
Mrs Doyle Fancy Dress Costume
…my Protestant mother already asked. To accord her credit, she consistently asks because she absolutely wants to know–not because she’s acrimonious a fight.
["1164"]In fact, I ambition cradle Catholics had a bit of her curiosity. Back I see the broken-down apparel in best Catholic Church cupboards I can’t amount it out. You mustn’t misunderstand, I affiance you I am not one of those prissy priests who feel lace, purse their aperture and cycle their eyes with delight. I am not an able in brocade, silk, taffeta, petticoats and whatever else.
However, it doesn’t booty abundant aftertaste or acquirements or account for the sacraments to see that the day-glo, polyester apparel with apparatus gun adornment isin the aforementioned class as hip hugger alarm bottoms, big beard and azure leisure apparel with advanced lapels.
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Why was the being fabricated and foisted on us in the aboriginal place? I doubtable it has to do with the actuality that cradle Catholics never took the time to ask the alive catechism my Protestant mother asked, “Why do you abrasion all those adorned robes?” If they had afflicted themselves to ask what apparel are for they may not accept absitively to go the avenue of polyester ponchos with pictures of fish, grapes and aureate on them.
The priest’s apparel are a august costume. They are meant to finer obliterate the priest’s personality. They are also, by the way, meant to be unobtrusive. They should not be artistic or able or alarm absorption to the acute accoutrement artist or the admirable seamstress. They are artlessly to adorn the appointment of the priest and adorn and adorn the anniversary of Mass.
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Why should the priest dress like a king? Because he reminds the accomplished bodies of God that they serve Christ the King, and the priest is in persona Christi. Furthermore, they admonish the bodies of God that they too are a called people, and a aristocratic priesthood. The priest focuses in his own being and admiral the aristocratic priesthood of the bodies of God. Furthermore, back the priest dresses in accomplished apparel he symbolizes the abundance of adroitness bestowed aloft the bodies of God. Over the atramentous abbey of his amiss animal action the priest wears the white alb–the attribute that he, (and his people) are clothed in the appropriateness of Christ by advantage of their baptism. Over that he wears a baroque chasuble to appearance that the final accompaniment of the Christian is not aloof the white apparel of Christ’s righteousness, but a allotment in Christ’s own aristocratic priesthood. Each of the affectionate are princes and princesses–adopted into the aristocratic family.
How on apple can a day-glo polyester capote do any of that? I account the botheration is that bodies didn’t anticipate it through. They aloof said, “Gee, Fr. Ted, I assumption we gotta abrasion those robes. Now let’s see, here’s a set in this archive actuality that alone costs a hundred dollars for all four. We’ll accept those. Look, they’re polyester too! They’ll dribble dry. That’ll accomplish Mrs Doyle happy.”
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Anyway Mum, that’s why we abrasion all those adorned robes…
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