Late-Roman Empire attire came to the streets of Piqua today.
Their pastor strode the streets of downtown, attired as a cleric of Rome, circa 5-6th century. Cassock, alb, cincture, stolam et casulam; purple for Lent, of course.
Now, while I probably am crazy, this is not further evidence--it was one of those things.
We had a rite at the 10:30 am Mass, at St. Boniface, for those entering the Church at Easter, and Mass ran a little long. I had to be at noon Mass at St. Mary; I departed St. B at around 11:53 am.
So, I left my Mass attire on. Which meant, after Mass at St. Mary, I had to return it all to St. Boniface.
And, I had to make a stop downtown along the way.
Now what's all that gas about our clergy not being traditional enough? Top that!
10 comments:
what no pictures????
I'd have loved to be a mouse in the corner for that!
Thanks, with everything going on or not going on at my parish, I needed the humour.
Can you please post some pictures, Fr. Martin?
If you have any at all from anywhere, that is. I'm curious to know what the traditional clothing was.
Kevin:
I was simply wearing my Mass vestments; my point was, Mass vestments are a stylized form of what men wore in public in the late-Roman-empire period (or so I am told).
No pictures because I was simply going from one parish to the other, and had to get out of my car briefly, on an errand. I don't ordinarily have someone follow me around taking pictures.
Aw, no priestly paparazzi? ;-)
You actually did an errand wearing Mass vestments? Please say it isn't true!
Stephen
Stephen:
I had to drop something off, and it needed to be dropped off right away; so I did it on the way from one church to the other, rather than keep it till after I'd driven to the other church, unvested, and did a few other things there needing to get done. What's the big deal?
Yeah, we want pics!!!
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