Someone asked this in another thread, but it was never answered and I'm curious about the same thing. After all, we are part of the Covenants now that Christ came and welcomed us Gentiles into Zion. I myself am Catholic and would gladly wear a kippah to remind me to be humble. Why don't we wear them?!
2007-04-22 07:39:58 · 3 answers · asked by Tom from the Top 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Father, why don't all Catholic males wear something like a Zucchetto though? (Sorry if this is a dumb question, but i'm really curious.)
Peace be with you.
2007-04-22 07:57:15 · update #1
Kippah and Zucchetto are two different words (Hebrew and Italian) for a skullcap. (Have you ever seen the thing Jewish men wear on their head? That's it.)
2007-04-22 08:27:07 · update #2
probably for the same reason that Catholics do not follow other ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.
Matthew 19:17-78 states:
Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?"
He answered him, "Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."
For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.
Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.
Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.
However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.
Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.
With love in Christ.
2007-04-25 07:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Catholic priest and I wear a Zucchetto when wearing a cassock which is similar.
In Christ
2007-04-22 14:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither kippah or zucchetto(?) are currently in the dictionary near my computer; what are they?
2007-04-22 15:14:49 · answer #3 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋