I think I’ll stick with the thought that the Catholic Church is there for all, especially the sinners and leave it at that.The point was trying to be made that the Protestants consider church to be God’s house. Even though some may be poor, they show deference toward all the things of God, even in the way they dress for their Sunday worship, i.e., “take off your sandals for you are on holy ground.” Perhaps we could be taught a lesson by their good example.
Some do, some don’t.
When was the last time you saw women wearing headcovering in a Catholic Church as commanded by Holy Scripture?When going to church, we should dress with RESPECT for the Lord. Amen!
What if a Protestant said, “You Catholics claim that Christ is really and truly present in your wafers and wine. I don’t think even you actually believe that, because when you go to your church you dress as if you’re going to a barbecue.”
I’d see it as someone that is easily impressed with outer appearances and it must be struggle for them to get to really know what is in a person’s heart. I’d also wonder how many times they’ve missed really seeing Jesus in someone because that person didn’t have on the right clothes by their standards.
Preach it sister! :clapping:When going to church, we should dress with RESPECT for the Lord. Amen!
In my parish there is one woman who became Catholic in 2009, she wears a mantilla every Sunday. Other than her, maybe two or three others. But truly nothing like when I was a kid (pre Vatican II)
Touche …
Churchgoers at my nearby Protestant churches all dress much better to services than do Catholics around here - in the main. One big exception: St. Augustine, the primarily black Catholic church in North Little Rock - they dress as well as the Protestants do. Dresses and hats on the ladies, shirt and tie at the very least on the men. Kids neatly dressed, too.The point was trying to be made that the Protestants consider church to be God’s house. Even though some may be poor, they show deference toward all the things of God, even in the way they dress for their Sunday worship, i.e., “take off your sandals for you are on holy ground.” Perhaps we could be taught a lesson by their good example.
Soes that prove that Protestants are more respectful toward religion than Catholics are?
Not when you have “church shopping” and things like this: youtu.be/q4ghjPbULEU
First you tell me to dress up for church to show respect; then you tell me to go barefoot. Please make up your mind.The point was trying to be made that the Protestants consider church to be God’s house. Even though some may be poor, they show deference toward all the things of God, even in the way they dress for their Sunday worship, i.e., “take off your sandals for you are on holy ground.” Perhaps we could be taught a lesson by their good example.
If you consider the fact as testified to here on this thread that Protestants dress more respectfully at Church than Catholics do, why would not that be a sure indication that Protestants take their religion more seriously than do many Catholics?
That’s only one way of looking at it. You can’t see what is in a person’s heart just by what they wear on their body. Its not an automatic that people that dress “down” are any less serious about their faith than someone that dresses “up”. People can “testify” all they want, doesn’t mean its an actual fact.
I grew up Protestant. I don’t see any substantive difference in the way they dress. Catholic parishes are generally larger than Protestant congregations so you are more likely to get the outliers wearing a hockey jersey etc… How seriously does someone take Christianity if they regularly jump between denominations with wildly different and conflicting doctrines because one has better music, donuts and the like?
It’s not a matter of meeting someone else’s standards. The point is that the way we dress reflects what is in our hearts. I think in some cases it’s not even that people don’t make an effort to dress appropriately, they actually perversely deliberately “dress down” to go to Mass to try to “impress” people that they’re hip or they identify with the poor or they think they’re asserting their independence in some puerile way because “I’m not going to let anybody tell me that I have to conform to some minimum dress code.”
