Veiling

[severus68]

One more word on this subject then I gotta let it go.

Just because the practice of covering one’s head if you are a woman and attending Mass is no longer required, some interpret this to mean** it is actually outlawed or forbidden or discouraged somehow by the Church **and nothing could be further from the truth.

But that is exactly how some want it interpreted.

It has been my observation that some take the “no longer required” statement too far and* do intend* to imply that it is somehow outlawed now. That is a distortion of authentic Catholic spiritual practice and that distortion is what shouldn’t be promoted.

Glenda

I have never read anyone on CAF saying that. I have read the contrary being written - insinuation that women who do not “veil” are lacking in piety etc.

 

[DebChris]

Can we please give this veiling thing a rest? Cover if you please, but let’s stop questioning or even stating that the Church was wrong to change this. Doing so puts one outside of Magisterial teaching and I don’t think that’s a place you want to be.

Oh, and ladies that do veil, you’d get a lot farther with getting others to accept and even consider wearing a headcovering if you didn’t go around stating that those who don’t “veil” or cover are lacking in modesty, piety, and reverence. It’s not only uncharitable, it’s rude and not part of what the Church teaches.

The real distortion comes in – when it is implied and or basically stated — that women who do not cover are lacking in "virtue/modesty/ reverence/piousness/etc.

The Catholic Church in her wisdom took the requirement of wearing a head covering for women out of the “Law.” Now I don’t need to scramble, should I forget, for a handkerchief, or a kleenix, simply to enter a church. There is no lack of virtue on the part of women who do not have something on their head when they go into a church. It is no longer the general custom of the time to wear a hat, as it was during the 50’s and 60’s when a woman wore a hat to court and other legal functions as well. I even heard of women placing a glove on their head simply to meet the Church’s mandate to have something on the head before entering a church. Isn’t it much better to be a voluntary choice?
In that matter, the OP has already answered. She said that she read the responses, asked about options, and has taken the higher road. She will still cover, just not with a mantilla.
As has already been mentioned, there is nothing mystical about the chapel veil. For those of us who did live during the 60’s, it was an easy alternative. It was something we could carry with us, and was much nicer than a handkerchief, if we wanted to stop by a church or chapel.
I already mentioned living in a part of the world where I was asked to remove my hat because a scarf is the only accepted head covering. Strife is a luxury that Christians cannot afford. While I lived in a Muslim country, few women wore anything on their head, yet the parish was the most active to which I belonged. Everybody removes shoes before entering the Adoration Chapel because “it is holy ground,” and many of us removed shoes during Mass.

 

[Thomas_Casey]

The thread is closed and so is the subject. I’m am notifying the administrator to give the veiling subject a rest for a few days as it seems the discussion is doing more harm than good.

As I said in a thread that I posted a few weeks back on bringing up the level of of discussion on TC Forum, this is precisely the kind of discussion that we do not want on TC Forum. It adds nothing to the other person’s knowledge about Catholic tradition and Catholic custom when charity is missing and people’s feelings are hurt over something that the Church herself does not feel is important enough to address in her code of law neither in the East nor the Western canons.

Thank you for your participation in this discussion. Let’s take a breather and move on to other subjects with less conflict and more education.