How would you best describe the altar furnishings and sacred vessels used at your parish for Sunday Masses?

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Tulitas said:
That’s a totally different thing. Sacred objects should be put to use, not kept in a private collection. The ordained rescuing items? Bravo! Well done.
But the fact that a priest’s chalice is sold to just anyone? That’s not really “kosher”.
That’s the point of my responses. I feel Ike I have said my piece. Have a blessed Advent.
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I don’t understand why it would be problem for a lay person to own or purchase a chalice. Perhaps it is a gift for a priest. Perhaps it is part of a collection, museum or private. Maybe it is sentimental. As long as it is treated with respect, why is it a problem?
 
Chalices are not collectibles, They are sacred vessels. Donate it to a priest? Absolutely. They are meant for the Sacrifice of the Mas, not as an artifact except in extreme cases of antiquity, as in the case of the chalice found in an Irish field and dated back several centuries and is now in the national museum. Totally different. That’s not what people are talking about here.
Previously owned chalices held the blood of Christ. We don’t even take the blood of Christ to the homebound. Some things have their proper place in churches.
God bless you.
 
Of course, any chalices for sale may be from the Episcopal/C of E churches, not used for the Precious Blood at a Catholic Mass at all,

Catholics aren’t the only ones to use chalices.
 
our neo German Gothic church was ‘modernized’ in the 70s. It was horrible. Statues disappeared, beautiful plaster stations of the cross were replaced by ‘mobiles’. It was truly shocking. 8 years ago a new priest started a capital campaign to refurbish the church. It is beautiful now. Not as gorgeous as it was 150 years ago. But the statues are back and the decorations are all theological. We even have a book in the back of the church describing what all the decorations mean. I was on the committee. I still can’t believe how beautiful our little church is now.

a well done modern church can be just as beautiful. It helps to have a liturgical architect who has a good sense of design on the team too.
 
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