Wearing a veil to mass?!?

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I veil my head every time I go to Mass. You’re not alone. 🙂 I feel bare without it.

Good for you for feeling strong about it.

It’s not frowned upon, except for perhaps the proud feminist types. Otherwise, most people don’t care.
 
GBR1 said:
Here’s a nice article about veils. I think it does a good job of explaining why it is not degrading to women as many feminists like to claim.

catholicknight.blogspot.com/2007/12/chapel-veil-veiling-or-head-covering.html
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IMO, if a parish priest got up and said, “I think it would be nice if ladies wore a chapel veil” you’d see a majority of the women with a little circular prayer veil on their heads the next Sunday. I would have no problem bringing that back. When this stopped, it had nothing to do with the feminists. Anymore than the feminists had anything to do with the nuns no longer wearing their habits. My big thing is the removal of the Tabernacle from the main altar. Finally, after almost 50 years, there seems to be an effort to make sure this is where the Tabernacle will be in all of our Churches. The changes were made by the priests and if they want some things back, they need to say it.
 
Headcovering woman right here! 👋 Personally, I never got into the mantillas or chapel veils. I like headscarves and kerchiefs. 🙂
 
Here’s some stores that I love:

Halo Works
Lands Far Away
Aquinas and More

Lately I’ve been wearing snoods most days because they’re the hardest for my toddler to pull off (she wants her head covered with Mommy’s veil most of the time and it’s just not fun having pins and mantilla pulled off together). So the store I’ve been shopping at the most is
Garlands of Grace. She makes all sorts of coverings from little headbands that I’d love to wear during the day, but probably not to Mass, to snoods that cover everything.

Go with whatever you feel the most comfortable in. I’ve seen enough conversations on here where people say that a certain covering “belongs” to another culture. It’s just silly. I’m a mixture of a lot of different cultures, from European, both Western and Eastern, to African, to Native American and it would be tough for me to find the “appropriate” covering :D.
 
I’ve just begun to wear a veil, regardless of what my family thinks. I think it should be reincarnated into our Church Laws, along with receiving Holy Communion on the tongue.
 
shannonfbc said:
Okay this sunday I am going to Mass and bringing my daughter with me. I have not stepped foot in a catholic church since I was 5 (my grandfather took me and then he passed away) long story short my mother refused to baptize me for reasons I don’t think I will ever understand and I now am old enough to go do RCIA and I dont need anyone’s permission.

My grandfather taught me to cover my head to pray as it states we should in the bible but my understanding from a catholic neighbor is that this practice fell out of favour with women in the sixties and its frowned upon now.
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welcome home
this is the best news I have had all week, maybe all year

head covering for women is no longer required as a discipline of the church, it did not just “fall out of favor” it is simply no longer required because the cultural context is no longer there. The injunction in Paul on that topic refers to a discipline, which can be changed, and not to a doctrine, which cannot be changed.

You are certainly free to wear a hat, veil or any head covering that to you seems appropriate any time you are in church. And no, you don’t need anyone’s permission, you do not have to explain or excuse yourself, and you will not be looked down upon or otherwise criticize by anyone except possibly the ignorant.
 
I converted out here in West Texas 20 years ago and at that time no one covered their heads except little Hispanic grandmas. Now, thanks to the influx of conservative, pro life Texas Tech student women from other places who are not afraid to veil, many (oddly enough YOUNG) women are veiling at Mass. Our Bishop will not allow us to have a Latin mass despite the Moto Proprio, so we have to demonstrate our modesty at the Novus Ordo whether people like it or not. I began veiling about 2 months ago and do not ever intend to stop!

And if you sew, get some lace (about 1/4 yard) at the fabric store, put some small flat lace edging on it, and make your own! that is what I do!
 
This is an older thread. There is a current thread on dress, etc. Please post there.

Thanks

Thomas Casey
 
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