Ivory and Gold Ordination Priest Stole with Chalice, Keys and Grapevine Embroidery

Each panel opens with a chalice crowned by a rising flame, set behind crossed keys — the Eucharist the priest will consecrate, and the keys entrusted to the Church in Matthew 16:19. Beneath them a grapevine climbs the length of the orphrey in curling scrollwork, its clusters and leaves recalling the vine and the branches of John 15. Near each hem, in gold script, the words Ordained 2026.

The whole design is worked in a single tone of gold against an ivory ground. That restraint is deliberate: the motifs stay legible from the back of a church and at the altar, where a busier scheme would read as clutter. A narrow woven gold galloon runs the full length of both edges and across the back yoke, and gold bullion fringe finishes each hem.

Ivory and gold belong to the white liturgical class. This stole is intended first for ordination, a first Mass, and anniversaries of ordination. Because its imagery is Eucharistic rather than seasonal, it is equally correct wherever white or gold is worn — solemnities, feasts of Our Lord, and Masses of thanksgiving.

It is not intended for Advent or Lent, which call for violet; for Pentecost or Holy Week, which call for red; or for Ordinary Time, which calls for green.

The stole is cut in the priest's manner — worn straight down over both shoulders rather than across the body — which makes it suitable for a newly ordained priest, a seminarian preparing for ordination, or anyone giving a vestment as an ordination gift. The back is finished with a shaped yoke so the panels sit flat across the shoulders and hang evenly on either side.

It is worn over the alb and cincture, beneath the chasuble at Mass, or over cassock and surplice for other rites.

The year shown can be changed, and a name may be added in the same gold script. Send the details with your order.

See the rest of our clergy stoles and vestments for priests, browse white and ivory vestments or the matching chasubles, or ask about custom and made to measure vestments.

Two guides from the Journal answer the questions we are asked most about a stole like this: how long a clergy stole should be for your height, and how to take the measurements a maker asks for. The guide to who wears what explains where the stole sits among the other eucharistic vestments.