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Institute of the Incarnate Word Seminary

This wonderful religious order, originally founded in Argentina, now serves in many countries throughout the world. They are especially focused on serving the poor, serving in parishes, catechesis, reverent liturgy, the youth, families, and the evangelization of culture. Here are some of their practical and liturgical needs:

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From the IVE website:

Particular items needed: We are always very grateful to anyone who can make any donation whatsoever, but there are particular things that we stand in the most need of. These include:

• food (almost anything!)
• toiletries
• undershirts
• socks
• black sweaters
• black pants
• white dress shirts (for our postulants)
• black jackets & coats
• appropriate books: philosophy, theology, history, etc.
• any nice religious artwork (pictures, prints, statues) for the (now rather bare) walls of the seminary
• wall crucifixes of any size (we need them for a number of the rooms and halls in our seminary)
• a high-quality camera (a digital SLR that can take pictures in rapid succession and has a decent photo quality in low-light conditions

Contribute to the Liturgical Life of the Seminary: There are a number of liturgical items of which we are also in need. Perhaps most particularly, we need dalmatics, the vestment which our deacons wear in the celebration of the Holy Mass—we need two of them in every liturgical color: white, green, red, purple, rose, and black (perhaps in that order of importance). First and foremost, we can arrange for our contemplative sisters to make these vestments for essentially only the cost of the fabric (contact us for more information about this). However, there are other places—one affordable place where beautiful mass vestments can be purchased at an affordable price is Luzar Vestments. (The link is for their High Mass sets, which include two dalmatics along with a chasuble for the priest, but you can also purchase their dalmatics individually). Gaspard Vestments has another line ("Regal") of dalmatics (and several other chasuble lines) that are very nice. Another place that makes very beautiful vestments (albeit not inexpensively) is Susan Maria Vestments—we would welcome donations of beautiful chasubles or dalmatics from any of the above. That said, the following items would be particularly useful:*

• wall-mounted bells to be rung at beginning of mass
• altar candlesticks
• votive candle stands
• breviaries (4-volume in English or Latin)
• Benediction sets (which consist of humeral veil and cope)
• Adoremus hymnals (available at Ignatius Press)
• Parish Book of Chant hymnals (available at Amazon)
• Gregorian Missals (available here)
• altar candles (in 1 1/2" size)
• a processional cross (crucifix)
• processional candles
• a processional canopy for Eucharistic processions
• a thabor (the stand on which a monstrance is placed)

*We know that many of these items are expensive bought new, but also know it is also possible that some of our friends and benefactors (particularly priests) might have some of these items in a worthy but used condition, and which are no longer of use to them.


If you have any questions regarding whether we might be able to use something, please feel free to contact us:

Bishop Fulton Sheen House of Formation
5706 Sargent Rd.
Chillum, MD 20782
(301) 773-3635.
sem.washington@ive.org


Make a Monetary Donation: We currently have nearly 60 men in formation in this province, all of whom we must feed and provide with health care in addition to the costs associated with their studies. Just as pressing is the fact that within the next year we will entirely run out of space in our seminary and either need to buy/build a new building or purchase houses next to our current seminary--currently we do not have nearly enough money to do either. There are also several other important projects for which we are currently fundraising. To make a donation, click here.