What are the colors of the church seasons?
Catholic Liturgical Colors
- Green. Green is the standard color for “Ordinary Time,” the stretches of time between Easter and Christmas, and vice versa.
- Purple. Worn during Lent or the Advent, purple represents penance, preparation, and sacrifice.
- Rose.
- Red.
- Blue.
- White or Gold.
- Black.
What are Communion colors?
For First Holy Communion, white and gold are the most popular colors for gifts. White symbolizes purity, innocence, joy and virtue. Visitors who attend a First Holy Communion service will notice the girls in white dresses with veils, symbolizing their purity. Silver can sometimes be used as an alternative to white.
What liturgical color symbolizes hope?
Blue signifies the blue skies or the life-giving air and often signifies hope or good health. It is an alternate color for the season of Advent. Purity, virginity, innocence, and birth, are symbolized with this color. White is the liturgical color of Christmas and Easter.
What color cloth do you put on the cross?
purple cloth
The purple cloth drape is the symbolic color of royalty and is placed on the cross on Palm Sunday, the day Jesus Christ entered Jerusalem as a king riding a donkey.
What is the Easter color?
White and Gold (The Colors of Easter Day)
Why do we use red and green altar cloths?
During Holy Week it represents the blood of Christ. Red is also used for ordinations, church anniversaries and civil observances such as Memorial Day and Thanksgiving. Green represents growth and is used during Ordinary Time (the season after Epiphany and the season after Pentecost.)
What kind of linens are used for the altar?
Baptismal towels are often given to the parents as keepsakes. Fair linens are custom-made mass liturgical linens that cover the main altar and are embroidered with five crosses, one in each corner of the mensa and a centered embroidery.
When do you blessed a new altar cloth?
A suitable way of underlining the return to use is with a new set of liturgical objects, such as a new altar cloth and other linens. These may be blessed at the beginning of Mass using the appropriate rites and formulas described in the Book of Blessings.
What do the crosses on the Catholic altar mean?
Fair linens are custom-made mass liturgical linens that cover the main altar and are embroidered with five crosses, one in each corner of the mensa and a centered embroidery. The five crosses on the fair linen are meant to depict the five wounds of Christ.