Putting On Your Sunday Best

[add]

Not only nice clothes, also clean shaven and groomed.
I try to bring a smile too, but that is not always possible.
However, I do usually leave with a good feeling and a smile, to boot

Edited August 25, 2012 by add

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

Is the way we dress to holy mass scriptural or a part of sacred tradition.? Do we weigh ourselves up with so many little things that than we can't carry the heavy things. I know there is the parable from jesus about a rich man throwing a feast/party and none of his invited guests showing up and than sending his servants to go and invite anyone off the street. And than when the party starts there is one man whom did not dress for the occasion. I guess if you take this literally it is ok and hopefully in consequential. But i think it is more an attitude of gratitude that this man was missing, coz like if you invite street people to your party there all poor and there not going to come in a suit. Thats just my opinion. I say wear whatever, and if you where a suit it isn't bad either. Though i wouldn't wear short shorts or a tank top(singlet) etc, although i wore a singlet once and i think it was stupid.

[Norseman82]

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[iheartjp2]

I'm probably going to deviate from the majority of the responses by saying this: I don't give much attention to the clothes that I or anyone else has on for mass. I wear what I normally wear, not out of some selfish disrespect for the occasion, but because the condition of my heart and the disposition of my soul are more pertinent to the occasion and the One who requests my attendance than how I'm dressed.

This is not to say that dressing nicely is not a way to honor God. It certainly may be and if it be on your heart to honor Him this way, he will see and be glad you did it.

The problem I have with the admonition that one SHOULD dress nicely is that it then becomes an identifying characteristic for OTHERS to determine where one's priorities lie when that should really be left up to God. Besides, if I DID start dressing nicely simply because I happened upon this thread, will it have been because I simply WANT to serve God through my dress at mass, or will it have been because I was duped into believing that how I dress somehow DOES matter to God and that I've been somehow serving him poorly simply because I didn't make my outer appearance more palatable to the tastes of people on the internet that I don't know? With the will to please God in one balance and the potential will to feel more culturally Catholic in the other, it's not very easy to know. I like to stick with my primary intention and that is to please God by being at mass and participating period. If I'm dressed modestly and in a way that doesn't distract others from full participation, I'm okay, and everyone else is okay.

That being said, ladies, I don't know how you feel about mass appropriate footwear, but in my experience, wearing high heels can be the EPITOME of distracting. Sometimes when a mother is taking an unruly child outside for a few minutes, her heels literally sound like a horse clip-clopping across the floor. ><

[The OrthoFox]

the orthofox considers it as a laudable idea to dress up spiffy and well on sundays to show his respect to god and the holy church~

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

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the orthofox considers it as a laudable idea to dress up spiffy and well on sundays to show his respect to god and the holy church~
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Welcome orthofox.