A new generation of worshippers is longing for a ‘lost type of Catholicism’ — and among young women, veils are making a comeback...

I have noticed a marked increase in women wearing mantillas to Mass, and not just older women, either; a lot of young-to-middle aged women are wearing them now. Years ago, you never saw them after about 1970 or so.

Wolseley said:

I have noticed a marked increase in women wearing mantillas to Mass, and not just older women, either; a lot of young-to-middle aged women are wearing them now. Years ago, you never saw them after about 1970 or so.

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There’s only one or two women at my church that wear them at the Mass I go to.

St. Paul's teaching on this matter is not bound to time or culture, but to the glory of God and btw the Natural Moral Law revealed by reason:

1Cor 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
1Co 11:4 Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,
1Co 11:5 but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head—it is the same as if her head were shaven.
1Co 11:6 For if a woman will not veil herself, then she should cut off her hair; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her wear a veil.
1Co 11:7 For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
1Co 11:8 (For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
1Co 11:9 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.)
1Co 11:10 That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels.
1Co 11:11 (Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
1Co 11:12 for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.)
1Co 11:13 Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
1Co 11:14 Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
1Co 11:15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
1Co 11:16 If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

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This finally convinced me of the importance that women ought to veil their heads.
It is important to God: "I want you to understand " this. [The man] "is the image and glory of God; but [and] woman is the glory of man."
It is in the Natural Moral Law: "Does not nature itself teach you..."
It is timeless for the Church:" If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God."

And since we are to always be in prayer, and before God - and because of the angels :
"That is why a woman ought to have a veil on her head, because of the angels."
My wife always wears the veil.

I veil because it stills and quiets my mind

Its like a form of precious privacy where He and I alone are dwelling with all love and humility

It makes me weep sometimes

joymercy said:

I veil because it stills and quiets my mind

Its like a form of precious privacy where He and I alone are dwelling with all love and humility

It makes me weep sometimes

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isn't this the case with all resting with God in "the obedience of faith". True obedience to God brings peace, deep secure peace. And sometimes it brings tears. A holy friend of mine, now deceased, used to say "following Jesus and learning from Him Who is Truth, is like peeling back an onion, layer by layer of mysteries. And sometimes we cry."

FYI:

If anyone is interested, this year's 'Catholic Identity Conference' is being held the weekend of September 27-29, 2004.
(I 'attended' it last year, and thought it was very good.)

For $20 (Early Registration fee), it can be 'attended' live online ...
or the archived talks can be viewed later.

For more info:

I have a black veil I forget to wear.

At the Catholic Identity Conference last nite in Pittsburgh, Bishop Athanasius Schneider gave a talk. At the conclusion of his talk, he and the conference attendees publicly made a "Profession of Faith in Jesus Christ and His Church as the only path to God and to eternal salvation".

This profession was written by Bishop Schneider in response to the recent public statement by Pope Francis that "all religions are a path to God".

The profession:


We unshakably believe and profess what the ordinary and universal Magisterium of the Church has continuously and infallibly taught since the time of the Apostles, namely,

That faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God and only Savior of mankind, is the only religion willed by God.

After the institution of the new and everlasting Covenant in Jesus Christ, no one may be saved by adherence to the teachings and practices of non-Christian religions. Because “the prayer, which is directed to God, must be linked with Christ, the Lord of all people, the one Mediator (1 Tm 2:5; Heb 8:6; 9:15; 12:24) through whom alone we have access to God (Rom 5:2; Eph 2:18; 3:12).” (General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, n. 6)

We firmly believe that “there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), except the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead (cf. Acts 4:10).

We believe that it is “contrary to the Catholic faith to consider the Church as one way of salvation alongside those constituted by the other religions, seen as complementary to the Church or substantially equivalent to her, even if these are said to be converging with the Church toward the eschatological kingdom of God” (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration Dominus Iesus, 21).

We furthermore hold that Divine Revelation, faithfully transmitted by the Church’s perennial Magisterium, forbids affirming:

That all religions are paths to God,

That the diversity of religious identities is a gift of God, and

That the diversity of religions is an expression of the wise will of God the Creator.

We hold, therefore, that Christians are not simply “travelling companions” along with adherents of false religions — which God forbids.

We fervently implore the help of Divine grace for all those churchmen today who, by their words and deeds, contradict the Divinely revealed truth about Jesus Christ and His Church as the only path by which men can reach God and eternal salvation. With the help of divine grace, may these churchmen be enabled to offer a public retraction, required for the good of their own soul and the souls of others. For “not accepting Christ is the greatest danger for the world!” (St. Hilary of Poitiers, In Matth. 18).

By the prayers, tears and sacrifices of all the true sons and daughters of the Church, and especially of the “little ones” in the Church, may the Shepherds of the Church, and first and foremost Pope Francis, receive the grace to emulate the Apostles, countless Martyrs, numerous Holy Roman Pontiffs and a multitude of Saints, especially St. Francis of Assisi, who “was a Catholic and an entirely apostolic man, who set about personally and commanded his disciples to occupy themselves before everything else with the conversion of the heathen to the Faith and Law of Christ.” (Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Rite Expiatis, 37)

We believe and, with God’s grace, are ready to give our lives for this Divine truth pronounced by Jesus Christ: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).