Does your parish use Birettas?

[gtsecc]

or not?

[gtsecc]

http://oldforum.catholic.org/discussion/messages/41/747538.jpg.

[Father Rick]

I don't do funny hats...

[alban]

Yep.

[gtsecc]

I don't do funny hats...
Heh heh, that picture is some of your Priests.

[pmcleanj]

I don't do funny hats...


LOL :D

I very nearly posted the self-same words! "Funny hats" -- precisely.

In my old-fashioned opinion, when a lady or gentleman goes out of doors, he or she puts on a hat:
If he or she is conservatively dressed, he or she wears a conservative hat as is in good taste.

Similarly, if he or she is fashionably dressed, a fashionable hat.

And if dressed funny, a funny hat -- no, I'll be good; if liturgically dressed, a liturgical hat.

Indoors, a gentleman takes off his hat; a lady wears it unless in her own home or office (a mitre is not a hat; it is a crown).

Hence, I see priests wearing birettas only when they go out and about wearing a cassock. Some very few old-fashioned high-church priests do so as their daily dress; most do it only for the parish picnic, or when preaching to the troops at a church parade, or for some such other vaguely liturgically related outdoor event. Low-church clergymen wear an ordinary street hat to go with their ordinary street clothes. In Alberta that's likely to be jeans and a tractor cap; in more civilized lands a very traditional low-church minister might chose small-clothes and a cocked-hat.

Why are those gentlemen in the picture wearing hats in church? or, perhaps they are sitting on a porch?

[LiberatedChick]

Well I didn't know what a Biretta was until I saw that pic...now I know I can safely say that my church doesn't have them.

[SeenAndUnseen]

I haven't ever seen anyone wear a biretta in person before.

[merechristian]

no!my parish never cared much for robert blake and that crazy bird! in christ,mere

[Fish and Bread]

Outside of the Internet, I've never seen a biretta before. For all I know, you all are making them up. ;)

John

[Albion]

I don't do funny hats...

Well, mitres are certainly funnier than birettas. How about them?

[SeenAndUnseen]

ooops, I take it back. I have seen people wearing these before but I didn't find it memorable enough to recall without someone here reminding me of it.

[benedictine]

My ECUSA paris can't. some ofthe oldermembers of thr ECW might croak. The anglo-catholic parish down the street does, however. They even use the cassok.

[alban]

gtsecc, perhaps we could form a splinter group of STR- 'funny hats anonymous' ;)

[Father Rick]

Well, mitres are certainly funnier than birettas. How about them?Talk to me about mitres AFTER I've been elected as a bishop... until then, the only hats I wear are baseball caps.

[benedictine]

The Right Rev. Father Rick, O. S. T. R.

[Mysterium_Fidei]

My parish does not have birrettas but I've attended a Tridentine Latin Mass and the numerous priests had them. I think I'd be somewhat of a cassock-wearin' birretta-bearin' holy water-dippin' confession-hearin' bell-ringin' incense-swingin' type of priest.