Received communion from a girl wearing ripped tights

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except if they admit to preferring modesty over see through pants. You won’t meet me there .
 
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The Diocese later required the signs to be removed.

We are to meet people where they are
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They can just wear regular clothes next time. If they have trouble finding suitable clothes it doesn’t sound like anything is going to actually happen no matter how many times they go to Mass.
 
Let me tell you a little story. Two monks were traveling in the countryside. Suddenly they arrived near a creek. A young pretty woman was trying to cross the creek but was concerned because the creek was muddy. The oldest monk offered to help her and carried her across the creek. The two monks went back to their way. They were walking in silence when suddenly the youngest monk started complaining ‘Father, sorry to tell you that but I was really surprised. What you did was not proper! Not proper at all’. The older monk replied ‘I left the young woman down after we crossed the creek, you are still carrying her with you!’.
 
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Yeah that’s not a great one, the older monk could have explained better.
But i get that we shouldn’t allow these distractions to interfere with the Mass.
 
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I haven’t read all the responses, but there’s one thing that initially came into my mind. I’m not sure how old you are, but I’m in my early thirties, and when I was a kid/pre-teen, jeans were not considered “dressy” under any circumstances. My mom wouldn’t let me wear them to church, doctor’s offices, or even graduation parties. In her mind, and most likely the minds of many people, such a thing was considered disrespectful.

Nowadays, though, I think things have changed. For ladies, a pair of jeans — even slightly ripped jeans — worn with a nice blouse, stylish shoes, and jewelry, could be considered “dressy.” Just my humble opinion, but when I see someone dressed in such a way at church, I think she looks nice and presentable, provided the outfit is not revealing.

As far as the tights, on the other hand, I’d have to think the young lady wearing them did not know they were ripped, or ripped them on her way to church and didn’t have time to go home and change. Maybe I’m not entirely up-to-date on current fashions, but I don’t think ripped tights are in style the same way ripped jeans are.
 
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Let me tell you a little story. Two monks were traveling in the countryside. Suddenly they arrived near a creek. A young pretty woman was trying to cross the creek but was concerned because the creek was muddy. The oldest monk offered to help her and carried her across the creek. The two monks went back to their way. They were walking in silence when suddenly the youngest monk started complaining ‘Father, sorry to tell you that but I was really surprised. What you did was not proper! Not proper at all’. The older monk replied ‘I left the young woman down after we crossed the creek, you are still carrying her with you!’.
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The way I heard the story, the younger monk, in admonishing the older one, started describing in great detail the various physical charms and allurements of the young woman (I won’t be any more specific than that), and that’s when the older monk replied “yes, but I put the woman down when we crossed the creek, and you are still carrying her with you”.
 
I kept it simple but I think the message is clear. Dozens of posts and we are still discussing about the odd pants of somebody randomly met in a church. Maybe we have more issues than the lady with the odd pants if such a trivial thing is keeping so much space in our minds and hearts…
 
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not trivial and not “so much space in mind and heart”. Where did you get the idea that this is taking up so much space in mind and heart? Because of the number of posts? Do you go on other threads and measure if it’s too lengthy , according to your standards, to merit further discussion. lol

no, maybe we don’t have “more issues”…maybe we are using a forum to post a question and engage in discussion.

and no, it’s not about the odd pant. wow people post anything.
 
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234 posts and counting…
For the odd pair of pants of a random stranger…
Time to use my time more productively.
 
Nothing wrong with being on a Catholic forum when you have the time, beats other things. . . .
 
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aroosi said:
I kept it simple but I think the message is clear. Dozens of posts and we are still discussing about the odd pants of somebody randomly met in a church. Maybe we have more issues than the lady with the odd pants if such a trivial thing is keeping so much space in our minds and hearts…
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I for one do not see it as trivial. The whole matter in a nutshell goes something like this:

“Is it acceptable for a person to wear a garment to Mass that is damaged — even to the point of exposing skin that is not normally exposed — in a fashion that social mores and modesty standards, not too many years prior to today, would have deemed grotesque and unacceptable from either a social or a modesty standpoint? Going a step further, may that person serve as a minister of Holy Communion while being dressed like this?”

Where to draw the line? Would jeans or slacks with the butt (pardon me) torn out of them, exposing underwear, be acceptable, if the larger society found this trendy and acceptable? (Don’t laugh — there have been stranger fashions than this.) What about baggy jeans that fall down to the point where underwear is exposed? (The latter is not a racial comment; any race can wear low-sagging jeans.) And so on.
 
Were they pants or tights? Did she have a shirt or a dress on?I think these questions are important and have not been answered.
 
Mini dress, mini skirt (i mean mini), ripped tights exposing flesh, ripped jeans exposing flesh, cleavage, short shorts
 
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That seems to be quite an outfit.

To see someone wearing a dress + skirt + tights + jeans + shorts is uncommon to say the least.
 
did not say they were wearing at the same time. Didn’t think that was necessary to have to say frankly. I’ve seen these during the daily masses I’ve attended. that’s what i meant.
 
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Try to understand that the OP said this was at a College Campus, chapel I would guess, not at a parish church.

That being said, a college student is going to dress like a college student and not like her mother.
 
@Mi_Rose asked what the person was wearing, you gave a list. Sorry, I just keep reading what you write.
 
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