When to Wear a Chapel Veil?

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Hi! Lately I’ve been trying to figure out when I can wear my chapel veil. I was wondering if when I’m praying with another person (e.g. at home) I could wear my chapel veil? I’m just curious because in Matthew 18:20 it says, “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” I always wear my veil in the presence of Jesus Christ, so I wonder if anyone has any (name removed by moderator)ut on this 😁
 
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Sometimes I veil for private prayer, other times I do not. This is a personal choice.
 
I say veil whenever you feel a calling from God to do so. All the time, some time or never.
There are different types of head coverings that you can use for different occasions too. Example the Jewish women’s head coverings can be pretty fashionable (enough to wear all day long and for different occasions)
 
HI, there is another thread going on Head coverings. Welcome to CAF

There are no rules about wearing a head covering. Wear it when you believe it is right to do so. Trust your own judgement and discernment
 
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The traditional code of canon law from 1917 states in canon 1262: “Men, in a church or outside a church, while they are assisting at sacred rites, shall be bare-headed, unless the approved mores of the people or peculiar circumstances of things determine otherwise; women, however, shall have a covered head and be modestly dressed, especially when they approach the table of the Lord.”
This practice of veiling dates back to the Apostles and continued in every generation of the church, was commanded by St Paul under divine inspiration in Sacred Scripture, by Linus the 2nd pope, and many church fathers.
(This Apostolic tradition was not included as an explicit commandment in the 1983 code as it had always been previously.)

Here’s a neat article with simple Q&A: Frequently Asked Questions - Chapel Veils
Here’s a very full explanation of veiling: https://www.prayinglatin.com/veiling/
And here from Taylor Marshall on Pope Linus: Saint Linus: A Martyr Pope Concerned about Chapel Veils - Taylor Marshall

So to answer your question directly, the tradition is to wear in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, but you can also wear it whenever you pray as a devotion.
 
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Typically when in a Catholic church in the presence of the tabernacle but I do know women who wear them at home also when praying. It is a beautiful devotion.
 
In canon 6.1 the 1983 code says the 1917 code ia abrogated.
The practice is not required by the Code of Csnon law even if it is a beautiful custom.
 
Like everyone else, you can wear it anytime you want. You can even cover your head 24/7 should you wish. You have plenty of freedom over this, so do what feels right to you.
 
Yes, Jesus does want all of us.
I also believe that as a woman covering my head is more than a simple pious practice, but right now due to change (omission) in the code of canon law 1983 there is (for now) a break in the continuous tradition (and we can say that about a lot of Catholic teachings but that’s another story). Because of that, a woman who believes that she is neither called upon, nor does she desire to (for whatever reason) cover her head at Mass or at prayer is free to do as she chooses.

I do think that, as time goes on, more and more women will choose–and I mean choose freely–to wear a covering, and to attend Mass more frequently, and to engage in many pious practices that have over the last 5 decades or so appeared to lapse or disappear in so many places, such as Family Rosaries, home altars, etc. Many people here already engage in such things. It is a rediscovering and renewed appreciation of the sacred.

I believe something that will draw people is the joy, the humble joy, of women who are choosing and rediscovering the sacred through tradition. Right now because this is something ‘seen’ as so different there are perceptions which are wrong and extremist; on the one hand, the idea that a woman in a headcovering is vain, elitist, proud, and threatening; on the other that a woman not in a headcovering is equally vain, elitist, proud, and threatening. Both positions are wrong.

While the woman who covers I believe will draw others more than those who do not (a situation thus reversing the subtle ‘change’ of the late 1960s and the 1970s where women who just ‘stopped’ wearing coverings seemed to ‘draw in’ women who until then not only wore coverings but did so out of a true respect for God, and whose only reason for stopping was being told both that the practice was not only not respectful but rather ‘a coercion’ and also’ no longer needed or desired), I do not believe that women even today who do not choose headcovering, for whatever reason, are WRONG in their choice; they obey their conscience. I do think though that the more the custom spreads, and the more women receive full, frank, and thorough information of authentic Catholic teaching and practices, that more women WILL cover. . .but again, freely, and thus, with joy, humility, and gratitude.
 
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To wear the veil is to be in direct connection with all those holy women and what they believed and practiced for 2000 years.
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This, yes. I simply love the thought of being in connection with those holy women and their great faith and devotion to Christ. This is what I think is drawing many of the younger women into more pious devotions. They are looking at the great virtuies of the women of Church history.
 
You can wear a veil or not. No judgement on those don’t. A pious practice only, and let’s be very clear on this fact. So often on these posts there’s an implication that somehow women who don’t choose to wear a veil (I would never wear one) are “less” Catholic than others.
 
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Do you have a reference for the mortal sin portion of your post?
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Absolutely. See my citation from the 1917 code of canon law. Also the church fathers and even St Paul himself very strongly condemn women unveiling their heads in church.

1 Cor 11:5-6 “But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven. For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or made bald, let her cover her head.”

St Paul here condemns the practice very firmly saying a woman who does not veil her head in church should have her head shaved and calls it a disgrace. Pope Linus the 2nd pope solemnly commanded all women in all churches everywhere to cover their heads when they pray. These are not light commands. Seems very important to St Paul and Peter’s first successors, not to mention the church fathers at large. Wonder why it was so important that they would make such stern commands?
 
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Here’s a pretty strong quote from a very holy Church father:
St Clement of Alexandria in the 3rd century states, “This is the wish of the Logos [Jesus Christ] since it is becoming of the women to be veiled” (Instructions 3:11)

Deus Vult!
 
No. I asked you where it was defined as a mortal sin by the Church.
 
Yes I answered. 1917 Code of canon law. To violate that command of the church was a mortal sin.
 
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