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Tag: Vestments

Fashion and Vestments

August 10, 2017 Tim Gabrielli Art and Architecture Uncategorized

When we lean too far toward the unavoidable reality of liturgical material expressivism—that vestments, drapes, etc. represent someone’s preferences—we can lose the larger theological reality that 1) they shape us and 2) they direct us outside of ourselves.

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The Ugliest Vestments Ever Worn

October 14, 2013 Anthony Ruff, OSB Art and Architecture

I count 5 Catholics in the lot. And 11 Episcopalians/Anglicans.

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How Pope Francis Made Liturgy Boring Again (And Why That’s a Good Thing)

May 30, 2013 Fritz Bauerschmidt Pope Francis Reform of the Reform

After the initial whiplash effect of the change in liturgical style from Benedict to Francis, what is interesting about Francis’s liturgical choices is how thoroughly uninteresting they are.

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“Not so much about trappings and fine fabrics”: Pope Francis at Chrism Mass

March 28, 2013 Anthony Ruff, OSB Art and Architecture Liturgical Spirituality Ordained Ministry Pope Francis

“The beauty of all these liturgical things is not so much about trappings and fine fabrics than about the glory of our God resplendent in his people…” – Pope Francis

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Reading the Language of Papal Clothing

March 20, 2013 Jonathan Day Art and Architecture Liturgical Spirituality Pope Benedict XVI Pope Francis

A model drawn from social anthropology can shed light on the differences in papal vesture.

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Francis at inaugural Mass: Pope must be servant, ‘inspired by lowly’

March 19, 2013 Editor Pope Francis

“It will be interesting to see, in this age of instant communication, whether those bishops who have begun preaching with miter and crosier will dial it all back in imitation of Pope Francis,” someone or the other said.

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What’s the message on the runway for Baroque fashions?

January 26, 2013 Editor Church Reform

Time passes, and today ecclesiastical clothes are less intelligible and point less clearly to something beyond their colors and gilt.

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What Color is Your Lent?

March 18, 2012 Cody C. Unterseher Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Liturgical year

The idea was, of course, Scriptural: sackcloth and ashes, the vesture of penance. The effect was a fading out of the ornate, a blending in with the surrounding stone or plasterwork. The Lenten White did not contrast as would violet; rather it simplified, made plain and austere, vesting the season in the color (or lack thereof) of its virtue.

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Italian bishop turns heads with Giorgio Armani vestments

May 3, 2011 Editor Art and Architecture

The devil may wear Prada, but a Sicilian bishop has set out to show Satan does not have a stranglehold on designer clothing by ordering new vestments from Giorgio Armani. ‘This is about wearing something beautiful to give glory to God,’ says Bishop Domenico Mogavero.

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Liturgical Observation on Lace

February 3, 2010 Cody C. Unterseher Liturgy of the Hours Reform of the Reform

I have an allergy to the use of lace in albs and surplices. I have an even bigger allergy to the claim that the use of lace in vestments is somehow expressive of a “hermeneutic of continuity”.

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