Birettas ?

[gtsecc]

Birettas (http://images.google.com/images?q=Biretta&num=100&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wi)

[gtsecc]

100% so far!

[PaladinValer]

My Geneseo parish priest sometimes wears it, but not often; usually just on important holy days or when the bishop visited.

[RobNJ]

Thank you for FINALLY spelling it correctly, so I could google it!!:P

Nah, goofy hats should should only be inflicted on Bishops

^_^

[Father Rick]

Sorry guys, I don't do pom-poms on my head!

[RobNJ]

Sorry guys, I don't do pom-poms on my head!

And here I was, about to ask if had a pic in one !!

[TomUK]

I'm a huge fan of pomp etc. but for some reason birettas just strike me as ridiculous.

[Brian Augustyn]

Very silly.

I haven't seen a biretta on a priestly head since the early sixties, when I was a wee Roman Catholic lad in Chicago. Monsignor Hishen, pastor of St. Gall's church (where I started out), used to take himself out on a pleasant afternoon and smugly walk the borders of his kingdom and bless his humble people with his presence ("Ooo, the Father's comin', the father's comin'!").

He would always wear his long cassock with scarlet piping and buttons and that cape-like shoulder flap. He would also wear his four-cornered cake-box hat (as we called it). He would listen to the serfs' requests and concerns, he would grant the occasional boon, and chastise those who'd fallen behind in their pledges. He would also accept tributes of produce, cigartettes and fancily-wrapped bottles from local merchants (the gifts would wind up piled on the poor young curate who followed a discrete few feet behind the master for exactly this reason). All while drifting down 55th Street like a parade float, giving his little side-to-side hand wave.

I was seven the first time I saw this show. Even then I knew that something was way out of whack--the servant was glorying in being served. That was when I started becoming an Episcopalian, I think.

Old fashioned (and ROMAN CATHOLIC!) trapppings such as birettas and the like leave me with a bad taste in my mouth thanks to my past associations. I'd hope never to see them on an Episcopal priest--which is one reason why I am not an Anglo-Catholic.

Our Rector has been seen wearing a Red Sox cap, however--which is at least as steeped in sacred tradition as a biretta, if you ask me. ;)

Brian

[RobNJ]

Our Rector has been seen wearing a Red Sox cap, however--which is at least as steeped in sacred tradition as a biretta, if you ask me. ;)

Brian


But MUCH LESS REPUTABLE!!!!!!:P


GO YANKEES!!!!:clap:

[gtsecc]

Our priest only wears it for special services, such as The Feast of the Annuciation, which we did with extra pomp, and the music Shubert had written for a Mass.

[SirTimothy]

Whee. My home church in the UK never uses robes, let alone a biretta... our priest /might/ wear a dog-collar when he's preaching, and probably will if it's communion and he's officiating, but never robes unless requested to for a wedding/funeral. :). Out here, at St. Helena's, The priest and reader wear robes, but never a biretta. ;)

Timothy

[Fish and Bread]

But MUCH LESS REPUTABLE!!!!!!:P


GO YANKEES!!!!:clap:

I'm sure you both meant to say "GO ORIOLES!!!!", right? ;-)

John

[Inge87]

Perhaps because I attend an Anglo-Catholic parish, my priest always seems to wear one. I like traditions, so I am for them.

[romaneagle13]

our priest sometimes wears one. He did last sunday.