Liturgical Colors in Anglican Communion

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Ordinary Time: Green
Christmas, Easter, Feast of Trinity, Funerals and Weddings: Paschal White
Feast of Pentecost, Martyrs, Holy Spirit: Red
Advent, Lent: Purple (or *VIOLET if you prefer ;) )

VERY RARELY will you see BLACK VESTMENTS at funerals anymore.
SOMETIMES "rose colored" vestments might be worn during Gaudete Sunday depending how "traditional" the parish is.
SOMETIMES blue vestments are worn for Marian feast days.

How much difference is there?

Thanks!!! :D
 
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My vicar wears a black shirt for funerals - the only time he wears black.

Other than that, he has a whole array of coloured shirts, which he wears randomly. I imagine the selection depends on where his wife is with the laundry.
 
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RC breakdown:
Ordinary Time: Green
Christmas, Easter, Feast of Trinity, Funerals and Weddings: Paschal White
Feast of Pentecost, Martyrs, Holy Spirit: Red
Advent, Lent: Purple (or *VIOLET if you prefer ;) )

VERY RARELY will you see BLACK VESTMENTS at funerals anymore.
SOMETIMES "rose colored" vestments might be worn during Gaudete Sunday depending how "traditional" the parish is.
SOMETIMES blue vestments are worn for Marian feast days.

How much difference is there?

Thanks!!! :D

The same at my church. Last time I was on duty at a funeral the (visiting) priest wore dark purple rather than black.
 
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RC breakdown:
Ordinary Time: Green
Christmas, Easter, Feast of Trinity, Funerals and Weddings: Paschal White
Feast of Pentecost, Martyrs, Holy Spirit: Red
Advent, Lent: Purple (or *VIOLET if you prefer ;) )

VERY RARELY will you see BLACK VESTMENTS at funerals anymore.
SOMETIMES "rose colored" vestments might be worn during Gaudete Sunday depending how "traditional" the parish is.
SOMETIMES blue vestments are worn for Marian feast days.

How much difference is there?

There's hardly any difference. Blue is rarely used, however, and is usually a substitute for purple these days; and Rose is more likely to appear on Laetare Sunday than Gaudete Sunday.
 
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There's hardly any difference. Blue is rarely used, however, and is usually a substitute for purple these days; and Rose is more likely to appear on Laetare Sunday than Gaudete Sunday.
Places I've known that use rose, use it on both.
 
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Others have pointed out blue for advent. Rose is maybe more common than in the RCC?

Also, there's an option for unbleached linen in lent, which I think quite effective.

We use only plain white linen on our table year round.
 
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Ordinary Time: Green
Christmas, Easter, Feast of Trinity, Funerals and Weddings: Paschal White
Feast of Pentecost, Martyrs, Holy Spirit: Red
Advent, Lent: Purple (or *VIOLET if you prefer ;) )

VERY RARELY will you see BLACK VESTMENTS at funerals anymore.
SOMETIMES "rose colored" vestments might be worn during Gaudete Sunday depending how "traditional" the parish is.
SOMETIMES blue vestments are worn for Marian feast days.

How much difference is there?

Thanks!!! :D

It seems our practices are similar. Do any Anglican parishes use black for Maundy Thursday, strip the altars for Good Friday? Some of our Parishes use Gold or Gold/White Paraments and vestments for Christmas and Easter Days; then white for the seasons of Christmas and Easter.
 
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It seems our practices are similar. Do any Anglican parishes use black for Maundy Thursday, strip the altars for Good Friday? Some of our Parishes use Gold or Gold/White Paraments and vestments for Christmas and Easter Days; then white for the seasons of Christmas and Easter.

Black for Maundy Thurs--no. Strip the altar--yes. Gold and white are the same color, liturgically speaking, but gold is sometimes used for major holy days, as you indicate.
 
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It seems our practices are similar. Do any Anglican parishes use black for Maundy Thursday, strip the altars for Good Friday? Some of our Parishes use Gold or Gold/White Paraments and vestments for Christmas and Easter Days; then white for the seasons of Christmas and Easter.
We don't alter the table covering. It's always plain white linen.

What we do change for the seasons are the banners in the chancel.
 
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The altar is stripped at the end of Maundy Thursday, and the sanctuary remains stripped throughout Good Friday. Our priest wears a plain black cassock with no other vestments, and the cross is draped with a purple robe and a crown of thorns. I think it remains there throughout the Holy Saturday vigil and then is taken down when the the Altar Guild prepares for Resurrection Sunday.

The only other odd liturgical tradition is that we extend the use of Red from Pentecost Sunday through the first three Sundays after Trinity to create a mini season of Pentecost before returning to regular observation of Ordinary Time. This is a local tradition that developed due to the fact that my parish is quite charismatic.

We don't use rose/pink for any of the appropriate days, though I've suggested at the very least a pink candle for Advent 3, and we do not use Sarum Blue in Advent.

We have banners for the chancel and frontals for the altar for each season. The priests have multiple stoles for red/white/purple/green seasons. Primarily different whites/reds.

My parish is fairly low church, so we do not observe the feasts of saints properly, though they are at times mentioned if they happen to fall on a Sunday and there is some connection to the assigned lectionary reading that day.
 
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It seems our practices are similar. Do any Anglican parishes use black for Maundy Thursday, strip the altars for Good Friday? Some of our Parishes use Gold or Gold/White Paraments and vestments for Christmas and Easter Days; then white for the seasons of Christmas and Easter.
I would not be shocked considering Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans are very much liturgical.(Some Methodists might be as well...).

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RC breakdown:
Ordinary Time: Green
Christmas, Easter, Feast of Trinity, Funerals and Weddings: Paschal White
Feast of Pentecost, Martyrs, Holy Spirit: Red
Advent, Lent: Purple (or *VIOLET if you prefer ;) )

VERY RARELY will you see BLACK VESTMENTS at funerals anymore.
SOMETIMES "rose colored" vestments might be worn during Gaudete Sunday depending how "traditional" the parish is.
SOMETIMES blue vestments are worn for Marian feast days.

How much difference is there?

Thanks!!! :D
we are basically vestments maker .a few days ago we got a order for red vestments .He mentioned that those vestments are for funerals ..do Anglican churches use Red for funeral?

www.psgvestments.com
 
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we are basically vestments maker .a few days ago we got a order for red vestments .He mentioned that those vestments are for funerals ..do Anglican churches use Red for funeral?

www.psgvestments.com
None that I've ever heard of.

However, there's a "problem" with "Anglican." While there is "The Episcopal Church" which is the American representative of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and there are a number of well-known split-offs which use the generic or historic term "Anglican" to distinguish themselves from the Episcopal Church, there are also a number of completely unrelated and historically unconnected congregations and micro-denominations that simply buy vestments and claim to be "Anglican," knowing that it sounds historic and English (i.e. dignified) but is almost a generic term like "Orthodox," "Anabaptist," or "Catholic." Some even assume that it's an obsolete or archaic term like "Gnostic" or "Arian" and so safe for them to use.

This means they won't wind up being sued by any established American church body (as has happened with the denominational names of a number of other churches).

'Who's who' can usually be ascertained by checking into the website of "Anglican" church in question.
 
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