Two Hardcore Videoed EWTN Homilies on How to Dress/Act for Mass

[Xantippe]

Can a chanel dress that costs 3000 Dollar be called modest?

I stay with my opinion “it depends” but woukd like to bring this up. Modesty is not only about skirt length.

In fact, in the Bible, you’ll find that modest with regard to dress primarily means not-over expensive, not ostentatious.

See St. Paul (1 Timothy 2): " I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire 10 but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion."

 

[jcm2017]

Is that Theology of the Body? Sounds like this guy knows his stuff. Surprised it doesn’t get more comment.

 

[Boler]

No one has condoned or excused lust, everyone is condemning it. No one has shamed the female body. No one has said attractiveness is immodest. No one has shamed breastfeeding. No one has said if you are truly poor and can only afford a t-shirt you should not come to Mass. No one has said it’s not difficult for a woman to negotiate with today’s fashions. None of the “white men” here mentioned any specifics of clothing. Just generalities as mentioned in the OP homilies.

Yet a large group has come here bringing in all this baggage and more, causing unnecessary controversy, escalation, and polluting the purity of this topic that is already stifled enough as it is in our culture. No one has stopped to reflect on what the catechism says on the topic or on what the priests in the homily preached.

Everyone is arguing past each other.