here<\/a> a little while ago for Padre Longenecker, but hey hon. It\u2019s okay. The Pope is the Pope. Maybe he don\u2019t dress like Papa Benedict, but everybody has a different gift. This man is brown shoes not red shoes. You know?<\/p>\nAlso, I been very busy. My company, Veritas Vestments got a big order from some traditionalist priests in California so we have been busy trying to make all these vestments. Madre de Dios! Do these California priests ever got taste! Let me tell you h0n, these guys know their stuff! I am seeing pictures of them with their nice shoes and vestments. I call them the brogue and brocade brigade. My father always tell me you can judge a man by his shoes. You know what I mean hon? The girls in the office are getting all red in the face over those shoes. So I am telling them, \u201cGirls, forget the brogues. Pay attention to the brocade.\u201d We are making these sets of vestments and it is not cheap you know what I mean hon?<\/p>\n
So I am learning about the Catholic Church in California when one of the priests sends me pictures of the new cathedral in California. He say it is called Crystal Cathedral and it was built by a Protestant but now it is called Christ Cathedral and the bishop has bought it and they are going to make it for Catholic Church. At first I am thinking, \u201cCrystal Cathedral. Madre de Dios. It look like somebody make it who is on crystal meths.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ok hon. So hold on. I am trying to be open minded, but at first I am saying, \u201cWhat is this a greenhouse for growing lots of tomatoes?\u201d Not that I have anything against tomatoes. Every year in Spain we have a nice time doing a big tomato fight, but a cathedral like a greenhouse? So I am talking about this with my fianc\u00e9 Augusto and he say, \u201cSo what\u2019s wrong with an unusual cathedral, don\u2019t we have the Sagrada Familia by Gaudi? Maybe you should be more open minded!\u201d says Augusto.<\/p>\n
OK hon. So maybe he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
Think about it. It\u2019s California. This is the home of Walt Disney and Hollywood and cowboys right? Maybe if they build some gothic church it would be fake anyway, you know like Cinderella\u2019s castle at Disneyland, so what are they going to do? It\u2019s the twenty first century. It\u2019s a big problem and I make vestments, not cathedrals. How do you make a modern cathedral in a city of skyscrapers. It\u2019s not easy hon. It\u2019s not easy. Maybe you just build something modern, but then they show me the cathedral in Los Angeles. It look like a shopping center or a parking garage. Not for me hon.<\/p>\n
But the Crystal Cathedral? I think maybe it is nice in its way. I\u2019m thinking of those Gothic churches in France like Sainte Chappelle. Isn\u2019t that what they wanted to do? Make those thin walls and fill them with glass? And what does a cathedral do. It\u2019s supposed to lift you up to heaven. Maybe this church does that. What do you think? I\u2019m open minded about it. Maybe its the best they could do\u2013after all it is California. What do you expect?<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m saying maybe it\u2019s okay. But now I ask what kind of vestments do you want for a church like that? Maybe space age stuff made out of lycra and tin foil? I don\u2019t think so hon. Polyester with pictures of grapes and wheat? No way.<\/p>\n
This is where the vestments still need to be made traditional. Just simple, good fabrics with simple craftsmanship. Nothing too fancy, but nothing to cheap or flimsy. \u00a0To tell you the truth hon, the most simple, traditional vestments, like the most simple, but good quality liturgy: they both look good anywhere. It\u2019s like my grandmother used to say about black dresses. \u201cA simple black dress?\u201d it look good in a palace and in a pauper\u2019s hut. Same thing with good vestments made in a traditional way. They look good in a space ship church or a gothic cathedral.<\/p>\n
I wish they give me a chance to design something for them. I sure they won\u2019t be disappointed. \u201cVeritas Vestments to the rescue!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 Guest blogger Mantilla Amontillado is the founder of Veritas Vestments. She holds a degree in Ecclesiastical Haberdashery from Salamanca University. She has done the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella three times on horseback and is engaged to the famous matador, Senor Augusto Torquemada. OK hon, I got to say \u201cSorry\u201d for maybe not writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":13795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4,227,35,94],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mantilla-the-hon","tag-alter-egos","tag-catholic-culture","tag-catholic-faith","tag-humor"],"yoast_head":"\n
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