Post by Pacelli on Aug 30, 2022 10:13:45 GMT -5
There seems to be in our times a confusion among Catholics on yet another issue, this being that during prayer in a Church women must have their heads covered.
This Tradition was taught by St. Paul, whose words were inspired by the Holy Ghost, directly and clearly, in his teaching (Corinthians 1:11)
St. Paul does not teach this merely as a local custom, but gives theological reasons for what he is teaching. Man was created first by God, then the woman who was created to be his helpmate. Man, as St. Paul teaches is "the image and glory of God," while the woman is "the glory of man." St. Paul gives another reason, and appeals to the presence of the Angels, which although he doesn't explain it in detail, implies that they would be offended by the practice of a woman praying in Church without her head covered.
I think it goes without saying how this novel custom of woman not wearing head coverings in Church originated, as we can easily trace it back to the late 1960's and 70's with the rise of feminism in the world, which at its root disputes the perpetual and long held teachings of the Church on the nature of both women and man, by pretending that the nature of men and women are equal.
One simple way of grasping this is that Holy Orders is reserved by God only to men, as is any liturgical role on the altar of God. The nature of man makes this fitting that such functions are reserved only to men, and corresponds very well with St. Paul's explanation on this matter as well. The nature of men differs from the nature of women, and that difference is what is being challenged by feminism, and which has been incorporated into the customs of the Conciliar sect.
This abandonment of St. Paul's teaching, which has been continually the law of the Catholic Church since the beginning, is yet another argument against the Conciliar sect which not only has abandoned the universal (in place and time) custom of female headdress during prayer, but has even dared to allow women to act in liturgical roles.
I will be posting sources in the resourse section to support these assertions, and demonstrate that this custom as taught by St. Paul has always been the mind the of the Church, and further that it is theologically based, not just a local custom of the ancient Corinthians.
My hope is that both men and women who have adopted these ideas, and at the same time still profess the Catholic Faith, may see the root of where these ideas began, with the advent of the philosophical error of feminism along with the Conciliar sect's novelties which are both at odds with the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church. It seems to me that many times people don't think deeply about their ideas, and it also seems to me that many Catholics, even those who love the Catholic Faith, the mass, the rosary, may be unaware that they have innocently adopted, due to the scandal of the Conciliar sect, an idea and practice directly at odds with the apostolic teaching of St. Paul, and the universal custom of the Catholic Church in both the Roman Rite and the East which goes right back to the beginning of the Church itself.
This Tradition was taught by St. Paul, whose words were inspired by the Holy Ghost, directly and clearly, in his teaching (Corinthians 1:11)
1 Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know *that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ, is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraceth his head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her cover her head.
7 The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head: because he is the *image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9 *For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the Angels.
11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.
13 Judge you yourselves: doth it become a woman, to pray to God uncovered?
2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as I delivered them to you.
3 But I would have you know *that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ, is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered, disgraceth his head.
5 But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head: for it is all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if a woman be not covered, let her be shorn. But if it be a shame to a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her cover her head.
7 The man, indeed, ought not to cover his head: because he is the *image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
9 *For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.
10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head, because of the Angels.
11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.
13 Judge you yourselves: doth it become a woman, to pray to God uncovered?
St. Paul does not teach this merely as a local custom, but gives theological reasons for what he is teaching. Man was created first by God, then the woman who was created to be his helpmate. Man, as St. Paul teaches is "the image and glory of God," while the woman is "the glory of man." St. Paul gives another reason, and appeals to the presence of the Angels, which although he doesn't explain it in detail, implies that they would be offended by the practice of a woman praying in Church without her head covered.
I think it goes without saying how this novel custom of woman not wearing head coverings in Church originated, as we can easily trace it back to the late 1960's and 70's with the rise of feminism in the world, which at its root disputes the perpetual and long held teachings of the Church on the nature of both women and man, by pretending that the nature of men and women are equal.
One simple way of grasping this is that Holy Orders is reserved by God only to men, as is any liturgical role on the altar of God. The nature of man makes this fitting that such functions are reserved only to men, and corresponds very well with St. Paul's explanation on this matter as well. The nature of men differs from the nature of women, and that difference is what is being challenged by feminism, and which has been incorporated into the customs of the Conciliar sect.
This abandonment of St. Paul's teaching, which has been continually the law of the Catholic Church since the beginning, is yet another argument against the Conciliar sect which not only has abandoned the universal (in place and time) custom of female headdress during prayer, but has even dared to allow women to act in liturgical roles.
I will be posting sources in the resourse section to support these assertions, and demonstrate that this custom as taught by St. Paul has always been the mind the of the Church, and further that it is theologically based, not just a local custom of the ancient Corinthians.
My hope is that both men and women who have adopted these ideas, and at the same time still profess the Catholic Faith, may see the root of where these ideas began, with the advent of the philosophical error of feminism along with the Conciliar sect's novelties which are both at odds with the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church. It seems to me that many times people don't think deeply about their ideas, and it also seems to me that many Catholics, even those who love the Catholic Faith, the mass, the rosary, may be unaware that they have innocently adopted, due to the scandal of the Conciliar sect, an idea and practice directly at odds with the apostolic teaching of St. Paul, and the universal custom of the Catholic Church in both the Roman Rite and the East which goes right back to the beginning of the Church itself.