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	Liturgical colours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liturgical colours are colours of vestments and church decorations within a Christian liturgy.
		The symbolism of purple, white, green, red, gold, fl, and rose may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.
		Further, if not enough vestments of the proper color are available (particularly in concelebrations), white may always be substituted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liturgical_colors (557 words)

	Practices of Faith: Liturgical Colors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Violet is the ancient royal color and therefore a symbol of the sovereignty of Christ.
		Red evokes the color of blood, and therefore is the color of martyrs and of Christ's death on the Cross.
		The somber colors are a reminder of the unbleached "sackcloth" worn by mourners and penitents in the Jewish tradition.
	www.ucc.org /worship/colors.htm (1443 words)

	Liturgical Colors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Purple is the ancient royal color and therefore a symbol of the sovereignty of Christ; a royalty that is known most profoundly in his suffering and death.
		Red represents the color of blood, and therefore is the color of martyrs and of Christ's death on the Cross.
		The color for funerals preferred to use White or Gold, that is colors of Easter and therefore of resurrection hope.
	www.stcecilia.org /artenv/LitColors.htm (520 words)

	PoP - Colors of the Liturgical Seasons
		Just as music is the "handmaiden to theology," liturgical color complements the message of the seasons and occasions during the church year.
		Liturgical colors aid in establishing a climate in which Law and Gospel may be heard and received.
		Color, like light which is its source, is most helpful when it is pleasing as well as stimulating to the senses.
	www.poplc.org /services/page-colors.asp (1864 words)

	ELCA : Worship : FAQ : The Meaning and Use of Liturgical Colors
		In the Christian tradition colors are used for vestments and paraments, but a unified system of colors developed only gradually and haphazardly until and through the Middle Ages.
		The colors serve to adorn the worship space, and to call attention to the nature of the season or festival being celebrated.
		Lent : Purple is indicated, as the stark color of repentance and solemnity.
	www.elca.org /dcm/worship/faq/worship_space/liturgical_colors.html (659 words)

	What Color is Lent?
		Blue is not a liturgical color, however, and is not to be used as the main vestment color.
		Rose colored vestments may be worn on the third Sundays of Advent and Lent, to suggest a pause or lift in the penitential focus of these seasons, appropriate because of the initial Latin words of the collects for these Sundays, which mention rejoicing.
		But the main fabric of all the liturgical vestments is always to be of the prescribed liturgical colors.
	www.adoremus.org /color-lent.html (1034 words)

	Rose-Colored Vestments on Gaudete Sunday
		The use of the diverse colors is both pedagogical and symbolic of the various liturgical feasts and seasons.
		The liturgical color is thus a lightened violet and is darker than the pale hue usually associated with pink.
		Pink, "any of a group of colors with a reddish hue that are of low to moderate saturation and can usually reflect or transmit a large amount of light; a pale reddish tint," is not counted among the liturgical colors.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Liturgy/zlitur61.htm (1170 words)

	The Liturgical Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The colors used for the vestments worn by the priest during the liturgy also help express the character of the mysteries being celebrated.
		White, the color of joy and victory, is used for the seasons of Easter and Christmas.
		Red (the color of fire) recalls the Holy Spirit and is used on Pentecost and for the sacrament of Confirmation.
	www.cyberfaith.com /calendar/colors.html (229 words)

	Orthodoxy's Liturgical Vestment Colors
		In the Orthodox Church, six liturgical colors are used: white, green, purple, red, blue, and gold.
		Black is traditionally the color of death and mourning in the West, but in the far East white is the color of death and mourning.
		Remember that this rich deep reddish purple color is also the ancient color of royalty, and for that reason, it is used behind the Royal Doors and as a drapery on the Golgotha and in other places associated with our Lord and His Mother.
	aggreen.net /vestment/liturgical_colors.html (1659 words)

	Sadlier We Believe
		The Liturgical Year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which usually occurs around the beginning of December or the end of November, and ends on the feast of Christ the King.
		However, the purpose of the Liturgical Year Calendar is not to mark the passage of time, but to celebrate and understand more fully the entire mystery of Jesus Christ, from his incarnation and birth until his ascension, the day of Pentecost, and the expectation of his return in glory.
		A small colored cross reflects the color of the vestments to be worn by the priest during each celebration of the liturgy.
	www.webelieveweb.com /students_liturgical_year.cfm (631 words)

	Liturgical colours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Liturgical colours are colours of vestments and churchdecorations within a Christian liturgy.
		The symbolism of purple, white, green, red, gold, fl and rose may serve tounderline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or mayhighlight a special occasion.
		Somechurches replace purple during Lent (except Holy Week) with a Lenten array consisting of unbleached muslin cloth (varying in color butusually ranging from off-white to beige) with accents of crimson or fl.
	www.therfcc.org /liturgical-colours-99006.html (143 words)

	Scarsdale Congregational Church - Liturgical Colors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There is not an absolute standard as to these colors; here are some of the guidelines that have developed.
		The liturgical color in this season is green - symbolizing life, growth and the church in mission.
		Red, the color of martyrs, is sometimes worn on Palm Sunday and the next three days of Holy Week.
	www.scc-ucc.org /Worship_and_Music/colors.html (258 words)

	Worship Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Color usage was more diverse in the past, mainly because dyes were expensive and it wasnât as easy as it is today to get fabric in any color.
		Therefore purple is the color for the seasons of Advent and Lent, which celebrate the coming of the King.
		White is the color for funerals, since it is the color of the Resurrection, for weddings, regardless of the season, and for secular holidays that are observed in the church.
	www.kencollins.com /glossary/Liturgy.htm (3046 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Articles: Colors, Vessels and Vestments
		The color of budding and living vegetation, it is the symbol of hope.
		This color is permitted, in place of purple, on the third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete) and on the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare), when the Church tempers the sadness of the penitential seasons with an invitation to rejoice in the goodness of God our Saviour.
		A flat, square container of cloth, the same color as the vestments, in which the corporal is carried to and from he altar.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980101/ARTICLES/CLR_VSLS.HTM (945 words)

	Notebook
		The color of a transparent object is determined by the wavelength of the light transmitted by it.
		A well-known use of the symbolism of color is in the liturgical colors of the Western Church, according to which the color of the vestments varies through the ecclesiastical calendar; e.g., purple (i.e., violet) is the color of Advent and Lent; white, of Easter; and red, of the feasts of the martyrs.
		Color here is used in its broad sense, comprising not only all the hues of the spectrum but also the neutrals [fl, white, and all the intermediate grays], and also all their tonal and chromatic variations.
	www.noteaccess.com /ELEMENTS/Color.htm (1400 words)

	liturgical year - Articles about liturgical year
		THOUGH LITURGICAL colors for vestments, altars and pulpits are traditional, their color spectrum is not tamper-proof.
		The state of liturgical dance in the Catholic church is in suspension.
		The mid twentieth century was an important period of theological and liturgical change for mainline Protestants.
	www.wordiq.com /article/liturgical+year.html (313 words)

	Liturgical Colors and Special Sundays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Advent wreath with four candles, which appropriately match the color your church is using on the four Sundays in Advent, strengthens the anticipation.
		No colors, flowers, or decorative materials should be used on Good Friday except, perhaps, representations of the way of the cross; the chancel should be bare of cloth, candles, or anything else not actually used in the service.
		Bolts of brightly colored cloth may be slit lengthwise and hung across the church, flowers may be used in profusion.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /flinthillumc-va/Liturgical%20Colors.htm (1116 words)

	Being Lutheran
		The use of varying colors to symbolize the different seasons and festivals of the Church year for vestments and other liturgical objects is first found in Church orders at Jerusalem in the 12th Century.
		This color is symbolic of hope and is the preferred color for Advent.
		Symbolic of victory, joy and purity this color is used for the seasons of Christmass, Epiphany, and Easter; all feasts of our Lord; for Trinity Sunday; for all feasts of Mary, of the angels, and of all saints who were not martyrs; and (on our calendar) of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession.
	www.egrace.org /being_lutheran.htm (2114 words)

	Liturgical Colors - St Isidore Church
		The colors used by the Roman Catholic Church serve to adorn the worship space and are used to signify certain times of the year, season, or a feast day or festival being celebrated.
		It is used during the penitential seasons of Advent, Septuagesima and Lent, and on fast days and vigils.
		Green - the color of budding and living vegetation, is the symbol of hope.
	www.saintisidore.org /religious-info/liturg-colors.htm (257 words)

	Liturgical Colors used at St. Paul's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As dominating colors in nature change with the seasons of the fourfold year, so in the Church Year there is a structured change in the colors of the Eucharistic vestments, the liturgical colors.
		This sequence of liturgical colors has a principal role in Christian visual education, in teaching the Gospel through the eye.
		This is the liturgical calendar used at St. Paul's Episcopal, Grand Rapids.
	stpauls.charleshart.net /colors.php (279 words)

	Catholic Question & Answer
		Seminarians are given a liturgical foundation for their spiritual lives, an understanding of Church history and theology, and an opportunity to contemplate and celebrate the sacred mysteries of the Church.
		mitra, "turban") The liturgical headdress worn by bishops, abbots, cardinals, and the pope.
		A liturgical book comprised of the prayers and directives for Mass, and various sacramental formulas; it does not include the Scripture readings for the Mass, which are collected in the lectionary.
	www.dioceseofcleveland.org /communications/qanda.htm (10371 words)

	Liturgical Colors
		Green is the color of plants and a symbol of new life — it is used on Palm Sunday and throughout the feast of the Holy Trinity (until its end).
		It is the color of the sky, and it conforms to the teaching about the Mother of God, who held the Resident of the Heavens in Her Most Pure Body.
		It is the symbol of renunciation from worldly strife, it is the color of repentance and strictness to oneself.
	www.orthodoxphotos.com /readings/beginning2/colors.shtml (390 words)

	Liturgical Colors used at St. Paul's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Liturgical calendars vary from denomination to denomination, and with individual congregations.
		Explanations of the colors and their meanings follow at the end of the calendar.
		, the color of fire and of blood, is used on Pentecost; optionally on Palm Sunday and Good Friday; feasts and Votives of the Passion of our Lord and of the birthday feasts of the Apostles and Evangelists; feasts and votives of the Martyrs; Votives of the Holy Spirit; Ritual for Ordination and for Confirmation.
	gbgmchurches.gbgm-umc.org /galvafirst/liturgical_color_Calendar.htm (338 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Liturgical Colours
		By a law of her liturgy the Church directs that the vestments worn by her sacred ministers, and the drapery used in the decoration of the altar should correspond in colour to that which is prescribed for the Office of the day.
		The colours thus sanctioned by the Church in connection with her public worship are called the liturgical colours.
		The variety of liturgical colours in the Church arose from the mystical meaning attached to them.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04134a.htm (762 words)

	Spirituality and Worship: Lectionary Notes for SAMUEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Lutheran churches that emerged from the Reformation retained the traditional colors but they disappeared entirely (along with most other ritual) from the worship of the Reformed churches.
		During the 20th century, the ecumenical Liturgical Movement prompted the rediscovery of ancient Christian ritual, including the traditional colors of the Western church.
		White or Gold is the color for All Saints Day on November 1 and is also an alternative to Green on the last Sunday after Pentecost, which celebrates the Reign of Christ.
	www.ucc.org /worship/samuel/litnotes.htm (1470 words)

	Fr. William Saunders
		The purpose of utilizing different colors for vestments is twofold: first, the colors highlight the particular liturgical season and the faithful's journey through these seasons.
		Second, the colors punctuate the liturgical season by highlighting a particular event or particular mystery of faith.
		White or gold, a color symbolizing rejoicing and purity of soul, is worn during the liturgical seasons of Christmas and Easter.
	www.ewtn.com /library/ANSWERS/LITCOLOR.HTM (683 words)

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