Christian (Catholic) Ladies: Do You Veil?

[Murphy]

For 2,000 years, Catholic women have veiled themselves before entering a church or any time they are in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament (e.g., during sick calls). It was written into the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 1262, that women must cover their heads -- "especially when they approach the holy table" ("mulieres autem, capite cooperto et modeste vestitae, maxime cum ad mensam Dominicam accedunt") -- but during the Second Vatican Council, Bugnini (the same Freemason who designed the Novus Ordo Mass) was asked by journalists if women would still have to cover their heads. His reply, perhaps innocently enough, was that the issue was not being discussed. The journalists (as journalists are wont to do with Church teaching) took his answer as a "no," and printed their misinformation in newspapers all over the world. 1 Since then, many, if not most, Catholic women have lost the tradition.

SOURCE (http://www.fisheaters.com/theveil.html)

So how about you ladies, do you veil?

Regards,
Eóin.

[Sally]

Sure, if there were a TLM available around here, I'd happily veil. Bring on the mantillas! :D However, for Novus Ordo masses I won't veil. It would simply call too much attention to me, and I already stick out enough in a parish that is predominantly Asian and African. ;)

[W. R.]

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. (1 Corinthians 11:4-8)

My grandmothers have covered their heads nearly all the time since they got married. Not only in church. For a married woman it was traditional and obligatory. It was believed also that the headscarf protected women from devilry.

Now these traditions have gone, but the Orthodox Church still demands from women to cover their heads while being in church. But if I'm not mistaken an uncovered head is taken as a lack of respect not for God but for one's husband.

I have not known that similar rules existed in the Catholic Church as well.

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[Tabiti]

Bulgarian Orthodox church does not demand veiling.
Peasant women often veil to keep themselves from the sun, however their hair is shown, unlike doing that with religious purpose.

[Anthropos]

Where I go, an Orthodox cloister, about half of the women veil. It's mostly the Slavs that veil, while Greeks and Swedes usually don't. In the Catholic church in town, I haven't seen anyone veiling.