The Search for Altar Server Vestments

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I have been in the search for altar server vestments (just a cassock and surplice), but they are extremely expensive. I am borrowing a set right now (my Latin Mass community has no spare vestments for me to serve in for them, as I am an altar boy in training), but I will have to return it soon, and I don’t want to have to depend on borrowing for longer than need be. I did, however, come across liturgical-clothing.com, a company based in Poland. Their vestments are the most reasonable, but I want to know your thoughts on the credibility and reliability of the website, and where else I could do some searching.
 
The quality looks okay to me, I have bought vestments from Poland before, but not from this particular company.

It is not typical for altar servers to have to buy their own vesture, however. The Church should supply that for you, after all, you are providing a free service to them, and young men seldom have money for that sort of thing.

When I have bought vestments from Europe before, I have waited quite a long time to get them; part of that is the shipping, part is customs clearance, and so forth, FYI.

At my Ukrainian parish, the ladies sew vestments for the servers; maybe someone at the parish could make you a cassock.

Deacon Christopher
 
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It is not typical for altar servers to have to buy their own vesture, however. The Church should supply that for you, after all, you are providing a free service to them, and young men seldom have money for that sort of thing.
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My Latin Mass community celebrates Mass at 3 different churches, and 2 of them either do not have vestments whatsoever, or they aren’t lending. I haven’t checked the 3rd one, so that’s a possibility, but our community leader wants altar servers to buy vestments because of the different churches we will serve each Sunday. We might serve at the no-vestments-for-servers church one Sunday.
 
They both are the same price for the vestments, but they’re $90 + tax. That’s getting too expensive, but I will buy them if I must. Thank you for the links. I didn’t if if liturgical-clothing.com was legitimate or not.
 
I don’t know anything about the other site, and I don’t know the rate euro exchange to compare prices but I would think with shipping it may come out about the same or maybe a little less. I would rather deal with a company here than overseas if possible, but I don’t know where you are located.
 
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Are you a teenage boy or an adult man?

I would NEVER ask (or require) altar servers to provide their own vesture.

The “Latin Mass Community” needs to provide the things necessary for the celebration of the Eucharist. Do they ask the priests to buy their own vestments? Who pays for the incense? Who provides the chalice? How do you get bread and wine?
No child should be expected to pay for his cassock and surplice.
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If the movement can’t outfit the ministers, they are not ready for public worship. Some benefactor in the movement could donate the vesture needed.

Deacon Christopher
 
My main Latin parish does not have altar server vestments, so that is why I would need my own pair, for the borrowing deadline might be very short. I can borrow, but I don’t want to have to rely on borrowing. Yet, it does make sense, Deacon, about altar servers not needing to buy their own vestments. It would be for only one parish in the mean time. The Latin Mass community (Mater Dolorosa in the diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana) lives in 3 different churches, but I’m serving at the one without the vestments.
 
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