Cassocks

[Ioustinos]

This may be a silly question, but is there any significance (other than personal preference) between grey and black cassocks worn by monastics?

Most monastics I have seen wear black cassocks while others, like my patron St. Philoumenos, wear grey ones. So is there any significance at all?

 

[RosaryChaplet9]

Not really, usually for clergy it is all black.

 

[Anhelyna]

Not in Orthodoxy or Eastern catholicism

My priest [ married] wears a grey Cassock as does the Sub-deacon

 

[gracefullamb]

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[Anhelyna]

Some even wear white

 

[ArmyMatt]

I know some change the color of cassocks depending on the seasons. black most of the year, green for Pentecost, white for Pascha, gray for when it gets hot but not Pascha, etc.

 

[E.C.]

Maybe the grey used to be black until it became salty

 

[Anhelyna]

Another one I heard was that monastic and celibate clergy wore black cassocks and married priests wore grey .

 

[choirfiend]

^^^Anhelyna. What she said. There were "light" and "dark" clergy in Moscovite Russian practice. Married priests wore a lighter color, the monastic wore dark.

There are black, navy, gray, white, I think I've even seen red once. So it could have a SLIGHT meaning, or it could be that gray was what given to him. A cassock can be different from a monastic's daily wear, too. The nuns who live on a working farm in NY wear a denim work-dress and cotton "under-head covering" all day and change into their "blacks" with their formal head veils and capes for liturgy.

 

[RosaryChaplet9]

All black is the best option.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Man, talk about some type of dyslexia... I saw "Cassock" and totally though "Cossack". Though I guess it could work either way.

 

[Dylan Michael]

Could it have to do with the climate?
In tropical countries, RC priests are allowed to wear white Cassocks. (Even in Florida)

 

[katherine2001]

My bishop wears a red cassock a lot. Some priests will wear gray ones in the summer and a black one other seasons of the year.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Man, talk about some type of dyslexia... I saw "Cassock" and totally though "Cossack". Though I guess it could work either way.

Me too.