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| (Left to right) Sister Odell Hayes and my Grandmother, Emma Johnson Thornton Newport News, Virginia, Photo taken during 1950s |
Today, I'm making a commitment to begin blogging again. One of the series I began in 2008 was called "Sacred Sunday" which highlights religious and church history and traditions.
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This is one of
my favorite photos of my maternal grandmother, Emma Johnson Thornton
(1922-2011) because it represents Easter fashions of the past when women wore
hats and gloves to church. The lady on the left was Sister Odell Hayes
(1926-1994) who was a member of my family's church, The photo was taken
sometime during the 1950s in front of our family's church, Gospel Light United
Holy Church, Inc., located in Newport News, Virginia, when my mother was a
child.
The women of
Gospel Light not only wore hats on Easter, but on every Sunday because they
believed the scriptures in the Bible written by the Apostle Paul in 1
Corinthians 11: 4-5, which states: "Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered
dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven."
I’m not sure where the tradition of wearing white gloves originated.
