Gaudete Sunday and Laetare Sunday

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I’m confused as to why the priest wears rose on these two days surrounded by violet on the other Sundays.

Why half way through Lent is there rejoicing, why not at Easter?

Why half way though Advent is there rejoicing, why not at Christmas?

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Perhaps it is not rejoicing but hope, like the color of the sky just before the sun rises (or the Son).
 
Perhaps the priest’s purple vestments are sent to the cleaners those weeks?
 
It’s like being on a road trip and you see the exit sign for your destination and breath that huge sign of relief.

You’re not there but you’re certainly really close
 
Priest’s vestments rarely get truly dirty unless something happens.
Practically speaking, that’s the whole point of the alb and amice.
My priest dry cleans his green vestments once a year (usually during Lent) and his violet/pink/white once every two years (during Ordinary Time)
 
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Perhaps it is not rejoicing but hope
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Excuse me, I see that gaudete and laetare mean rejoice (or words to that effect). I guess we rejoice in anticipation, like Maximilian75 wrote two posts above.
 
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At my parish, the priest doesn’t wear rose vestments on those days. We don’t have a rose set.
 
Nelka said:
I’m confused as to why the priest wears rose on these two days surrounded by violet on the other Sundays.
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On Laetare and Gaudete he wears rose because it signifies rejoicing since Christmas and Easter are almost here.
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Why half way through Lent is there rejoicing, why not at Easter?

Why half way though Advent is there rejoicing, why not at Christmas?
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Because White is set aside for those days, and you need a short break from the penance of Lent and Advent.
 
This is only one example of the disconnect due to the current way the Mass is popularly practiced, with choirs using popular “Entrance Songs” instead of what the Church has primarily prescribed. The Introit should have provided a lot of this information. It’s not the fault of the Novus Ordo itself, but is rather due to a lack of appreciation of the value of the texts themselves, such that planners have tried to make the Mass more “popular.” But if only the Introits were chanted again, even after the “Entrance Song”:

Gaudete Sunday of Advent:
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your forbearance be known to all, for the Lord is near at hand; have no anxiety about anything, but in all things, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God. Lord, you have blessed your land; you have turned away the captivity of Jacob.

Laetare Sunday of Lent:
Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult and be filled from the breasts of your consolation. Psalm: I rejoiced when they said to me: 'we shall go into God’s House.

Just reading the Introits would tell you the themes of the Masses, and why there is a “break” in the middle of Advent and Lent.
 
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