Q: I am using your book “Ars Celebrandi” with a group of permanent deacons and noticed on page 35 that you make a reference to wearing the stole outside the chasuble.
You may or not be aware of the Nihil Obstat of John Paul II with regard to that practice. https://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/individual-textiles-and-textile-types/religious-vestments-and-other-textiles/pope-john-paul-ii-and-the-stole .
Our Cathedral has a quite a number of Stadelmaier vestments with outside stoles as do some parishes. I have a collection myself.
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A: In truth, GIRM 338 changes nothing from the previous edition of the missal on this point, where the corresponding number is 299.
I’ve never seen an actual nihil obstat from 1985 to verify this article. Perhaps one of the readers of the blog can enlighten us.