Good Friday, Holy Father

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I watched a repeat broadcast of the Good Friday lirturgy on EWTN last night. The reason I put this in Litugy is I would like to know what vestment the Holy Father wore.

It was red and simular to the deacons dalmatics but without sleeves or covering the arms at all.

Not to be irreverent but it looked like a red “sandwitch board?”

What was it, I’ve never seen it before.

Is it a pre-vatican 2 vestment, perhaps from the EF? I’ve never seen an EF mass before and converted in 1975.
 
Are you able to post a link? Because I’m not sure what you mean. (And, I, personally don’t know how to post a link - so I am not being critical.)
 
I think what you are talking about is a fiddleback chasable.
 
andrewstx said:
I watched a repeat broadcast of the Good Friday lirturgy on EWTN last night. The reason I put this in Litugy is I would like to know what vestment the Holy Father wore.

It was red and simular to the deacons dalmatics but without sleeves or covering the arms at all.

Not to be irreverent but it looked like a red “sandwitch board?”

What was it, I’ve never seen it before.

Is it a pre-vatican 2 vestment, perhaps from the EF? I’ve never seen an EF mass before and converted in 1975.
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No, this particular one is new, although it may or may not have been refashioned from the awful sack-like chasuble he wore at Pentecost four or five years ago. The fabric is the same, but this one fits much better that the other one. In any case, the sandwich-board style is what is called a “Roman” or “fiddleback” chasuble (in contrast to the fuller-cut Gothic chasubles you are no doubt used to seeing.
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That could be it the back was kind of violin shaped at that. I have never seen it before. Is it something used in the EF?
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Not specifically; it is just a different cut. It was in vogue prior to Vatican II, so often you will see it worn at EF Masses to complete the retro effect. The Gothic, Borromean, and conical cuts of chasubles are all perfectly licit too (you can just Google them for more info). The fiddleback style simply developed in the baroque era as the weight and expense of very heavily brocaded chasubles became too much to justify using any more than the minimum cut necessary.
 
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