Priests not wearing their collars in public

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Agree with the previous poster but I also think there’s alot of misplaced humility involved.
 
ichabode said:
The problem is with lay people though. Would a priest be able to go into a bar today? I think MADD and numerous busy bodies would have a cow if they saw a priest drink in public. quote]

I really hope you’re joking about the MADD comment 😦
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When (God willing) I am in a parish someday, I plan to wear my clerical collar whenever I’m in public. However, if I am working under my car in the rectory parking lot, I’ll probably put on something less expensive than a $40 clergy shirt or a $200 cassock (cassocks are actually rather comfortable in hot weather if they are a summer weight variety, and my bishop mandates the public wearing of either garment, but they tend to bind when one is changing his oil). One must be practical when in a dirty situation or even going for a sweaty jog, but to go in civvies on one’s “day off” is in my mind the equivalent of an earlier poster’s analogy of removing one’s wedding ring before going into a tavern.

Issues like the chronic avoidance of clerical garb, cutoff switches on rectory doorbells, parishioners calling the priest “Bob” instead of Father, and the like are endemic of a self-serving mentality that is contrary to the sacrificial nature of the priesthood. One of the most difficult things I have had to learn is that my life is not my own, and that to become a priest, I have to completely submit myself to God and His will. If I’m a priest, than I am His instrument, and if His Church wants His instruments to wear a black collar, I’ll do it. It is that simple.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
When (God willing) I am in a parish someday, I plan to wear my clerical collar whenever I’m in public. However, if I am working under my car in the rectory parking lot, I’ll probably put on something less expensive than a $40 clergy shirt or a $200 cassock (cassocks are actually rather comfortable in hot weather if they are a summer weight variety, and my bishop mandates the public wearing of either garment, but they tend to bind when one is changing his oil). One must be practical when in a dirty situation or even going for a sweaty jog, but to go in civvies on one’s “day off” is in my mind the equivalent of an earlier poster’s analogy of removing one’s wedding ring before going into a tavern.
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Very good points. 👍
 
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