[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[Scott Knitter]

I get to wear such an alb when I'm subdeacon at Easter or Christmas. I try
not to put my foot through the lace at the bottom as some have done here. :)

On Jan 4, 2017 4:35 PM, "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Those  awful filmy things! Bah...glad for our solid albs and gothic
> > vestments.  :)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > I think, though, that in the fullness of time, Ascension has seen them
> all
> > including lace albs and Roman and fiddleback chasubles.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> > vestments
> > were really stunning.
> >
> > On the vestment subject, the richest collection of vestments in the
> > USA that I have seen is at Saint Mark's, Philadelphia.
> >
> >
> > David S.
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