Today I ordered a traditional style pyx and burse from Adrian Hamers. The pyx has sterling silver as a base metal and is gold plated. The burse probably dates from the 1930’s and is hand-embroidered, probably by nuns. They should arrive on Friday. I plan to take the pyx with me on Tuesday when I attend Low Mass in choir at the Institute of Christ the King’s oratory in Rockford to have it blessed according to the pre-Vatican II Rituale Romanum. Here are some pictures:
May 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
[...] on the fact that there aren’t too many groups of nuns these days who make things like the burse I ordered last summer. That’s when it occurred to me that I could found an order of nuns dedicated to making cool [...]