Mantilla

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether you are simply curious to find out the reasons behind the tradition of women covering their heads in church or are already convinced it is a good and beneficial practice whether you are perplexed to see it making a comeback everywhere or are already a long-time dedicated veiler yourself Anna Elissa's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mantilla: The Veil of the Bride of Christ </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the most thorough insightful and serene guide to veiling ever written-one that will equip you with answers to your own questions as well as the never-lacking questions of friends relatives and strangers. Resting her account on Scripture and Tradition as interpreted by the Church Fathers St. Thomas Aquinas and papal liturgical and canon law texts the author offers arguments of fittingness on behalf of veiling responds to common objections against it offers practical advice for choosing wearing and even designing mantillas and shows how the veil contributes to a Eucharistic way of life that treats femininity as a gift a treasure and a mystery. To illustrate and verify her points Anna Elissa presents a substantial collection of testimonials from women of all ages about their experience adopting and wearing the veil-and from men too including clergy about why they value the practice and its return. Appropriately for a book about the language of signs and beauty </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mantilla</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'s chapters are graced with nine full-color plates of exquisite artworks featuring women in veils.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I invite you to read this book because it will be for many as it was for me a beautiful surprise. Here the author a young woman who studies psychiatry but is well prepared also in the theological field shares with us her experience; she gives us the reasons</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>for her choice to wear a mantilla. We find in this book historical theological liturgical and practical reasons for rediscovering this practice which was once very common in the Catholic Church everywhere. -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Most Reverend Antonio Guido Filipazzi</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Titular Archbishop of Sutri and Apostolic Nuncio</em></p>