Requiem from a Dumpster

In a recent conversation, a friend lamented that during the notorious "Summer of Love" the vestments that the Church threw into the dumpster, the hippies recovered and wore on parade around the streets of San Francisco- with nothing underneath.

This horrific story reaffirms my hoarding instinct to buy up and "rescue" anything that was once used in the sacred liturgy, like this Requiem stole and maniple.

This is Part III of Recovering What was Lost.  (Part II here)

-August 22, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary-

"Come on kids, let's take the rest of the homeschool day off and go on an excursion!"

Was it a coincidence that we wandered down that particular street and I found myself glancing through that particular store window?  Was it a fluke that on that particular morning the shopkeeper put out the "exotic French textiles" that had been sitting in the storeroom gathering dust after an unsuccessful first run? 

And there it was shimmering in the window, that same metallic fringe I had seen before.
Yes, the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph!