Inky Blogthon and the Quest for the Holy Grail--err... Proper Chalice... Prelude.

I've been plotting this since last school year. See, my school uses earthenware for everything at Mass, and it bugs me. So I began a quest, over the summer, to figure out how to get a proper chalice.

First, I asked the people at Saint John's Religious Shoppe in Spencerport. They told me how much it would cost to order one. By my calculations, every student in the school would have to give about a quarter (yes, I mean twenty-five cents) to mission collections on Friday and we'd have enough.

Then I asked the pastor of our parish (he's also a family friend), who told me that I could set something up with the Knights of Columbus where we get a chalice from a priest who has passed away. This would mean that it goes to a good home and we could make it a ceremony to the school, giving us positive PR. (That all looks good to the administration, so I'm keeping it in mind when I pitch this idea.)

My current stumbling blocks are as follows:
1. The campus minister is very nice, but a woman. That should tell you enough about the current orthodoxy of my school.
2. As such, the people there seem to like the concept of earthenware. I'll have to do research so I have references in front of me when I suggest it.
3. They're not really open to orthodox ideas. I don't know why. ...And then they tell ME to be open-minded. *sigh*
4. I hate to have to bring this point up, but chalices have to have some part of them be precious metal. That's a target for theft, right there. So the chalice would have to be locked up. But we have a tabernacle that we don't even use... can you lock the chalice in the tabernacle if the Blessed Sacrament isn't present?

I plan to suggest this idea to our campus minister after school next week. Pray for success!