Through Him all things were made, including gold, silk, cocaine and prostitutes. My limited understanding is that these costly things are offered back to God by being used in connection with the Church's life of public prayer, the liturgy.
The sentence doesn't work nearly as well when a couple of other things are added...
On the contrary. The priest wearing silk vestments and raising the gold chalice is praying for the salvation of the whole world, including the prostitute and the cocaine trafficker.