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 Toroquilla<\/em><\/p>\nOK Hon, Listen. I\u2019m really busy trying to set up my new business. It\u2019s called Veritas Vestments because you have heard of the term \u2018fashion statement\u2019? Well, that\u2019s right. What you wear is what you say, and my vestments are going to speak the truth you\u00a0know?<\/p>\n
Somebody say, \u201cActions speak louder than words.\u201d Mantilla says, \u201cClothes speak louder than words.\u201d and talk about loud clothes, phew! Madre de Dio, have you see those vestments that the lady bishops are wearing in the Protestant churches? Sometime Father Longenecker sends me links and pictures and says, \u201cHey Mantilla what do you think?\u201d He does this because he like to see me blow a fuse, you know? He says I\u2019m one little hot tamale.<\/p>\n
So he send me this picture of three women dressed up like bishops. He says it is in Sweden and they are Lutherans. I look at the picture and first thing is I\u2019m not sure if they are women or men at all. I think for sure the one on the right is a woman dressed like a bishop and that\u2019s pretty funny. But with the other two I\u2019m not sure. I think the one in the middle is maybe a woman who looks like a man\u00a0and the one on the\u00a0left is maybe a man who looks like a woman. But how you going to know nowadays? Put people in the same clothes, and make it long robes and who can tell? What you going to do, lift up their cassock and check? Anyway I think Father likes to send me these guessing games sometimes.<\/p>\n
But I take his word for it and all three are women dressed up like bishops. Is this Halloween or something when they are all wearing costume? \u201cNo\u201d Father Longenecker tells me that some Protestants like Lutherans and Anglicans also have bishops and they let women and lesbians be bishops too and they all\u00a0dress up like a bishop and everything.I don\u2019t know about all that. It seems crazy to me, but hon, have you seen what they are wearing? You can tell they are heretics by what they are wearing. Heresy is something that is almost true, or true up to a point, and that\u2019s the same with these vestments. I got to be honest with you hon. They look to me like a cross between a horse blanket and a costume from that old TV show, Lost in Space<\/em>. Father Longenecker say that the women kind of look like aliens too, but I had to scold him because he\u2019s a priest and he\u2019s supposed to be nice to people.<\/p>\nBut there is a serious point hon. Listen. Why don\u2019t these people want to have a traditional cope and miter? It\u2019s because they hate tradition, that\u2019s why. They wear radical clothes because they are radical people. They wear clothes that express themselves rather than expressing the office they hold. I remember one time in Barcelona we get this young bishop who said he didn\u2019t want to wear a miter and a cope and ring and all the bishop\u2019s special vestments because he doesn\u2019t want to be special and he doesn\u2019t think he is any better than anybody else. Mgr. Quixote, who was my professor of Ecclesiastical Haberdashery at Salamanca University took him aside and said, \u201cYour Grace, with the greatest respect, everybody already agrees with you. They don\u2019t think you\u2019re so special either.\u201d The new bishop kind of misses the point hon because he says, \u201cReally! Then I won\u2019t wear them. I think they embarrass me. I don\u2019t want them to be looking at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
So Monsignor Quixote says, \u201cWhat I mean is they don\u2019t think it\u2019s all about you. They want to see the Bishop. They are not coming to see you. They are coming to see the Church and the Bishop stands for the Church. The Bishop\u2019s robes\u00a0do something very important your grace. They block you out. With any luck you will get your wish and no one will see you at all. Then when you\u2019re gone the next bishop will wear the same cope and miter and they won\u2019t see him either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucky this priest is pretty smart, so he says, \u201cYou mean instead of the fancy robes making me special they\u00a0 actually make me not so special?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got it!\u201d says Monsignor. \u201cThe\u00a0splendid robes are not because you\u2019re a\u00a0splendid person, but because the office of the bishop is splendid. The better bishop you are the more you will forget about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s the problem with these robes that are \u2018creative\u2019. They draw attention to themselves and they draw attention to the people wearing them and the people who made them. Listen hon. These vestments say, \u201cLook at me. I\u2019m radical. I\u2019m\u00a0a woman bishop. I\u2019m something special.\u00a0I am going to change the world.\u201d It is saying, \u201cWomen priests are good. People who don\u2019t like them are bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is why these vestments are so bad. Because they are preaching to me. Good vestments preach\u00a0by being humble. The only thing you should notice is that they are made from the finest materials with the finest workmanship. It\u2019s simple hon. Vestments should not send a message.<\/p>\n
You want to send a message? Send a telegram.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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