Day: July 31, 2013

Buy some stuff and make a nun!

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A little while ago I advertised that my friend Jenna has been accepted into a religious order that cares for terminal cancer patients who cannot afford care. The only thing stopping her entering is her student debt. She’s got 46 days left to raise the rest of the money.

If you’d like to help turn Jenna into a nun, and would like to do some shopping at the same time, please click on the link below buy some stuff! Remember, Christmas is only five months away…

Jenna

If you enter the code SUMMERTRAVEL you’ll even get a discount…

A few thoughts on head coverings

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Mantilla A friend of mine recently asked me about the veils worn by female parishioners at a church she had visited. I didn’t have much to say since, being a boy, I hadn’t given too much thought to the subject of frilly lace…

My first real exposure to the chapel veil and mantilla was in Washington DC, when I went to my first Extraordinary Form Mass at the Basilica. If you have attended a Latin Mass you may well have noticed them too.

However, it’s not like the use of veils is restricted only to “traditional” Catholics. I’ve occasionally seen veils at English Novus Ordo liturgies. Additionally, the reason that there aren’t many good photos of me at my First Holy Communion is because, in most pictures, my face is partially or wholly obscured by a veil belonging to one of the girls in my class! But the most common prevailing use of the veil is, of course, by a bride at her wedding.

I tried to do a little bit of research on the history and theology of veils but I unfortunately didn’t find a lot of good source material, so if you know a lot about veils or have any good resources you’d like to share, please respond in the Comment Box below.

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