Both our Lord and His bondslave Paul made clear that true prayer is not dreamy reverie. “All vital praying makes a drain on a man’s vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice,” wrote J.H. Jowett. Jesus performed miracles without a sign of outward strain, but “He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears” (Hebrews 5:7).
Oswald Sanders

Tonsure

Tonsure

TONSURE

BASIC R.C. BELIEF A sacred ceremony whereby one is raised to clerical state and rendered capable of receiving Holy Orders. It is not an order, but a sacramental.

This customarily included shaving at least a portion of the head (as St. Anthony). As they stood before the bishop, he recited a prayer that “these servants of God who hasted hither to lay aside the hairs of their head for love of Him” might receive the Holy Ghost (EXTERNALS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, Msgr. O’Sullivan, p. 71).

POST VATICAN II The custom of shaving heads was never common in the U.S. Now, by order of Vatican II, the sacramental of tonsure no longer exists.

Traditional Roman Catholics (followers of ex-communicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre) still observe Tonsure in the ordination of priests.