Vimpas and Humeral Veils

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Vimpas are used by Altar Servers when carrying the Mitre and Croizer of a celebrating bishop. Vimpas are used to signify that whatever they [altar severs] are holding with vimpas, it does not belong to them.

Can Humeral Veils be used in the absence of vimpas?
 
Humeral veils are also restricted to clergy unless the ordinary has granted a particular exception, none of which I’m aware of in the US.
 
What is the practical distinction, not in use but in design, between humeral veils and vimpas? Is it just a matter of the size of the cloth and whether the fabric is simple or fancy?

In my experience, humeral veils tend to be cream or gold color and often made of brocaded fabrics while vimpae tend to be from simple woven fabrics and white (although I understand they can be of the liturgical color of the day, not just white.)
 
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Vimpas are used by Altar Servers when carrying the Mitre and Croizer of a celebrating bishop.
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Well, that’s news. I have been to multiple services and Masses, and no one has worn a vimpa - and that is about 4 bishops’ worth of services (e.g. RCIA related) and Masses.
 
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Vimpas are used by Altar Servers when carrying the Mitre and Croizer of a celebrating bishop. Vimpas are used to signify that whatever they [altar severs] are holding with vimpas, it does not belong to them.

Can Humeral Veils be used in the absence of vimpas?
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Well that explains what I saw during the entrance procession for Night Prayer on Friday night. Wondered Why the seminarians were wearing that.
 
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