I hereby present a project.
We build the corporal and spiritual health of the communities which enjoy the Vetus Ordo brick by brick. By helping them, we raise all boats like a rising tide. Those who attend the Novus Ordo are also genuinely aided by attraction and osmosis.
At The Parish™, buried in a bottom drawer, is a spectacular white set worked with real gold from the time of Bl. Pius IX… he was a member of the mighty Archconfraternity. It is difficult adequately to underscore the importance of this group in Rome over the centuries.
The white set has also an altar frontal and tabernacle canopy.
Here is a photo of the frontal with the canopy. NB: The canopy has been cleaned, but it needs more. Look at the difference the years have wrought.
The vestments are in bad shape. Here are a few of many photos I took. First, look at this.
What must be done? All of the decoration must be removed and transferred to new fabric. This takes expert knowledge. We have someone!
Some close ups of some of the pieces.
Makes you want to cry. BUT… they are ready for rebirth. As they are… using them would do terrible damage.
Gosh.
Here’s the point.
I’ll start with a bid for funds for the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison. In this weird time of ecclesial demolition it is hard to know where your monetary support should go for constructive purposes. Always remember the TMSM – 501(c)(3).
The estimate for the work is €12,000 which is about $14000.
We are going to restore this set. It will take months. It will only get more expensive and iffy the longer we wait.
I ask for donors willing to pledge at least $500 but ideally $1000 to the TMSM, which will pay for the restoration.
You names will be recorded and a document placed with the vestments so that you will be remembered by name when they are used.
When I get the right number of pledges, we can pull the trigger.
We have a good track record. We did their baptismal font when they became the Traditional Parish in Rome, black vestments, red vestments.
Please drop me a note HERE and put this in the subject: PLEDGE
If you want to pledge more, great!
DO NOT SENT MONEY YET. When we have pledges, I will ask you – individually – for checks to go to the TMSM. Non-$US donations can come maybe another way which I will figure out.
Friends, this is an important set of vestments… let’s save them and bring them back to the altar.
