What about dress code

[cccw2009]

“Come as you are”…where did this saying come from? Did it come from the Bible? Can someone please tell me?! Growing up, I often would hear this.

I have more casual clothes than I do “dressy” and that’s why I would sometimes wear a t-shirt as to not wear the same clothes Sunday after Sunday. Would go shopping but money is a bit tight right now.

My family and I did get all dressed up for Easter Sunday and I felt overdressed because just about everyone else were in their street clothes…

 

[Miserys_Fence]

I love it when you get all worked up.

I bet you’re fun to look at too.

Only until I start swinging my cane and put somebody’s eye out.

So wear whatever you want.

I do.

Arrive early and stay late.

I always arrive early, but leave rather quickly so I don’t have to socialize.

Don’t forget your sunglasses Baby.

Always have 'em with me!

Miz

 

[atassina]

Casual is modest. How you wear casual can be immodest.

 

[Springkeeper]

How you wear casual can be immodest.

I will give you this; at Mass this morning a woman sat in front of me wearing a 3/4 sleeve casual denim dress. All was well until she stood up for communion and her dress was so short she came within a fraction of an inch of showing everyone whether she had on underwear or not. I don’t even want to think what the priest and alter server saw when she genuflected (hopefully their attention was elsewhere). Jeans and a t-shirt would at least not have been a near occasion of sin.

 

[Vjean]

I don’t go to Mass to people-watch, so I don’t know what most other people wear. I’m either watching the priest, or have my head bowed in prayer. To my knowledge, my parish doesn’t have an official dress code.

I wear whatever is convenient–if I go to Eucharistic Adoration right after work, I’m wearing my work clothes (dress pants and a nice shirt) because I don’t have time to change. If I go on my way to/from the farm, I wear jeans and the nicest shirt I have that I don’t care if it gets ruined or torn. Sundays I usually wear dress pants, but if I’m on my way elsewhere that requires outdoorsy-type work, I might wear jeans.

I always wear a headscarf in public, not just to Mass. I keep all of my hair covered.

I see nothing disrepectful about a nice pair of jeans.

Miz

jeans are mens dress so I think they are disrepectful ask St Pio.

 

[white_sheep]

jeans are mens dress so I think they are disrepectful ask St Pio.

Skirts are women’s dress, tell that to the Scots!

Jesus wore a dress.

 

[giuseppeTO]

The Popes thought it important enough to write a dress code into the Code of Canon law. It does not include jeans or t-shirts. The fact that casual clothes (minus coat and tie) are tolerated at Mass is a general symptom of the laxity of the clergy in teaching and inforcing Canon Law.

And please, spare us the examples of homeless folks. They are exempt.

 

[Lycorth]

Skirts are women’s dress, tell that to the Scots!

Jesus wore a dress.

If you tell a Scotsman he’s wearing a skirt, be prepared to receive a broken nose.

Jesus wore a robe, not a dress.

The Popes thought it important enough to write a dress code into the Code of Canon law. It does not include jeans or t-shirts. The fact that casual clothes (minus coat and tie) are tolerated at Mass is a general symptom of the laxity of the clergy in teaching and inforcing Canon Law.

And please, spare us the examples of homeless folks. They are exempt.

Amen. Where order is not enforced, chaos ensues.

This is not a democratic religion; we don’t get to tell God what we think is respectful and expect Him to agree just because we think He should. We’re rank and file soldiers in His army; we follow orders, we do not give them, and then is when the real beauty of the Faith shines forth.

 

[floresco]

After Mass today the priest announced that some people had not been properly dressed and that coming to Church improperly dressed is a sin. He did not single anyone out but said, “You know who you are.” I do not go to this church regularly so I do not know what has been said about this previously. I have the impression that he must have said something more specific earlier.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

This is not a democratic religion; we don’t get to tell God what we think is respectful and expect Him to agree just because we think He should. We’re rank and file soldiers in His army; we follow orders, we do not give them, and then is when the real beauty of the Faith shines forth.

So that “real beauty” shines forth in blind obedience? Last time I checked, our religion wasn’t like that either.

“Rank and file soldiers…” Yeah I can see Richard Dawkins reading that now and laughing his head off.

 

[Lycorth]

So that “real beauty” shines forth in blind obedience? Last time I checked, our religion wasn’t like that either.

Not “blind obedience” but “loyalty” - whose side are you on?

“Rank and file soldiers…” Yeah I can see Richard Dawkins reading that now and laughing his head off.

So? Dawkins would laugh his head off at having the Eucharist explained to him. Should that stop us from doing so?

 

[kozlosap]

We have Greeters and Ushers at most masses at my parish and now I guess we should have the Fashion Police too. No men will wear anything but suits and ties and women will all wear long skirts or dresses with high collars and long sleeves and have a covering on their heads. Of course, next we will also have a monitor to make sure that the veil and burkas (sp) are worn properly. The only people allowed in mass will be those who abide by the standards of the Fashion Spies. What is in their heart will not matter as long as they abide by the rules. And judging one another will become the main name of the game…

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

Not “blind obedience” but “loyalty” - whose side are you on?

There’s a fine line between the two. Learn to distinguish it before you commit the mistake of making the Church out to be like the Taliban.

So? Dawkins would laugh his head off at having the Eucharist explained to him. Should that stop us from doing so?

Thanks for missing my point.

 

[Lycorth]

There’s a fine line between the two. Learn to distinguish it before you commit the mistake of making the Church out to be like the Taliban.

Give me a break; there’s no fine line here. I’d advise you to learn the difference between “blind obedience” and devout loyalty before you commit the error of encouraging modernism in the Church, even if inadvertently.

Thanks for missing my point.

I didn’t miss your point; it doesn’t matter what people like Dawkins think of Catholic traditions or of the Faith. It is not for the Church to mold itself into an image fitting for humans to accept, but for humans to mold themselves according to the faith.

 

[distracted]

No official dress code; women are asked to dress modestly, head coverings are worn by very few and are neither required nor requested; men are reminded to dress as if meeting with their boss, jeans are discouraged to no avail.

what is wrong w/ jeans??

if a person works all day & goes to Mass @ night, he or she may not have time to change clothes…

i say the only thing tht should be discouraged is that which causes the mind to think of erotic stuff…

jeans are not very erotic… (uh… most of them anyhow…)

 

[white_sheep]

The Popes thought it important enough to write a dress code into the Code of Canon law. It does not include jeans or t-shirts. The fact that casual clothes (minus coat and tie) are tolerated at Mass is a general symptom of the laxity of the clergy in teaching and inforcing Canon Law.

Such an attitude is the worst kind of liberalism. If it isn’t specifically in canon law, don’t treat it as if it is. Canon law is to be read in the most restrictive manner so that only things explicitly and clearly spelled out apply.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

Give me a break; there’s no fine line here. I’d advise you to learn the difference between “blind obedience” and devout loyalty before you commit the error of encouraging modernism in the Church, even if inadvertently.

LOL! Could you please read you what you just posted? “There’s no fine line here” followed by telling me to “learn the difference”? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

I didn’t miss your point; it doesn’t matter what people like Dawkins think of Catholic traditions or of the Faith. It is not for the Church to mold itself into an image fitting for humans to accept, but for humans to mold themselves according to the faith.

Dawkins is a dolt, true but it doesn’t help being dolts ourselves when our Church prides itself more reasonable than let’s say, jihadists? Learn to value that reputation please. One of our past Popes sure did.

The Church cannot but set great value upon reason’s drive to attain goals that render people’s lives ever more worthy. It sees in philosophy the way to come to know fundamental truths about human life. At the same time, the Church considers philosophy an indispensable help for a deeper understanding of faith and for communicating the truth of the gospel to those who do not yet know it. - from Fides et Ratio

 

[stinkcat_14]

Wearing jeans in your parents’ home is hardly the same as wearing jeans to Mass, in fact the comparison is utter nonsense.

Actually the comparison is the farthest thing from nonsense. I love and respect my parents much more than I do the pope, not because I have anything against the pope, but because I have a relationship with my parents and the relationship is strong enough to realize that respect is not necessarily correlation with the manner of dress. Now, if my best friend became pope and I went to visit him in the papal apartment to hang out for a bit, you be assured that I would be wearing jeans and a t shirt.

 

[Springkeeper]

The only people allowed in mass will be those who abide by the standards of the Fashion Spies. What is in their heart will not matter as long as they abide by the rules. And judging one another will become the main name of the game…

The most hateful and judgmental people I have ever met are the self-proclaimed tolerant ones. They want everyone else to tolerate whatever they wear (say, do, etc.) but as soon as they encounter someone who does have higher standards of dress or behavior they screech “legalism”, “pharisee”, “taliban”, etc. These are horrifically nasty comments and I have heard and read comments like that and far worse. When I did wear jeans and t-shirts almost exclusively (except at work where I wore camouflage utilities), not a single person said one nasty thing to me about my clothes for 20 years. When I started taking my faith more seriously and dress more conservatively I faced negative comments purely about my type of clothing (and the negative comments were always from women.) What we wear is a reflection of who we are since we as adults choose what we buy and wear (most of the time). The most conformist people of all are the ones who dress just like every teenager at the mall and think “they are so different”.

 

[Lycorth]

LOL! Could you please read you what you just posted? “There’s no fine line here” followed by telling me to “learn the difference”? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

I haven’t shot myself in the foot. There is no fine line and rather a clear difference.

Pride comes before a fall.

Dawkins is a dolt, true but it doesn’t help being dolts ourselves when our Church prides itself more reasonable than let’s say, jihadists? Learn to value that reputation please. One of our past Popes sure did.

How are we being “dolts” by insisting that there are standards of decency to follow?

I clearly value the reputation of the Church, as well as understand the dignity that ought to be shown to the Almighty. What about you?