SPLIT: Obtaining new/using old chalices, etc

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I am working on just what you’re talking about. I am from a parish from the archdiocese of Indianapolis, In. I have learned that our diocese has a purchasing agent that works for us. I contacted him and we can buy chalices and ciborium (communion bowls) through him. Actually, he will order them for us from a store that the diocese of Buffalo New York has set up. I might be wrong, but I think you need to go through a purchasing agent in your diocese, not direct. Don’t hold me to it, but I thing you will get about a 25% discount going this way. Also, our agent told me to have my paster check with the antiquities office. When a Priest dies, his chalice is taken to this office where it is then just put on a shelf to collect dust. He thought the deceased priest would rather see his chalice being reactivated in another parish. Granted the chalices would all be different, but what a beautiful site it would be.
 
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I am working on just what you’re talking about. I am from a parish from the archdiocese of Indianapolis, In. I have learned that our diocese has a purchasing agent that works for us. I contacted him and we can buy chalices and ciborium (communion bowls) through him. Actually, he will order them for us from a store that the diocese of Buffalo New York has set up. I might be wrong, but I think you need to go through a purchasing agent in your diocese, not direct. Don’t hold me to it, but I thing you will get about a 25% discount going this way. Also, our agent told me to have my paster check with the antiquities office. When a Priest dies, his chalice is taken to this office where it is then just put on a shelf to collect dust. He thought the deceased priest would rather see his chalice being reactivated in another parish. Granted the chalices would all be different, but what a beautiful site it would be.
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Using a deceased priest’s chalice is a lovely idea but that can come at quite a price if it has to be replated as many of them need to be. We had our two chalices done about 8 years ago – it cost us $400/chalice and gold wasn’t selling near today’s price at that time. Luckily, the K of C offered to pay for them. It was worth it for the chalices we had but you can buy a fairly large plain new chalice for that price.
 
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Using a deceased priest’s chalice is a lovely idea but that can come at quite a price if it has to be replated as many of them need to be. We had our two chalices done about 8 years ago – it cost us $400/chalice and gold wasn’t selling near today’s price at that time. Luckily, the K of C offered to pay for them. It was worth it for the chalices we had but you can buy a fairly large plain new chalice for that price.
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That may be a fly in the ointment for me. We have two cups that I was going to look in to having them refinished with gold plating, I haven’t looked into pricing yet.I’m sure the price of gold is much cheaper in Indy, not!

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Mike
 
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