It seems to me that one rarely sees a priest who happens to be a woman happen to wear a maniple.
Actually, one doesn’t see many people wear the maniple these days, for reasons that I’ve never quite understood.
Why, when one does see such a thing, does it seem invariably to be sported on the left forearm of a priest who happens to be a man?
Your thoughts please.
I think that the saturno has never been prescribed for the liturgy, myself. Whereas the zuchetto and mitre have.
I think that the saturno is merely a hat – albeit a very splendid one.
The maniple is essential for forming IHS with stole and cincture when laying out vestments before mass. Happy memories of this at All Saints, St Andrews some 45 years back. And what about the apparelled amice? Any Dearmer fans still around?
I think Simon Fisher has already given almost the exact answer I’d have given. Trendy episcopalians at the Catholic end of the spectrum dropped the maniple when the C of R dropped it; supporters of the ‘Branch theory’ still living in the 19th century hung on to it because they felt a liturgical change made in another Branch had no bearing on them. The latter group didn’t include any women.
Remember:
1) No Maniple, No Mass.
2) Every time a priest fails to wear a maniple at Mass, God kills a kitten.
> I look like a glam dinner lady or woman in a tabard.
Ruthie, I’m getting old. Please leave me with my fantasies . . .
To me, a maniple symbolises humility and service. I like it.
BTW, nearly every priest in the SEC is now a bishop, judging by how they don’t cross their stoles under the chasuble.
I most assuredly am not a bishop (unless I am ungirdled). But I am a Donald Nicholson protege!