Blue vestments for Marian feasts?

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Blue is not a liturgical color at all. So, no, it is not OK to use a blue vestment.

The color of a feast day is either white or gold. The color prescribed in the liturgical books is to be worn.

What IS allowed is a white or gold vestment with embroidery, piping, an image, etc, that is blue or Marian.
 
Yes if you google “Marian vestment” and look af images I see maybe 2 or 3 that are fully blue and therefore not within the rubrics.

Most are gold or white with blue adornment.
 
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I had always thought this was okay, although I have never seen it (The only Marian vestments I have seen are white with blue trim/accents), but is it okay to use primarily blue vestments for Marian feasts? I base this question off of point 1 of this article…

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In the Latin Church, blue vestments are allowed in certain countries (on particular Marian feast days) and certain at Marian shrines which have the privilege.

Blue vestments are permitted in the Byzantine Rite and are commonly worn on Marian feasts, though not restricted to those days.


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Where is that picture of Benedict from? I am suprised to see him wearing vestments in that style…
 
Perhaps NOT in the RUBICS, BUT at least its intended to be a pious practice, AND Church practices ARE changeable.

Our Church HAs REAL problems, so I’d personally not be concerned about this matter

GBY
 
to say I am concerned about this would be an overstatement … I was simply curious about a custom of our church …
 
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Where is that picture of Benedict from? I am suprised to see him wearing vestments in that style…
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Not exactly his usual style. Must have been early in his Pontificate, before he had his own people in place. The source where I got the picture said it was in Austria, so I’m not sure how it fits into the rather convoluted exceptions.
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1ke said:
Blue is not a liturgical color at all. So, no, it is not OK to use a blue vestment.

The color of a feast day is either white or gold. The color prescribed in the liturgical books is to be worn.

What IS allowed is a white or gold vestment with embroidery, piping, an image, etc, that is blue or Marian.
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As stated, this is not correct.

One should NEVER make categorical statements of this sort on an international website.

First one MUST specify that the sui juris Churches of the East have their own proper discipline. That is point one.

Point two is that with the Occidental Church, there are various provisions for the use of blue, by way of privilege – and one must always keep in mind that peoples from all over the world visit this website…not merely people of the United States… My colleague, Father McNamara, well explains this matter in the following article:

http://www.ewtn.com/library/liturgy/zlitur315.htm

Finally, normative liturgical colours are white, green, violet, rose, red, and black. However, one may make use of, for example, vestments that are more precious to celebrate significant occasions – such as vestments in gold or silver. This is a fundamental premise in liturgical law.
 
i’ve seen blue vestments at Marian feast day masses & i like them very much
 
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babochka said:
Not exactly his usual style. Must have been early in his Pontificate, before he had his own people in place. The source where I got the picture said it was in Austria, so I’m not sure how it fits into the rather convoluted exceptions.
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I remember this very vividly. It was at the end of 2007, at the Shrine of Mariazel in Austria, which had been accorded the use of blue vestments.
 
That’s considered to be a shade of white.

It cannot be too brown, but shades of off-white are likewise permitted under the general description of “white.” It need not be a pure “eggshell” white.

The Church prescribes the liturgical colors, but does not get into the specifics of defining the colors themselves beyond the common use of the words.

Red can be crimson, burgundy, maroon, ruby, firetruck, etc.etc. (whatever color name the dyer chooses to apply).

Greens can come in many different shades.

You get the idea, I’m sure.
 
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The Church prescribes the liturgical colors, but does not get into the specifics of defining the colors themselves beyond the common use of the words.
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Indeed. I remember one chasuble in our collection that was technically a white chasuble, even by the estimation of a rigourous diocesan Ordinary – but the orphrey was so broad in all its dimensions that one would be hard-pressed to say that the colour most in evidence was, in fact , anything but blue. However, it was deemed to be a white chasuble with blue ornamentation…and indeed, since the blue was an orphrey, one had in the end to say that the chasuble, as such, was white.
 
That’s what I was thinking… it looks like highlighter spilled on blue vestments
 
Well, was replying to the OP and his linked article, which is an American publication talking about American parishes in the Latin Rite. Not Eastern Catholics, not Orders, etc.

So I don’t feel bad in the least for replying with the rubrics and liturgical rules for US parishes. Catholic Answers, while attracting an international audience, is a US-based company and website and most of their “answers” on their radio program and website are Latin Rite, US centric answers- such as holy days of obligation, liturgical rubrics, etc.

Thank you for listing out some of the exceptions and norms to be found elsewhere.
 
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Blue vestments for Marian feasts (in the Roman Rite) is a privilege granted to certain places:
  1. It is granted to some important Marian shrines.
  2. Blue is the approved liturgical color for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in Spanish churches and in countries that were once under the Spanish Crown (e.g.: The Philippines, Mexico)
That is why, during December 8, priests wear blue or white chasubles here in the Philippines.
 
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