The Color of Ordinary Time

Liturgical colours

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  • LITURGICAL COLOURS AND SEASONS
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    • Silver Because of its brightness, metallic silver is sometimes used as an alternate color for white.

    Bright Blue

    Gold Gold symbolizes what is precious and valuable, and so symbolizes majesty, joy, and celebration. Because of its brightness metallic gold also symbolizes the presence of God. It is most often used with white for high Holy Days and festival days of the Church Year , especially the seasons of Christmas and Easter.

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    It is also sometimes used as a secondary color for other seasons. Yellow Yellow symbolizes light which in turn is a symbol of the presence of God.

    It is also symbolic of renewal and hope, especially in the resurrection of Jesus. It is often used as an alternate color for gold when white is used as a sanctuary color.

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    It is sometimes used with white for Easter. Green Green symbolizes the renewal of vegetation and generally of living things and the promise of new life.

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    Purple Purple can symbolize pain, suffering, and therefore mourning and penitence. It is the liturgical color for the Season of Lent. It is also the color of royalty, so traditionally has also been used for Advent and is still used in Catholic churches, although Blue Violet is also used.

    However, Blue is replacing purple for Advent in many Protestant churches. Vestments of purple or violet are used during the seasons of Advent and Lent. The colour reminds us of the violet flower that bows its head and is a symbol of humility.

    LITURGICAL COLOURS AND SEASONS

    Lent is the season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. It is a quiet season of reflection. The colour of Advent is more of a rose-purple, like the sky just before sunrise. This is the time of year when the Church waits in joyful hope to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the light of the world.

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    Purple or violet dye was very expensive. An early Christian, Lydia from Thyatira, made her living from the purple dye trade and was able to support St Paul in his missionary work Acts Green is a sign of life in nature and as such it represents growth, life and hope. Green is the colour worn most often during liturgies in Ordinary Time.

    It symbolises the graces that draw people into the life of God. The most often used alternate colors for Ordinary Time are bronze or copper, olive, and aqua with maroon showing up occasionally.

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    Other traditions observe a Pentecost Season extending for the eleven to sixteen Sundays depending on the date of Easter beginning with Pentecost Sunday and running through the next to last Sunday of August. Then beginning with the last Sunday of August, they count the remaining thirteen or fourteen Sundays until the beginning of Advent as Kingdomtide in the Methodist tradition or Dominiontide in other churches , climaxing with the Christ the King Sunday. This serves to break up the long stretch of Ordinary Time following Pentecost into two seasons that can carry different emphases.

    The season of Pentecost usually focuses on the evangelical mission of the church to the world and its responsibility in carrying out that mission of proclamation.

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    That emphasis often extends into Ordinary Time. These are becoming increasingly popular ways to flesh out the themes of the Church in the World during Ordinary Time by focusing on heritage and the faithfulness of those in the past.

    The season of Kingdomtide celebrates Christ as King and Sovereign of the world, emphasizing God's Dominion over all of creation. The focus in this season is often on social justice and action as an expression of the Lordship of God over his people and the world. Daily Scripture Readings Lectionary.