Liturgical colors

[George95]

Anyone have a particular color they like the most?

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

Anyone have a particular color they like the most?

Green and white

 

[seeking.IAM]

White and Blue!

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

The black and gold of Good Friday; solemn and beautiful: followed by the brilliant white and gold of Easter...

 

[PloverWing]

Purple!

(The photo is of the Episcopal church in my town, during a nighttime Advent service.)

 

[The Liturgist]

Anyone have a particular color they like the most?

Blue, so I’m in luck at this time of year, given the Dormition Fast. But I like, in general, the entire spectrum of liturgical colors according to the Orthodox uses, including even our controversial black vestments used by many churches during week days in Lent and Holy Week, except for Holy Thursday, which I regard as stressing the solemnity. The only thing I wish we wouldn’t do is default to gold, just as I wish the Western Rite wouldn’t default to green. I think I am opposed to default liturgical colors. The Copts and the Syriac Orthodox avoid this in creative ways, by only having white vestments with red and gold trim in the former case, and in the latter case by using a minimum of three colors of cloth on the altar (red, blue and green), and in most parishes, aside from a very few that follow the typical Eastern Orthodox color scheme, like St. Mark’s Cathedral in New Jersey, one will encounter a lack of a standard liturgical color except in Holy Week and the weeks of Pentecost, so one might see different clergy with different-colored vestments at the same liturgy. But there is a lot to be said for the elegant color coordination of the Orthodox liturgy. Although it should also be remembered that the typikon itself only talks about light or dark colors, so all color use beyond that is technically a matter of local custom, which is why some jurisdictions use white vestments until switching to green on Pentecost Sunday and others use them at the Paschal Matins before switching to red at the Paschal Divine Liturgy and wearing that until switching to white for the Ascension. Also some use gold at the Feast of the First Ecumenical Council after the Apodosis of Pascha but before Pentecost Sunday, during a period known as Ascensiontide in the Western church.

 

[The Liturgist]

The black and gold of Good Friday; solemn and beautiful: followed by the brilliant white and gold of Easter...
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That is a splendid chasuble.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

That is a splendid chasuble.

Thanks, my wife and I donated it.

 

[RileyG]

Violet and White.

 

[RileyG]

The black and gold of Good Friday; solemn and beautiful: followed by the brilliant white and gold of Easter...
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RC here, In Masses for the dead in the traditional Latin Mass (sometimes in the ordinary form), the priest will wear black.

It's not very common after Vatican II.

 

[RileyG]

White and Blue!

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In the RC Mass, some priests will wear Blue for Marian feast days

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

RC here, In Masses for the dead in the traditional Latin Mass (sometimes in the ordinary form), the priest will wear black.

It's not very common after Vatican II.

Actually, when I was a child, black paraments and stole were part of our tradition as well. Common traditions.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

In the RC Mass, some priests will wear Blue for Marian feast days

Blue has come into common usage for Advent since adoption of the 3 year lectionairy; some of our congregations still use purple.

 

[RileyG]

Blue has come into common usage for Advent since adoption of the 3 year lectionairy; some of our congregations still use purple.

I think blue in advent is common in Lutheranism, never in Catholicism.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

 

[RileyG]

Actually, when I was a child, black paraments and stole were part of our tradition as well. Common traditions.

Were you raised Catholic?

 

[The Liturgist]

Blue has come into common usage for Advent since adoption of the 3 year lectionairy; some of our congregations still use purple.

Advent is inherently a Marian period anyway, since our Lord was in the womb of the Theotokos prior to his birth, so for this reason I do not object to the Sarum Blue vestments being used in Advent.

RC here, In Masses for the dead in the traditional Latin Mass (sometimes in the ordinary form), the priest will wear black.

It's not very common after Vatican II.

I absolutely love black vestments. In the Byzantine Rite we use them, like in the traditional Latin Rite, during Holy Week, until Vespers on Holy Saturday, except on Palm Sunday where we use green, and Maundy Thursday where red, preferrably dark red, is traditional. And we also use them during weekdays in Lent like in the Ambrosian Rite.

 

[The Liturgist]

Were you raised Catholic?

The use of black vestments was common across Western liturgical rites in the past, including high church Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist and Roman Catholic. And durimg the Divine Office, Anglicans wore, and sometimes still wear, a black tippet, or scarf, atop their cassock and surplice, with bishops using a red tippet or a rochet.

 

[RileyG]

The use of black vestments was common across Western liturgical rites in the past, including high church Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist and Roman Catholic. And durimg the Divine Office, Anglicans wore, and sometimes still wear, a black tippet, or scarf, atop their cassock and surplice, with bishops using a red tippet or a rochet.

Thanks for the info!

 

[The Liturgist]

Thanks for the info!

I should also add, traditional Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans continue to use black vestments, as they ought so to do. Indeed, I advocate for the general and widespread reintroduction of black in all context except for individual funerals, where white is the color traditionally used by the Orthodox, with black only being used under RC influence.

The Coptic and Syriac Orthodox rites use black during Holy Week as well.

 

[RileyG]

I should also add, traditional Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans continue to use black vestments, as they ought so to do. Indeed, I advocate for the general and widespread reintroduction of black in all context except for individual funerals, where white is the color traditionally used by the Orthodox, with black only being used under RC influence.

The Coptic and Syriac Orthodox rites use black during Holy Week as well.

Actually, black was used in the ordinary form when I attended. I think it was on Good Friday.

I agree, though.