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For those who are disgusted with the vestments in their Roman parishes, there's hope: http://www.wattsandco.com/My parish has some high mass sets made by Watts and they are magnificent. My advice: save, fund-raise, and donate! John K.
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Hey house are actually pretty nice!
I usually poke fun at my RC friends about their Priest Vestments, but these are good.
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oops double post
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Hey house are actually pretty nice!
I usually poke fun at my RC friends about their Priest Vestments, but these are good. Sub-Deacon Borislav-- They are more than nice--having seen them and touched them. It's unfortunate that they have to be made in England and are purchased and used mainly by Anglicans.
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Hmm, you should also try www.luzarvestments.co.uk [ luzarvestments.co.uk] and www.susanmaria.com [ susanmaria.com] They're superb! There's a third site that's absolutely KILLER but I can't remember it for the life of me. It's meant only for clergy, but it's awesome. Alexis
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Oh, I do like this Gothic chasuble featuring Our Lady of Perpetual Help: [ Linked Image] Since this is the name of my home parish, I was thinking about someday getting this set for our priest...but it's awfully expensive. Alexis
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I would not advise anyone to save, purchase, and donate the good vestments without a reliable insurance that the good vestments will then be worn!
Warning to prospective donors: check with the Priest FIRST. If you donate something strongly against his preferences, the likelihood that it will fade away to nothing before he wears it increases drastically. I can tell you that if someone gave me a Phelonion with an icon on the back of it, and a lace nightgown instead of a sticharion, it would be a long, cold winter before I would thus appear in private, let alone in public.
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By the Lace nightgown are you talking about a Podriznik? [ Linked Image] A Phelonion with an icon? [ Linked Image] [ Linked Image] Hey looks good to me!  Father, be sure to send me all the Phelonion's with Icons and Podriznik's that you receive as gifts. I may need them in the future!
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An embroidered Cross is not an icon, nor is a properly made podriznik fashioned of lace. If anyone is silly enough to give me a lace alb you are perfectly welcome to it (provided you pay the shipping costs). But I hope you won't wear it. If you are already wearing lace underwear, please don't tell us; we don't want to know!
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HEY! Whats wrong with lace underwear? J/K  On a more serious note I was referring to the pholonions with the Icon of the Lord and the Icon of the Trinity I posted above.
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Now why would you go around wearing icons on your back?
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Dear Alexis:
Glory to Jesus Christ!
That vestment is beautiful! I have a great love for the Holy Virgin under the title of the Virgin of Perpetual Help. I am sure that any priest that loves Our Lady would be delighted to have such a beautiful vestment, but there are some priests who are not devoted to Our Lady and Our Lady really is the Queen of the Clergy. Unfortunately, some people do not stop to think about that. I would like to personally thank you for posting that beatiful vestment.
Do take care and may the Lord and Our Lady keep you well!
God Bless,
John Doucette
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John,
Thank you! I too have a special affinity for the Theotokos under the patronage of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, mostly because, as I said earlier, it's the name of my home parish and the parish-church that brought me to Catholicism.
Fr. Serge,
Bless!
To be honest, I was thinking of getting something like this for Father regardless of whether he would choose it for himself or not. I guess I assumed that if a parishioner went to so much trouble and money to purchase such a wondrous chasuble reflecting our very parish, he'd feel guilty as sin if he chose never to wear it.
Anyway, no disrespect meant to parish priests, but I view vestments given as gifts as not just the personal property of the priest; they are for the entire parish community to enjoy and to rightly reflect our worship of God in beauty and truth.
What's NOT to like about that chasuble? Father wears pretty nice vestments as it is, but sometimes four or five inches too short - alb and all. And he's orthodox, too. I don't see why he'd have a problem with it.
GOSH, what is the name of that other website that's absolutely fantastic?!
Alexis
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