{"id":261072,"date":"2017-12-12T06:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&p=261072"},"modified":"2017-12-12T06:56:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:56:46","slug":"epic-veil-why-more-young-women-are-wearing-chapel-veils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2017\/12\/epic-veil-why-more-young-women-are-wearing-chapel-veils\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic VEIL: why more young women are wearing chapel veils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

From the web site Fashionista:<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Samantha Skinner, a high school science teacher in North Dakota, is one Catholic millennial interested in a return to tradition. Raised loosely Protestant but not a regular church attendee until she converted to Catholicism in college, Skinner began wearing a veil to mass every week before she\u2019d even completed the classes necessary to formalize her conversion. A conversation with a friend who worked in a \u201choly bookstore\u201d convinced Skinner to try the practice for herself.<\/p>\n

Related: My Wife Started Wearing a Veil to Mass<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt just kind of resonated with me,\u201d she says on the phone. For Skinner, the appeal of veiling was initially an emotional one: It made her feel humbled and reverent, like removing a hat during the national anthem or at a funeral might, and made her more able to focus on prayer\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Some Catholics in big coastal cities like New York, where churches tend to be more liberal in both their theology and politics, may never even see the veiling that is becoming more and more commonplace in the Midwest.\u00a0Grace Carney, a womenswear designer for Public School<\/a> who grew up in the Catholic church in Minnesota and now attends Queen of All Saints in Fort Greene, confirms the idea that the practice varies by region.<\/p>\n

Related: Will Wearing a Veil Keep Me Better Focused on Mass?<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any [veils] here in NYC, really,\u201d she says via text message. But in the church she grew up in, Carney notes, \u201cthere were always a bunch of homeschooled kids and they would wear them.\u201d<\/p>\n

For proof that the veiling community is indeed growing and active outside of cities like New York, one need look no further than\u00a0Veils by Lily<\/a>. The mom-and-pop retailer started by Lily Wilson in 2010 has over 17,000 likes on Facebook<\/a> and an engaged customer base that not only buys product, but also regularly shares the retailer\u2019s posts and sends in pictures and letters of thanks. Since its founding, Veils by Lily\u00a0has grown from one homeschooling mother\u2019s side project into a full-time job for the founder and 11 employees. Soon, Wilson will open a brick-and-mortar retail space, which she believes will be the first store in America to focus on chapel veils.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read on.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Footnote: I wonder how much this is an American phenomenon\u2014and one that appeals to a certain (relatively small) tradition-minded segment of the Catholic population. When we visited Rome for the Jubilee for Deacons last year, my wife packed a veil and wore it for the big papal Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Square. I didn\u2019t keep a tally, but the number of women with veils seemed few and far between at the different liturgies we attended.\u00a0 I\u2019d be curious to hear how this is going over in other parts of the world. (On a hunch, I suspect it\u2019s very big in the Philippines. Elsewhere, I\u2019m not so sure.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> A great observation from one of my Facebook readers\u2026<\/p>\n

Awesome, good, healthy: People who choose to wear it, because it helps them enter into a deeper encounter with Christ in the Mass.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not awesome, not good, not healthy, Part 1: People who believe that it is the only proper way to express humility, and who begin to judge those who don\u2019t wear a chapel veil. I\u2019ve heard teens talk about moms who will stand around and critique all of the \u201cimmodest\u201d attire of the young women. This can be especially poisonous in a youth group, particularly given adolescents and their inherent insecurities around body image, self-worth, and moral purity.<\/p>\n

Not awesome, not good, not healthy, Part 2: Self-identified \u201cVatican II Catholics\u201d who reciprocate (sometimes with even more self-righteousness) the judgment and cast aspersions on the families or young women who do choose to wear the veil.<\/p>\n

Honest to God, if parish staff and pious pewsitters spent HALF as much collective energy asking, \u201cHow can we go out to the local farmers market and invite young adults to get re-connected with their faith?\u201d as they do sitting around passing judgment on the number of young adults who ARE in the pews, but wearing jeans, sweatshirts, or flip flops\u2026 I think we\u2019d be an awful lot closer to the missionary mandate of Matthew 28 and the pastoral priorities of Pope Francis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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