Liturgical supplies cost

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Hello,
Is anyone out there who works in liturgy or has experience in ordering liturgical supplies? My parish is doing a stewardship drive and I need to show how the costs of items like altar wine, altar bread, candles, vestments, palms etc. have increased in price over the last 5 or so years.
If anyone has any statistics and could share, please let me know!
thanks!
 
Your bookkeeper should be able to give you those details from your general ledger accounts of the last 5 years. They should be able to easily run you a trend and detail report.

Alternately, your suppliers should be able to provide you with this data.
 
I agree with asking the bookeeper. Our parish controller just printed out what was spent for the last year since I have to do the budget for this coming year. He has every year’s budget and what was paid out for purchases in the computer.
 
lauriesings said:
Hello,
Is anyone out there who works in liturgy or has experience in ordering liturgical supplies? My parish is doing a stewardship drive and I need to show how the costs of items like altar wine, altar bread, candles, vestments, palms etc. have increased in price over the last 5 or so years.
If anyone has any statistics and could share, please let me know!
thanks!
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I am a parish bookkeeper—and I agree, ask your bookkeeper 😃 These should be detailed in the annual financial statements. Good luck.
 
I’m not sure how much of the cost of these admittedly-overpriced supplies is controlled by the retailer (i.e. Kaufer’s, Reilly’s, etc.) or the manufacturers that they represent. One complaint I’ve had is that lately, votive candle cups have arrived as cheap painted glass which scratches off, rather than colored glass which does not. The price has not changed, but the quality has fallen.
corsair said:
One of the most inexpensive places to buy liturgical supplies ins www.autom.com
Another site for vestments is www.catholiclituricals.com .

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My experience with Catholic Liturgicals is that their vestments are of outstanding quality for such a low price, made in India with European fabric. I have seen vestments from American and European makers five times the price of Catholic Liturgicals and of a lesser quality. Only one complaint: if you want a metallic gold cope or chasuble, order “white gold” rather than the regular gold, which is a non-metallic mustard-yellow color. Their brass items, which I have never ordered from CL, appear to be the same as many of those sold by Autom. I have ordered brasswares from Autom, and I’ve found that their inexpensive chalices and thuribles (also from India) are cheaply made and very thin. Those wooden-handled bells are flimsy and each bell sounds the same note, rather than having different notes.
 
lauriesings said:
Hello,
Is anyone out there who works in liturgy or has experience in ordering liturgical supplies? My parish is doing a stewardship drive and I need to show how the costs of items like altar wine, altar bread, candles, vestments, palms etc. have increased in price over the last 5 or so years.
If anyone has any statistics and could share, please let me know!
thanks!
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If your time frame is five years I can say that wine, hosts, candles and palms have not increased in price, at least within my parish. If anything with the Internet the prices have dropped for those willing to diligently shop.

Vestment costs have dropped rather dramatically with beautiful, high quality vestments coming out of Poland and other former Easter Bloc countries at a fraction (20-50%) of what the same vestments cost from Western sources. India and others are now selling even cheaper vestments although the quality level is not always as high. Both sources are putting pressure on the Almays of the world.
 
You could ask around to see if anyone or any parish has old catalogs lying around and compare the prices to today’s catalogs.
 
I also endorse Catholic Liturgicals. Their vestments are quite nice, and very high quality. Our chaplain orded some, and I’ve held their roman fiddlebacks in my own hands, and besides the price, they are not cheap, thin, or flimsy. Where else can you get a complete and high quality Solemn Mass set for $400?!? Or a roman cope for $160? That is simply unheard of anywhere else. Please, support them.
 
superamazingman said:
I also endorse Catholic Liturgicals. Their vestments are quite nice, and very high quality. Our chaplain orded some, and I’ve held their roman fiddlebacks in my own hands, and besides the price, they are not cheap, thin, or flimsy. Where else can you get a complete and high quality Solemn Mass set for $400?!? Or a roman cope for $160? That is simply unheard of anywhere else. Please, support them.
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Cheap prices are good as long as the source uses fair business practice and no child labour. What do we know about this distributor?
 
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