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

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Never seen such items in an estate sale.
Most priests leave their “estate” to the Church.
 
Irishmom2 said:
How is it that all of these chalices were available for you to purchase?
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“All”? Please don’t add to what I have written.
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They are left with the church or donated to the Chancery for other priests to use.
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Not in all cases, no. Not even close. You are wrong. Surf over to eBay and see what seller “Liturgy” buys going from rectory to rectory and then resells on eBay. I’m sure she’s bought/sold well over a thousand chalices by now. She even buys/sells first class relics.

So much for priests leaving their “estates” to the Church.
 
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If I may ask, how much are you getting these chalices for? The cheapest ones (that arent glorified common cups) that I can find are over 2k…
 
Buying such items on ebay is really frowned upon. In past threads on CAF people and priest have warned people not to purchase such, because it keeps that “trade” alive.
Which is why people really frown upon buying things like relics and other church appointments on ebay and other auction houses.
You never know how these things were obtained. Stolen maybe. We had a lovely ciborium stolen from our sacristy. I had to call the police and make a report.
 
Tulitas said:
Buying such items on ebay is really frowned upon. In past threads on CAF people and priest have warned people not to purchase such, because it keeps that “trade” alive.
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By whom? I certainly wouldn’t buy anything from “Liturgy” (although I did in the past before I figured out what she was doing.)
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Which is why people really frown upon buying things like relics and other church appointments on ebay and other auction houses.
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If the Church had any influence, any pull, those relics would NEVER show up on eBay! It’s sad just how effete the USCCB is when it comes to things like this.

A “church appointment” is not a relic. Her dealing in relics is one reason why I will never buy from her again.
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You never know how these things were obtained. Stolen maybe. We had a lovely ciborium stolen from our sacristy. I had to call the police and make a report.
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Nope. Not where I purchase from. As I said, the chalice I bought came from the late niece of a late priest.
 
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the church really doesn’t have any control over what private persons are selling on eBay. as long as the time acquired legally, it really isn’t any other entity’s business what is sold there.
 
Maybe not, but for years people on CAF (including other priests) have said it was unwise to purchase such because it creates that market. knowing how those items were acquired.
 
Tulitas said:
Buying such items on ebay is really frowned upon. In past threads on CAF people and priest have warned people not to purchase such, because it keeps that “trade” alive.

Which is why people really frown upon buying things like relics and other church appointments on ebay and other auction houses.

You never know how these things were obtained. Stolen maybe. We had a lovely ciborium stolen from our sacristy. I had to call the police and make a report.
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I just Googled this. I found the exact opposite on an old CAF thread.
 
Depends on the church.

The main church in the parish has a pretty good amount of money in it. One of the other ones is in a community where theft can be an issue. The vestments for the priests in the main church are more ornate than the ones for the seat of the diocese.

Main church is frugal about some things though: just now changing out the carpet in 2018 that has been there since sometime in the 1970’s. That bathrooms kind of make the ones in rest areas seem luxurious.
 
Our church is only a couple of years old. Until this past summer the parish was staffed and led by the Jesuits - and they left their mark by designing a simple church. There is a lot of light which is accentuated by light colored paints on the walls. The furnishings (altar, ambo, cantor stand, credence tables, baptismal font) are all simple and naturally colored oak constructed by parishioners. Our new priests are diocesan and have added nicer sacred vessels.
 
Tulitas said:
Buying such items on ebay is really frowned upon. In past threads on CAF people and priest have warned people not to purchase such, because it keeps that “trade” alive.
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Of course it was long before ebay, but Fr. Suitbert Mollinger was a Pittsburgh priest in the late 19th Century who went all over Europe buying up relics and brought them back here to be housed in a chapel he built on Harpster St. When I was shopping for my house 10 years ago, I looked at a house just a few doors away.

And now, Pittsburgh has the largest collection of relics outside of Rome.
 
eBay knows about it. This matter really shows just how effete the USCCB is in the USA today following the pedophilia/teen rape scandal.

Back in the day the Bishop of San Jose, CA (eBay’s “home diocese”) would only have to pick up the telephone. No more…
 
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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