Passiontide Veils - Your Photos

Thanks to everyone who sent in photographs of their churches with veils for Passiontide. We are looking forward to seeing your pictures of Palm Sunday and the rest of Holy Week.Church of the Holy Ghost - Tiverton, R.I. (Fr. Jay Finelli, a.k.a. iPadre)Holy Trinity - Kuldgia, LatviaHermitage Chapel of Our Lady of the Garden Enclosed - Warfhuizen, Groningen province, NetherlandsThe person who submitted this photograph also tells us that the statue of the Virgin Mary in this shrine is never covered because it is a “Genadebeeld”, a statue (or picture) that is the focus of a pilgrimage. Note, however, that she is covered in black; a similar custom is common in Italy. The hermitage is actually inhabited by a hermit, whom the members of a confraternity help to veil the shrine. The second photograph shows what the chapel looks like without the veils.Old St Mary’s  - Cincinnati, OhioChapelle du Sacré-Coeur de Lindthout, Brussels, BelgiumOratory of Ss. Gregory and Augustine - St. Louis, MissouriAbbey of St Gregory the Great (Downside Abbey) - Downside, Somerset EnglandDownside Abbey has continuously maintained the custom of veling the statues and pictures in Passiontide, even in the refectory, as seen below in the 2nd picture. (The chapel of St Sebastian by Comper is currently in this state because of restoration work being done on the roof.) In religious houses of all kinds, pictures and statues were traditionally veiled throughout in all the buildings, not just in the church itself.St. Catherine Labouré - Middletown NJSt Anthony of Padua - Cody, WyomingSt. Mary of Perpetual Help - Chicago, IllinoisSt Mary’s - Remson, IowaSt Theresa - Corpus Christi, TexasChurch of Our Savior - New York CityOur Lady, Star of the Sea - Bremerton, WashingtonSt Joseph’s, Longside - Manchester, England