No, I have not. I was not all that impressed with the pre-charged communion "snack-pack" thingies that they really seem to be pushing:I don’t wear a hood as my cassock lacks one, and sometimes I wear a shirt with a full white clerical collar (of the style popular among Anglicans and Antiochian Orthodox, rather than the smaller clerical collar which is more popular among Romans) when visiting hospitals and doing that sort of thing. My cassock is actually a Byzantine rason, so it lacks a hood and a clerical collar, but it is more comfortable. I also use a Byzantine zostikon, which is just a Greek alb, and a Coptic one in the summer to match the Coptic combination chasuble-stole. These really do not look that different. On extremely hot days I will wear a grey shirt with a clerical collar and then use one of those handy double sided stoles (red and white, and green and purple) from Cokesbury, which mainly supplies Methodists, but I’ve bought stuff from them for years. They also sell the 1941 Lutheran Hymnal, which indicates either some Methodists like it, or some Lutherans use it. Have you heard of Cokesbury outside of our conversations @MarkRohfrietsch?
Amazon has been our go-to for nicely made, lined, Roman style Cassocks; about $70.00 Canadian each, and we have bought 4 over the past year; also bought two really nice pleated cottas for about $60 each.
Paraments and other vestments I have been ordering from India. A place called "Catholic Liturgicals", we can't believe the price, and there never seems to be much of an up-charge for custom work either. Excellent value, and excellent quality for a very budget price. In stock stuff takes about a week air freight, and shipping is rarely over $30.00 US. I have just ordered a set of green, brocade paraments which consist of embroidered 90" superfrontal, 30 pulpit hanger, two bible markers for about $200.00 Canadian. We already have the matching Veil, Pall and Burse; we got a set in all of our colours about 1 1/2 years ago; and only then realized how faded our paraments actually were.
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