Valid Stole?

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FrDavid96 said:
It also depends on the circumstances; meaning that if he’s just posing for a photo, that’s one thing, but if he’s saying Mass (or about to) dressed like that, the situation is even more illicit.
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Are restrictions on the colors of stoles limited to liturgical use, or is it also illicit to wear say a sunshiny yellow stole while posing for a photo, or working at ones desk, or teaching class?
 
Mattapoisett64 said:
I think this whole thread is pretty sad. Sure, that stole may not be to our tastes, and may raise liturgical issues, but had anyone clicked on the accompanying link, you would have seen that this priest serves in a parish on the coast of Australia, in a parish that has been so disturbed by drunks and other security problems that he has had to cancel the Christmas midnight Mass for security & safety reasons.
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How does an ugly stole (which probably cost $$$$) help those with drinking problems any more than would a respectable stole?
 
Digitonomy said:
Are restrictions on the colors of stoles limited to liturgical use, or is it also illicit to wear say a sunshiny yellow stole while posing for a photo, or working at ones desk, or teaching class?
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The only purpose of a stole is a liturgical use, and yes, no matter what they must be in a proper color.

For the Mass, not merely a stole over a cassock, but the rest of the vestments (including the chasuble worn over the stole) would be required.

For confession, or blessings, or something else, there’s nothing wrong with wearing just the stole over the cassock (yes, adding the surplice as well would be preferred, but that’s very much beside the point).

We don’t know the context of the photo, so we don’t know if it was taken during Mass (rest of the vestments required) or some other context (not necessarily required). From the photo itself, I have a hard time telling if it was even taken inside a church.
 
FrDavid96 said:
The only purpose of a stole is a liturgical use, and yes, no matter what they must be in a proper color.

For the Mass, not merely a stole over a cassock, but the rest of the vestments (including the chasuble worn over the stole) would be required.

For confession, or blessings, or something else, there’s nothing wrong with wearing just the stole over the cassock (yes, adding the surplice as well would be preferred, but that’s very much beside the point).

We don’t know the context of the photo, so we don’t know if it was taken during Mass (rest of the vestments required) or some other context (not necessarily required). From the photo itself, I have a hard time telling if it was even taken inside a church.
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Here is my guess. If you look at the photo, it almost appears to be in front of a temporary Mass set-up. The Roman Missal is laid out as though the priest were going to celebrate Mass. There is a spiral-bound book next to the Roman Missal. There is also some sort of structure-like object that looks like a tabernacle behind the priest. That is one possibility.

The other is that he is getting ready for Mass because what would negate my initial observation was that this might well be the sacristy since the processional cross appears to be affixed to the back of the wall. Of course, why would the tabernacle be behind him, unless this room, whatever it is, might be used by the parish as the locale for daily Mass.

Either way, it does look like he is ready either to celebrate Mass or he has already celebrated the Holy Sacrifice at the time this picture was taken.

Unfortunately, there are some priests, and I have seen this first-hand from two different orders, who have celebrated Mass with just the alb and the stole. These were not concelebrants, mind you, they were the sole celebrants. It was rather annoying when I would see this in my old parish in Austin, and rather troubling when I saw this while visiting a local parish down here.
 
(“Reckon he was a 60s hippie in his younger days?”).
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ad hominem slurs
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Why do you think being a ex hippie is bad thing? I guess it had its plus and minues, but cmon, it does look like a tie dye shirt from that era. Being a ex hippie (if is one) doesn’t make him any less of priest, but it might answer the question why he has such a stole. LOL

And if he was my pastor I’d ask him he doesn’t like to wear the traditional. But that’s just me.
 
Lepanto said:
How does an ugly stole (which probably cost $$$$) help those with drinking problems any more than would a respectable stole?
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In the context of the many serious problems the parish seems to have, quibbling over a stole reeks of straining at gnats …
 
BamaRider said:
Why do you think being a ex hippie is bad thing? I guess it had its plus and minues, but cmon, it does look like a tie dye shirt from that era. Being a ex hippie (if is one) doesn’t make him any less of priest, but it might answer the question why he has such a stole. LOL

And if he was my pastor I’d ask him he doesn’t like to wear the traditional. But that’s just me.
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I don’t think it’s all that common for priests to buy ALL their own vestments - even the ‘hippy’ looking ones can be quite pricey.

There could be a million good reasons - maybe his sainted grandmother lovingly made it for him by hand just before she died, or a parishioner donated it who he wanted to honour by wearing it in the photo, maybe the photo was a last-minute thing and all the good ones were at his house an hour’s drive away, you just don’t know
 
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