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Expert: Romy Brown Date: 1/23/2008 Subject: Mormons!
Question Romy Brown,
Thank you so much! That helped alot!
I was researching the Holy Days and it said that Mormons celebrate on July 24
for Pioneer Day so i was wondering if that was true! And what Mormons did
on that day!
I was also looking up if Mormons wore a special kind of clothes! And i came
across something that said that Mormons wear a special kind of underwear
and that it is suppost to be worn at all times except when being wash. So i
was also wondering if that was true? Ill give you the website i found it on. http://www.mormon-underwear.com
Thanks again!
*Clare*
Answer Yes Pioneer day we do celebrate on July 24th. That day is a Celebration of the anniversary of the arrival of the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. For Mormons, this commemoration has come to symbolize the establishment of a divinely ordained "Promised Land" in the American West. Since 1849, Pioneer Day has given us an excellent opportunity to express their identity as a covenant people. In the context of devotionals, parades, dances, sporting events, banquets, and a host of other activities, Mormons review the manifestation of God's hand in the course of their history, the creation and sustaining of their mode of life, and the religious dimension of their continuing associations. Although the focus of Pioneer Day is Salt Lake City and the Mormon West, we throughout the Church memorialize their religious heritage on July 24 with celebrations appropriate to their particular settings and circumstances.
The white undergarment is worn by those members who have received the ordinance of the temple Endowment. All adults who enter the temple are required to wear it. In Mormon temples, men and women who receive priesthood ordinances wear this undergarment and other priestly robes. The garment is worn at all times, but the robes are worn only in the temple. Having made covenants of righteousness, the members wear the garment under their regular clothing for the rest of their lives, day and night, partially to remind them of the sacred covenants they have made with God.
The white garment symbolizes purity and helps assure modesty, respect for the attributes of God, and, to the degree it is honored, a token of what Paul regarded as taking upon one the whole armor of God (Eph. 6:13; and in our Doctrine and Covenants 27:15). It is an outward expression of an inward covenant, and symbolizes Christlike attributes in one's mission in life. Garments bear several simple marks of orientation toward the gospel principles of obedience, truth, life, and discipleship in Christ.
An agency of the Church manufactures these garments in contemporary, comfortable, and lightweight fabrics. They are available for purchase through Church distribution centers.
In the Scripture, as well as legends from many lands and cultures, points toward the significance of secret clothing. A biblical tradition teaches that Adam and Eve, prior to their expulsion from Eden, wore sacred clothing. "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them" (Gen. 3:21). These were given in a context of repentance and forgiveness, and of offering sacrifice and making covenants.
In antiquity, priestly vestments were part of widespread tradition. The Targums (Aramaic paraphrases of the Old Testament) teach that these garments were "precious garments" or "glorious garments" or "garments of honor." Rabbi Eleazer called them "coats of glory." A rabbinic source asks: "And what were those garments?" The answer is, "The vestments of the High Priesthood, with which the Almighty clothed them because Adam was the world's first-born". In Moses' time those who officiated in the Tabernacle wore a certain kind of garment: "And [Moses] put upon [Aaron] the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith" (Lev. 8:7; see Testament of Levi 8). As Latter-day Saints we similarly wear temple garments in connection with their priesthood functions.
The clergy and many of the committed in almost all major faiths wear special clothing. For us among whom there is no professional ministry, men and women from all walks of life share in the callings, responsibilities, and blessings of the priesthood. Their sacred clothing, representing covenants with God, is worn under rather than outside their street clothes.
In a Messianic passage Isaiah declared: "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness" (Isa. 61:10). In the current dispensation, the principle has been reaffirmed in prophetic idiom: "Zion must increase in beauty,…and put on her beautiful garments" (D&C 82:14). Latter-day Saints believe that all such clothing is symbolic of the submission, sanctification, and spotless purity of those who desire to serve God and Christ and ultimately regain their eternal presence (D&C 61:34; 135:5).
