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Infused Knowledge ^ | 4-10-10 | Rachel Gray

[mlizzy]

... It was partly because of the veils that I loved the TLM more than the regular Mass. My distracted mind is incapable of the kind of worship I'd like to render, but every little bit helps.

However, now my behavior was inconsistent. Our Lord is just as present and just as worthy of adoration at a Novus Ordo Mass (although the NO Mass does not demonstrate this fact nearly as well), but I was veiling only on Sundays and not for the other six Masses of the week.

Of course this was because there weren't very many women wearing veils at the NO Masses, and I was worrying: What will people think? My great fear was that folks would see me walk in with a veil and think that I was making some grand STATEMENT, something like "Tradition rules and you're all Novus Ordo heretics!" or, "I wear a mantilla and I am holier than thou," or else, "The Bible says to cover your head, sinner!" or even just "Pay attention to me!" I wasn't an older woman who could claim to be nostalgic for the customs of my youth, nor was I from Korea or the Philippines or some place where veils are more common. I was young and a recent convert from a casual jeans-wearing Evangelical denomination; everyone would know I was self-consciously and deliberately adopting a tradition that had never been mine before. I was afraid people would snort, "What does she think she's doing?"

[mlizzy]

Great article by a gifted Catholic writer (with a super sense of humor) ... h/t to my friend in California, Jim Aroo, for telling me about Rachel's writings ...

[vladimir998]

Veils, ever so slowly, are starting to make a comeback.

[pepperdog]

Anyone here old enough to remember attending Mass before school (parochial school of course) and not having a scarf to wear, so substituting a kleenex?

[OpusatFR]

I like wearing a veil. It feels sheltered and enclosed when praying after communion, just me and the Presence.

[OpusatFR]

Yes. Attached with the black bobby pin!

[mlizzy]

2. There's zero temptation to wear anything grungy, sleeveless, or low cut-- it'd look weird with a veil.

I get upset sometimes with the dress (or lack thereof) of so many at Mass, yet I never see this type of disrespect at a TLM.

[Iscool]

Wouldn’t a veil normally cover the face???

[maryz]

not having a scarf to wear, so substituting a kleenex?

. . . if the nuns didn't catch you! ;-)

[cmj328]

The sins of prior generations led God to chastise us with Vatican II.

[maryz]

Not these. There are lots of kinds of veils: brides (some anyway) walk down the aisle with a layer of tulle from the veil over the face; widows' weeds (which I've only seen in movies or read about) have veils that cover the face.

The veils she's talking about are just triangles of lace -- two are shown in the picture if you'll scroll up. The pictures are from behind, but you can see (especially the girl on the left) that the face isn't covered.

[Salvation]

A picture from these two previous threads:

 

But things changed dramatically around 1970. The photo above was taken in 1969 at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Canton, Massachusetts. It was the end of an era.

Adore the Lord in Holy Attire – On Proper Dress for Mass
Adore the Lord in Holy Attire – On Proper Dress for Mass

[Salvation]

Oops -- try these;

Adore the Lord in Holy Attire – On Proper Dress for Mass
Adore the Lord in Holy Attire – On Proper Dress for Mass

[mlizzy]

Thanks Salvation. Beautiful photograph. Wow, things have surely changed.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Here's the Technically Permissible but Inappropriate Substitutes for the Mantilla from one always-interesting Shrine of the Holy Whapping website:

1. Doily
2. Baseball cap with "I (Heart) Hans Kung" on it
3. Black bandanna with skulls and crossbones (unless it's November 2)
4. Wig (unsuccessful marketing campaign: "The Stealth Mantilla.")
5. Balloon animal hat
6. Cardinal's galero
7. Hard hat with beer cans strapped to the sides.
8. Phrygian cap (1789 was a bad year)
9. Rubber Nixon mask (JFK might be permissible in some circles)
10. Spiked helmet (unless you are a girl Hohenzollern, and if so, my apologies.)
11. Lampshade
12. Ninja facemask
13. Urban Sombrero
14. Souvenir Statue of Liberty crown
15. Whatever that thing Subcommandante Marcos is always wearing
16. Man's toupee
17. Inverted tupperware container
18. Plastic shopping bag
19. Full-body gorilla costume
20. Deep-sea diving bell

Also, if you have no hair, a mantilla is unnecessary: so please, no using double-sided tape to stick it to your baby's head.

[BunnySlippers]

Catholic girl’s school here. Blue and white uniforms, but white uniforms and white gloves on First Friday. Saddle shoes. Raiding Holy Wafers when running wild.

[maryz]

LOL! In our school, we were pushing it dangerously by wearing a headscarf! (Remember the uproar when Jackie Kennedy attended a summer Mass on the Cape wearing a headscarf? Nothing to what we got!)

[RnMomof7]

Ahh the Muslims love it

[Mrs. Don-o]

Aah but Lady Gaga ab-hijabba-lootly can not stand it...

[fanfan]

Kleenex attached with Bobbi-pins, by my Aunt.

“What do you mean you didn’t bring a hat for church?”

;-)

[pepperdog]

And responding “deo gratias” (Thanks be to God) to “ite missa est” (go the Mass is ended) with more feeling than one should! Oh, we were so bad!