Priest wears a hood instead of a biretta?
  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    At the colloquium, there was a Mass celebrated by a priest wearing a hood instead of his biretta. Does anybody know what the meaning of this is? Is the priest a concescrated member of a religious order, or an abbot, or something? I've just never seen that before.
  • CharlesW
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    Certain eastern monastics wear them, but I can't imagine one would have been there.
  • BenBen
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    Getting the head covered and proper times is the important part, not nessicarily what covers it (though that's not to say he can use a baseball cap... Keep reading...) For diocesan priests and many religious, the head covering is a biretta, the standard headcovering of the roman rite, but if he has a hood as part of his habit, he uses that instead.
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  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    So if the priest is ALSO a member of a religious order wearing a habit that has a hood, the hood replaces the biretta.
  • tomjaw
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    We have a Benedictine with us at the moment, and he uses his cowl / hood instead of a biretta. We have had another Benedictine with us and he also used the cowl / hood.

    Dominicans also have a hood/cowl.

    But Norbertines / Augustinian Canons use a white biretta.
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  • BenBen
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    Clerget,

    Exactly. The hood replaces the biretta.
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    Father is Capuchin Franciscan, and one of the smartest friars I've been privileged to meet, confess to, and listen to an ideal homily. And he gave me his satchel!
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  • JahazaJahaza
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    For diocesan priests and many religious, the head covering is a biretta, the standard headcovering of the roman rite, but if he has a hood as part of his habit, he uses that instead.

    As tomjaw points out, not all religious use the hood as a head covering. The hood of the Norbertine habit, for instance, is vestigial and too small to use as an actual hood.

    The Carthusian hood is attached to the scapular and since the scapular is only given to the professed and not to the novices, they don't have a hood and wear a biretta instead.

    The Dominicans also have a biretta used in academic contexts by Masters of Theology, but it is not used liturgically.
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  • kenstb
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    I'm so happy to read your comment, Melo. We need more great clergy who truly get it.
  • G
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    Was that a brilliant homily, or was that a brilluant homily?
    A great man...

    (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    Yes, period.
    Back finally in CA at 1:20am PST.
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