[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Grace Cangialosi]

Shortly after I was ordained I was in a vesting room with clergy before some diocesan event. One of my friends had on an alb with an unusual band of lace around the bottom and the sleeves. I asked her where she'd gotten it, and one of our male colleagues--who was, in fact, a strong supporter of women's ordination--said, "Yes, this was one of the things against women's ordination: that we'd start having fashion shows!"

I have to say, though, that the most ornate and lacy vestments I've seen have been on men!

> On Jan 4, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 1/4/2017 3:51:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
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> Those  awful filmy things! Bah...glad for our solid albs and gothic 
> vestments.  :)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> I think, though, that in the fullness of time, Ascension has seen them  all
> including lace albs and Roman and fiddleback chasubles.
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> I don't mind lace albs if they match, but I don't like noticeably  different
> clashing lace alb styles for the three sacred ministers.
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> The switch was made about 15 years ago by the local Tridentine
> Riters to plain white albs (always worn with amices) about 15 years  ago.
> The story at the time was that the lace albs had become too  expensive.
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> Re:  Chasubles - The Art Institute of Chicago had a wonderful  exposition
> of Eucharistic vestments through the centuries.  They put out a  catalog
> of the exposition that I suspect is still available.  A lot of the  
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> were really stunning.
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> On the vestment subject, the richest collection of vestments in the
> USA that I have seen is at Saint Mark's, Philadelphia.
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> David S.
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