Gift for a New Priest
  • G
    Posts: 1,397
    Can anyone make a suggestion for an appropriate ordination gift, from the musicians in a parish, for a young man who seems to have all the right instincts, if not, perhaps, the right liturgical formation?
    (Anything with any reference to the EF would be out of the question.)

    Save the Liturgy, Save the World
  • darth_linux
    Posts: 120
    how about a very nice stole?
  • priorstf
    Posts: 460
    How about a subscription to Sacred Music?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    How about a copy of Missa Cantata from Priory Press?
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,160
    I wouldn't give the "Missa Cantata" until it gets revised per the new ICEL translation.

    How about a scholarship to the colloquium (or does that contain too much EF to be P.C.)?
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    I would gladly make him a handcrafted rosary.

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  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    I would give the Missa Cantata now because the new translation won't be a reality for two or three years -
    that is enough time for a brand new priest to develop NOW good liturgical habits and learn to sing the mass as it should be sung.
    (Now is this time for him to be... I believe the word is... 'inculturated', and properly so.
  • marajoymarajoy
    Posts: 781
    or maybe a subscription to Adoremus?
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    Gregorian Missal.
    Gregorian Missal.
    Gregorian Missal.
    Gregorian Missal.
    Gregorian Missal.
    Gregorian Missal.
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    Then, The Parish Book of Chant.
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    Numerous insights:
    http://wdtprs.com/blog/2008/11/quaeritur-what-to-buy-a-priest/
    http://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/04/quaeritur-gift-for-a-transitional-deacon/
  • OlbashOlbash
    Posts: 314
    And don't forget to throw in a copy of "Blessed Is the Ordinary":
    http://cdbaby.com/cd/steppingstonechant
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