How many red stoles does one person need?The Anglican Book Centre in Toronto has taken a page from Holt Renfrew Holt Renfrew is a chain of high-end Canadian department stores. It is comparable to Barneys New York[1] and Saks Fifth Avenue[2] in the United States, and to two other upmarket chains owned by the same family, Britain's Selfridges and Ireland's Brown Thomas. and The Bay and set up a gift registry for newly-ordained priests, who sometimes receive less-than-useful or duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. gifts from well-meaning family and friends. After all, reads a sign in the store promoting the registry, "how many red stoles does one person need?" The postulant pos·tu·lant n. 1. A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner. 2. A candidate for admission into a religious order. , or ordination ordination: see ministry; orders, holy. candidate, can give the store measurements for clergy garments such as shirts, cassocks and albs, a list of books or other items, and refer gift inquiries to the book centre. Manager Dan Graves said the idea developed after staff realized that the most common request received was from friends and family members of postulants asking about gift ideas. "They don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what (the recipients) need," he said. The book centre, a nationally-known retailer of books, vestments, cards, church accessories and other religious items, is located at 80 Hayden St., Toronto, at the Anglican Church of Canada's national office. Its telephone number is 1-800-268-1168. |
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