{"id":67,"date":"2013-06-09T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-06-09T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T17:47:22","slug":"gift-ideas-for-newly-ordained-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/gift-ideas-for-newly-ordained-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift ideas for newly ordained minister, priest, deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Interfaith<\/a>A perfect gift for a new ordained minister is our Interfaith Minister Manual [offered in the check-out cart online when you become ordained by us]. I also think a white minister stole is a fabulous gift idea. Both can be used when performing a wedding, and the minister looks great, by the way!<\/p>\n

One of my favorite blogs is called The Deacon’s Bench, Where [Catholic] Deacon Greg Kandra Ponders the World. Deacon Greg is Catholic but he seems to be sympathetic with women’s ordination causes, and he often posts items useful to non-denominational and interfaith ministers. \u00a0Like, “What should you give a newly ordained priest or deacon” …<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/06\/what-should-you-give-a-newly-ordained-priest-or-deacon\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Over on his Facebook page, Fr. James Martin has some ideas:<\/div>\n
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The best gift of all is your love and prayers, but in case you want to supplement that, the most useful gifts (in my experience) are as follows, in order of cost. (By the way, none of the following companies put me up to this!)<\/div>\n
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First, the various \u201crites books,\u201d which the priest can use for weddings, baptisms or funerals (normally a soon-to-be-ordained priest will already have the Roman Missal, a Lectionary, a breviary and so on, but still might need the rites books.) You can find them almost anywhere, but Catholic Book Publishing is a good start:\u00a0http:\/\/www.catholicbookpublishing.com\/list\/category\/liturgical+Editions<\/a><\/div>\n
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Second, a Mass kit, which a priest can bring with him to celebrate Mass where there might not be all the necessary supplies, etc.:http:\/\/www.catholicsupply.com\/churchs\/masskit.html<\/a><\/div>\n
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Finally, if you really want to give something memorable, a stole. The best color, to my mind, is gold and white, since you can use it almost anywhere (baptisms, weddings, etc.) The \u201cgold standard\u201d is made by the Trappists in Spencer, Mass., at the Holy Rood Guild. You can also get them to embroider a little greeting on the back.\u00a0http:\/\/www.holyroodguild.com\/xcart2\/Canterbury_Stole.html<\/a><\/div>\n
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And the nicest ordination cards are from Printery House:<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.printeryhouse.org\/ProdMenu.asp?cid=674<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Deacon Greg adds: I can only add: Amen.<\/div>\n
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At my ordination several people gave me stoles, and my wife and her parents chipped in to buy me a couple beautiful dalmatics, too. \u00a0Several people in the parish gave me gift certificates to a local church goods store. Another great resource, I think, is\u00a0Deacon Store<\/a><\/strong>, which offers online gift certificates.\u00a0My idol, Elizabeth Scalia<\/strong>,<\/a>\u00a0gave me a certificate from there when I was ordained. \u00a0My goddaughter (whom I\u2019d sponsored through RCIA, btw) gave me a nice chapel edition of the Sacramentary which I kept for reference at home (but with the new Missal, sadly, it\u2019s out of date).<\/div>\n
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When in doubt, a little cash can\u2019t hurt, along with any spare prayers!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A perfect gift for a new ordained minister is our Interfaith Minister Manual [offered in the check-out cart online when you become ordained by us]. I also think a white minister stole is a fabulous gift idea. Both can be used when performing a wedding, and the minister looks great, by the way! One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-become-ordained"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}