but…
i’ve never seen anyone been asked to leave. but there are head coverings in a box when you enter the church. but as for clothes, no. not that i have seen that are available to wear. but yo uknow what? that is an excellent question you brought up. and after i speak with my priest, iam going to ask him if we can have a box of different types of skirt sizes for women to wear if they come to Mass not dressed properly. i mean if we offer head coverings, we can offer skirts or dresses right? why not? like, small, medium and so on sizes. not everyone is a meidium, or whatever, i have some i can donate.
They have similar rules for going to visit the Vatican, churches and sanctuaries in Italy where only the NO is celebrated. They make shawls available for the public. No bare shoulders, short pants or short skirts are allowed. They have rules for both men and women independently of the age.
I can’t speak for the east side of the state but with our large CRC population over here, I was always under the impression that Grand Rapids was considered rather puritan compared to the rest of the state.
You’d think if it was good enough for the Vatican it should be good enough for "ANY Catholic Church "
but nope…people will fight it all the way to the grave
Honestly I worked with a couple from GR who where in a huge group of swingers there. Everyone in their group slept with everyone else until their first child was born. It was a big deal figuring out who the father was.I can’t speak for the east side of the state but with our large CRC population over here, I was always under the impression that Grand Rapids was considered rather puritan compared to the rest of the state.
But at least we laugh at the same things.that is because I laugh harder than you do
Honey, You were quite brave to give a little gentle correction to someone. That isn’t to say that you could have done something different but it is over and done with. Talk to Father about it and use it as a learning experience - either Fr. will tell you that you were wrong and not to do it again or, he will tell you that you did right and you can refine your gentle reminders
.i left a voice message on fathers machine, as my hubby needed to know when his catechism lesson was, and father called me back, we spoke about this incident and he told me i did the right thing, and he thanked me for politely taking her aside and speaking to her.Honey, You were quite brave to give a little gentle correction to someone. That isn’t to say that you could have done something different but it is over and done with. Talk to Father about it and use it as a learning experience - either Fr. will tell you that you were wrong and not to do it again or, he will tell you that you did right and you can refine your gentle reminders
I will admit that since she didn’t speak English much may have been lost to her in the translation, even the “pantomime” but that is okay. The fact that she didn’t speak English also tells me that she is from a different culture where dress is definitely different and, except for in the Middle East and East, most women seem to dress even less modestly than we do here in North America (that means the US and Canada!)
I am with you in your desire to speak with your Priest about what you did now. I don’t think that it was that absolutely horrible either (although I probably wouldn’t have done it but mostly because I am relatively shy in certain circumstances).
Brenda V. (who isn’t a Traditionalist as it seems to be “defined” on this forum)
Come on naysayers, what say you now?
I will thank you for the complement on his behalf, it is his gentlemanliness than led me to marry him.
What say I now? I still maintain that it was rude and arrogant. Regardless of what Father might say.Come on naysayers, what say you now?
