I thought wearing a chapel veil was for covering your beautiful hair during Mass, so you would not distract Men--either way--being most holy or having most beautiful hair--I guess I don't qualify.
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
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What happens when the fountain freezes over?
A thoroughly modern title to your post. Didn't I see you on YouTube, singing a few bars?
It's a sign!
I vowed to begin the Counter Reformation when this fountain froze over.
Brush the dust off that chapel veil!
No chapel veil.
Just learned from my teenager that the wearing of a veil by a woman is indicative of her being below males in society.
To paraphrase one of your readers earlier comments about your fesitvial: I'm not wearing no stinking veil.
I will, however, wish you the very best success in your efforts with the Counter Reformation. And really, do have a lovely day.
That which is most holy is veiled.
I thought wearing a chapel veil was for covering your beautiful hair during Mass, so you would not distract Men--either way--being most holy or having most beautiful hair--I guess I don't qualify.
I think bald men -- whose heads have a particular gleam -- should wear chapel veils so the glare won't blind the congregation.
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