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Modesty around the home
« Reply #1215 on: September 22, 2012, 09:13:56 AM »
No need to find a seamstress Sede and Tele. PW has apparel sewing skills, she mentioned before she is skilled in repurposing clothing.

Modesty around the home
« Reply #1216 on: September 22, 2012, 09:55:52 AM »
Quote from: Sede Catholic
So-called trad schools are deficient if they do not promote Catholic modesty.
How angels are depicted in art is irrelevant to moral guidelines on how human beings should dress.
Angels do not wear shorts, and even if they did they would not be tempting anyone.
There is no temptation in Heaven.

But we are on earth, and these artworks are displayed on earth to be viewed by us human beings.

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On earth, shorts are immodest clothing. They are exposing the legs. They are immodest.  

Then St Michael the Archangel is being depicted as an immodestly dressed man exposing his legs.

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Also, shorts are male clothing. So shorts should not be worn by women.

If they shouldn't be worn by men, they are not male clothing either!

Quote from: Deuteronomy.  20: 5
A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel…

And it does not identify trousers as male apparel. Male and female apparel back then were more similar than they became when men started wearing trousers.

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How angels are depicted in art is irrelevant to moral guidelines on how human beings should dress.
That is obvious.

If exposing legs is an occasion of sin, then it matters not whether the individual depicted is human or a humanoid angel surely.

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Skirts covering the ankles were the norm in Catholic countries before the twentieth century.
So Catholic women’s skirts should cover the ankles today.
Again, that is obvious.

You are demanding more than the Church does.



Modesty around the home
« Reply #1217 on: September 22, 2012, 09:56:52 AM »
Quote from: Traditional Guy 20
Also a woman can be as modest as she wants to but if she believes in the Marxian and Jєωιѕн principle of feminism then the modesty outside of the body is null.


I agree. It would be as how Our Lord anathematized the Scribes and Pharisees: "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness" (S. Matt. cap. xxiii., 27).

However, I have never met a woman who dresses modestly and yet subscribes to Marxist and feminist ideologies. Such a thing would be as rare as the dodo bird.

Ineluctably, just as belief determines behavior, so behavior (particularly when repeated to the point of habit) influences belief.

I have met young women who are of "conservative" Protestant sects who do dress modestly, but they do not espouse feminist notions. Perhaps on account of this they dress modestly. However, since they do not have Our Lady as exemplar and patroness, some of these young women do not always persevere in modesty of dress or comportment, as the pernicious influence of the world and the concupiscence of the flesh compel them to abandon wholesome habits of dress.

This is the most important thing for Catholics (both women and men, boys and girls) to remember: an earnest and generous devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary will inevitably lead to the self-abnegation and mortification of the senses and the will that shall enable one to be modest in both dress and comportment.

True devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary ---> self-abnegation in all things ---> interior and exterior mortification ---> modesty in dress and comportment ---> prayerful perseverance therein : this is how it usually works in most interior souls.

Modesty around the home
« Reply #1218 on: September 22, 2012, 10:02:50 AM »
Pope Pius XII, with the Harlem Globetrotters, and some apparently indecently dressed women, 1952:



Modesty around the home
« Reply #1219 on: September 22, 2012, 10:04:15 AM »
Leave it to Clare to find a picture of the Pope with the Harlem globetrotters.

You must have watched a lot of Scooby Doo as a child.