1. Fits nicely under the saturno/birretta extraliturgically.
2. Goes with the cassock better than a baseball cap.
3. It is consistent with the priestly rank and right.
4. To Promote all things Catholic and Traditional.
5. Ecumenical! So what if the Jews like it? Theirs is actually different, materially and ontologically.
6. Educational for the faithful and for the infidel.
7. Since it is a house item it is very practical to wear in my shirtsleeves (as is my wont) in the rectory, in the living quarters when not receiving visitors. Staff and chance intrusions will never catch me totally unclerical!
8. Here is also one of the great benefits of the saturno, on the rare occasion that I must spontaneously run out of the rectory on the parish grounds to do some non-priestly diligence I am sure to have either the zucchetto or the saturno on or both. It keeps one from having to be excessively scrupulous about the cassock.
9. Even in my pj's I can wear it, in my quarters, and on the rare occasion that I must go out into the rectory living quarters in pajamas after hours!
11. On the even rarer occasions when a priest is visiting family or friends for overnights he can use it as he would in the rectory quarters. It sort of keeps you covered, even in your rare shirtsleeves off-campus occasions. If you never have those occasions, salute!
10. That's how our forebears did it! Thereby avoiding extremes.
11. Always giving clear priestly witness to oneself and to others.
12. Simple, human, elegant, clerical and clearly Catholic and Traditional.
13. Having eight panels it is a sign of the creation and the redemption (the first and eighth day).
14. It thereby makes the priestly habitual wearing of clerical attire more perfect! The soli Deo always has you covered.
15. The priest haters hate it along with all things priestly!
16. Oh, I almost forgot, it also keeps your bald head warm? Minimally, at best. Any ski cap will do that much better. It keeps the head warm...in the Summer too.
My dictionary defines "solideo" thus:
"Un género de gorro o casquete de seda u otra tela, que usan los eclesiasticos para cubrir la corona.
Pileum, vertice capitis a sacerdotibus gestatum."
[A type of cap or skullcap of silk or other cloth which priests use to cover the crown (of the head). Plinthos]
Vicente Salvá, Nuevo diccionario de la lengua castellana, Paris: Garnier, 1890.
13. Having eight panels it is a sign of the creation and the redemption (the first and eighth day).
14. It thereby makes the priestly habitual wearing of clerical attire more perfect! The soli Deo always has you covered.
15. The priest haters hate it along with all things priestly!
16. Oh, I almost forgot, it also keeps your bald head warm? Minimally, at best. Any ski cap will do that much better. It keeps the head warm...in the Summer too.
My dictionary defines "solideo" thus:
"Un género de gorro o casquete de seda u otra tela, que usan los eclesiasticos para cubrir la corona.
Pileum, vertice capitis a sacerdotibus gestatum."
[A type of cap or skullcap of silk or other cloth which priests use to cover the crown (of the head). Plinthos]
Vicente Salvá, Nuevo diccionario de la lengua castellana, Paris: Garnier, 1890.