Dear Father, It was lovely seeing you at the recent retreat after such a long time. I hope you do not mind me writing to you so soon after, but it was my first retreat and I have so many questions that have arisen since. I will however limit myself to one of them here. Father, I’m sorry if this question might be silly, but it’s about wearing a veil in church. As you may remember, where I grew up, most females wore a veil and it is something my sisters and mother have always done. However, when at university, in the church I attend with a lot of young people, many of the girls often speak about “discerning to veil”. There are some girls who think that wearing a veil is a sign of pride, and others who feel it comes from an old-fashioned notion having to do with a patriarchal society that oppresses females, and pretty much all of them think it is something that should be discerned. Their attitudes towards girls wearing dresses to church is similar, and some say it does not matter what one wears to church at all, as it is how we are on the inside that counts. It confuses me to the point where I think perhaps I should stop wearing a veil if others do not? However, this last week at the retreat, spending a lot of time with the Blessed Sacrament made me realise that I should wear a veil no matter which church I attend, for every church is the house of God, and surely it is for Him that we wear a veil and no other reason? But then, that of course made me First Correspondence The Veil 11 February 2023 Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Come before Him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 1 Chronicles 16:29 8
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