Look no further than the canonized female saints of the Church, then. It’s not about whether God will purify you or not whether you wear a veil. It’s about what was done in the Church up until the feminist movement of the 1960s. I ask anyone here who says it is no longer “culturally relevant” why we want to be emulating the current feminist culture, exactly?
We are meant to become like Saints. A veil will not make you a Saint. But a purified soul will. And a purified soul will give you a halo.
To tell me to look no further then canonized Saints? well that is lovely but they are an example of what we are meant to also become, they show us how to also become a Saint.
I am more then happy to contemplate the veil idea. But can you prove to me that is going to make me a Saint ?
Going back to what we had before 1960 and telling me what St Paul also says doesn’t cut it with me, because the bible also told us to become like Light. No point in wearing a veil if you can’t also wear the inner garments of Light. Because when you stand before the Lord one day and take your head covering off, do you not think he is also going to judge you on your inner garments and if you have become like Light?
I am not waiting until purgatory to become more purified. I chucked the veil idea out and exchanged it for effort in trying to fit into the inner garments. When I see more Saints in the congregation I might think about the outer garments more.
We have a Magisterium to tell us what is ok and what isn’t. If the Magisterium brings in compulsory head coverings for women, I am fine with that and if I then choose to go against it, then you can correct me as I am going against Church teachings. But me and others not wearing a veil isn’t going against the Church, and the Church not having compulsory wearing of veils isn’t going against the Lord. Because the Church has been given the power on earth to make veils compulsory or not. Just as the earlier Church didn’t make priestly celibacy compulsory in the Roman Rite but now does.
Look if it is ok with the veil wearers, I’d prefer to sit next to someone who is trying to fit a halo on their head so they might be able to assist me to do the same, then sit next to someone wearing a veil but hasn’t a clue on how to become like Light.
Please do not judge me and I will not judge you. I also have absolutely no problem with woman wearing veils. My concern though with some telling others this is the only right and proper thing to do, is the risk that we will go back to a past where we had a whole lot of woman wearing veils, but no clue on how to purify their souls, or knew they could or should or knew how to do so. A congregation that saw Saints as these extra blessed souls, or as people who no longer can exist.
We are meant to become like Saints. My soul loves the veil idea, but, that is only because she first went through periods of purgation and I got to see my soul. God focused on my inner garments first, because it is my inner garment that is going to have a better chance of getting into Heaven then what I wear on the outside.
People sometimes can not see the other meaning behind why things have changed in the Church. Everything that people complain has changed for the worst, I actually see a more positive reason coming from it. One of those is that many do not like change, and if you don’t like change and can’t get used to change, how do you suppose you are going to be able to go along with the change that God is wanting to bring about in your soul and inner being? because it is a hard road at times this purgation experience. But if you look at the Saints of the past, you will people who have gone through this to become what they were meant to become.
Let the dead Saints teach you to become living Saints. Stop trying to tell others they are more shameful and less reverent and concentrate on making yourself thus inside.
I want people in our Church to become like Light so they can show by example and teach others to do the same. I want those who can become living Saints to set the example that the past Saints have.
If you can show me a congregation of veil wears who have become like Light within themselves, then I assure you I am going to listen.
I will contemplate the veil idea more if the veil wearers can also contemplate walking the path to Saintliness more. And part of that path is letting go of the idea of trying to control others, it is getting used to change, it is letting go of our wishes so that we can thus allow our wish to be only whatever it is that God wishes.
I would never lector, and I can’t fathom why a woman who veils would either.