Today, September 30th, we celebrate another great church father, a pillar of our faith. This is the feast day for Saint Jerome, who was born in northern Italy. Jerome was born into a wealthy Christian family circa 342 A.D. at Stridon on the borders of Dalmatia and Pannonia. From the earliest of memories, he recalled being taught the Catholic doctrines. Eventually he renounced the world, his secular career path, and journeyed to Rome to be baptized by the Bishop of Rome – Pope Liberius—sometime before the year 366 A.D.—which is… Read more September 30th: St. Jerome →
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Today I would like to talk about linen and those vestments and vestures made of linen. While doing some reading on linen pieces, I came across this brilliant thought from… Read more Church Linen–Roulin →
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This is the third and final installment about headwear for this three part series. Already we have learned about the Amice and the Mitre. Today’s vestment is very distinct as… Read more Headwear Part III: The Tiara—Norris →
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A few days back on Ecclesiastical Sewing, we had a post on matching patterns while working with liturgical vestment fabrics. Once the patterns are matched up on the fabric, the next step is to determine pattern placement on the vestment (IE – those big roses and fleur-de-lis on Lichfield – where will they land once the garment is cut?) This can be another area of concern, and rightly so. I have made my fair share of “pattern placement” mistakes over the years. Pattern or motif placement when working with Ecclesiastical… Read more Lichfield Liturgical Fabric: Reformation Stole and Chasuble →
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As many of us return to our respective church sacristies following the sporadic nature of summer schedules, there is often a bit of house keeping needed to put things in… Read more Altar Linens: Linen Fabric Choices →
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Today’s topic is a historical biography about a saint from the seventh and eighth centuries. St. Hubert—circa 656 A.D. to 727 A.D.— was a Bishop of Liege and along with… Read more St. Hubert →
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Liturgical fabrics used for making church vestments are designed to capture the attention, to provoke a sense of wonder and awe, to beautify the worship service, remind us of the… Read more Working with Liturgical Fabrics: Pattern Matching →
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Today marks yet another day of celebration in the year of the church. September 14th is noted as being Holy Cross Day, which is celebrated in both Eastern and Western… Read more Holy Cross Day September 14 →
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Today is a very special day, a very special feast day. As Christians, we have been lead to our current place in time by our forefathers, who painstakingly paved the… Read more September 13th—John Chrysostom →
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Rich, bold, vibrant, striking. These adjectives cannot begin to describe the beautiful nature of true Ecclesiastical or liturgical fabrics used for making church vestments. Whether it is a pattern or… Read more Lovely Ecclesiastical Fabrics →
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The mitre is part two of the three part series talking about ecclesiastical vestments that are headwear. Today we again travel back in time to the days of the Greeks. They were not an ostentatious people in the designing of their clothing. For instance, they wore two types of headwear and both were meant for practicality instead of fashion. The working classes—soldiers, sailors, and artisans—wore a skull-cap called a pilos. As the word skull cap suggests, this was a form fitting cap that shaped the skull, snuggly encircling over the… Read more Headwear Part II: The Mitre—Norris →
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Over the next few days I would like to talk to you about certain ecclesiastical vestments that are worn on the head. Often we focus our gaze on the voluptuous garments that cover our ministers of the church. It is important to know each distinct garment and its history. Based in practical reasoning, traditions are now carried on without knowing the origin. When we travel to Europe, view exhibits in a museum, or look in old volumes, we see all kinds of garments that our ministers no longer wear, or… Read more Part I: The Amice—Norris →
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What do we see on top of the mensa when we enter a church? There are certain altar linens that all have their specific usages. There are, however, also non-fabric… Read more Sacred Vessels →
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Here is the second church; this is the Duomo di Mantova—The Cathedral of Mantova. This church is dedicated to St. Peter and is the official seat of the Bishop of… Read more Summer Travels Italy Part II →
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