Author Topic: Is tradition in action totally nuts? (Read 8790 times)

radtrad · « **Reply #5 on:** August 07, 2009, 07:32:56 PM »

Here is a link to the article with the corresponding pictures. Look at some of the photos. They are NOT modest, plain and simple.

I love this web forum. TIA is "totally nuts" because it advocates for modesty in dress? Haha!

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I am by no means a modernist but I seriously doubt that our Catholic ancestors in the middle ages dressed that uncomfortably on such an onerous trek. Please correct me if Im wrong.

Well, how do we know what they wore in the middle ages? Besides, the author of the article writes:

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I am not pretending that we should dress like Catholics did 100 years ago - or 1,000 years ago. But at all times the Catholic way of dressing should show dignity.

Could it be that we are all modernists to an extent as we have grown up in a culture that is saturated with modernism? Is it possible that we are so used to being overly comfortable that it is unimaginable to dress as the author suggests? Note that I wrote "we" as I accuse myself of this too.

Robert

Vladimir · « **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2009, 07:35:04 PM »

I believe that this issue is out of hand.

TIA is being to critical. Do you criticise everyone who is not in suit and tie at Holy Mass?

clare · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2009, 04:32:05 AM »

Quote from: radtrad

TIA is "totally nuts" because it advocates for modesty in dress? Haha!

No, it's nuts because it advocates remaining completely aloof and inaccessible, and seems not to aprreciate the possibility that people might be at different stages on their journeys in tradition. And anyone who isn't at their stage is simply not good enough.

Instead of being pleased that "ordinary" people should be attracted to tradition, it laments the fact that a lot of traditionalists are merely "ordinary".

Dawn · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2009, 07:42:36 AM »

I have seen pictures of my Italian relatives ,all Catholic ,all dressed impeccably at all times. The men with suit coats and ties and hats even in the summer. The women always wore dress, full frontal apron and stockings. These men would wear what they called "summer suite" to go fishing.
We are too accustomed to comfort, I say we as I detest hot weather like we will have today. Still, I will wear an ankle length skirt and elbow length shirt to go shopping today. My mother always told us that there was never an excuse to look poor and shabby.

clare · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2009, 09:26:09 AM »

From Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis De Sales:

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In his early days, Saint Bernard was very severe and harsh towards those whom he directed, telling them, to begin with, that they must put aside the body, and come to him with their minds only. In confession, he treated all faults, however small, with extreme severity, and his poor apprentices in the study of perfection were so urged onwards, that by dint of pressing he kept them back, for they lost heart and breath when they found themselves thus driven up so steep and high an ascent. Therein, my daughter, you can see that, although it was his ardent zeal for the most perfect purity which led that great Saint so to act, and although such zeal is a great virtue, still it was a virtue which required checking. And so God Himself checked it in a vision, by which He filled S. Bernard with so gentle, tender, and loving a spirit, that he was altogether changed, blaming himself heavily for having been so strict and so severe, and becoming so kindly and indulgent, that he made himself all things to all men in order to win all.