Good Friday Vestments (2018)

[semper_catholicus]

I’m pretty sure White should not be worn at all.

In the ordinary form, Red vestments are supposed to be worn.

In the extraordinary form, the liturgical colour is Black.

I attended an ordinary form liturgy, so the priest wore Red. (personally, I prefer Black vestments as well, although they aren’t worn in the ordinary form.)

 

[Spyridon]

although they aren’t worn in the ordinary form.)

They aren’t typically in the OF, but they can be - they aren’t proscribed.

 

[1ke]

My priest didn’t wear any vestments at all, just an alb with a red stole (it might have been red. I’m not sure, I was tired)

A red chasuble is prescribed in the rubrics.

 

[twf]

Red. I have never seen any other vestment colour for Good Friday.

 

[FrDavid96]

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[LoyalViews]

LOVE this.

 

[FrDavid96]

I’m pretty sure White should not be worn at all.

In the ordinary form, Red vestments are supposed to be worn.

In the extraordinary form, the liturgical colour is Black.

I attended an ordinary form liturgy, so the priest wore Red. (personally, I prefer Black vestments as well, although they aren’t worn in the ordinary form.)

I checked the 1962 Missal.

In the Extraordinary Form, the color is black for most of Good Friday. Before beginning the 4th part, (ie after the Reproaches) which is Holy Communion, the clergy switch to violet vestments.

So the proper colors for Good Friday in the OF is actually both black and violet.

However, my 1944 printing of the Roman Missal (which is not the same as the Ordinary Form in-use today) calls for black vestments, but has no rubric to change to any other color for the 4th part–at least none that I could find. Some changes were made in the 1950s, but I don’t have a Missal from that time period of post-1944 but per-1962.

I think (not certain, though) that red might have been used instead of violet in the early 20th century, and perhaps earlier than that.

Edit: I do have a small Missal from the 1950’s but it’s not at my desk at the moment. I can check it later if anyone has interest.

 

[semper_catholicus]

I meant on Good Friday.

 

[semper_catholicus]

Right. I remember seeing pictures of that.

 

[casslean]

Red. Quite a number of us serving in ministries during the Mass wore red as well, though it wasn’t planned.

 

[dochawk]

Byzantine - Red, though any dark color is acceptable. Black, purple, red. I’ve even seen navy blue.

Our EC Byzantine priest has black that he wears for both Good Friday services, and then puts away until next year.

Hmm, I want to say that last year, when it landed on Annunciation, he started in blue (still used in the East), and switched to black when the blue was removed from the Holy Table.

hawk

 

[UpUpAndAway]

Black (EF liturgy). He may have switched to violet after the Reproaches. I honestly didn’t notice, as I was exhausted…

 

[babochka]

babochka:

Byzantine - Red, though any dark color is acceptable. Black, purple, red. I’ve even seen navy blue.

Our EC Byzantine priest has black that he wears for both Good Friday services, and then puts away until next year.

Hmm, I want to say that last year, when it landed on Annunciation, he started in blue (still used in the East), and switched to black when the blue was removed from the Holy Table.

hawk

The typicon said that it was Annunciation until noon, then it was Good Friday. A problem that will never exist in the West.

 

[rondirect]

Regardless of what was done in the past, today, as I know it, Red is the color used for Ordinary Form Passion Liturgies: Palm Sunday and Good Friday, on days honoring saints and martyrs who shed blood for the faith, and on Pentecost (fire). Personally glad that black is not worn; it is not celebratory in any way. Even on PS and GF, we are celebrating what Jesus has done for us, “even death on a cross,” shedding his blood for us sinners.

 

[Isca]

Red here in the UK.

 

[dochawk]

The typicon said that it was Annunciation until noon, then it was Good Friday. A problem that will never exist in the West.

However, adapting that to parish use takes a bit of doing. I suppose we could start services at 11:30 . . .

But it won’t happen again in either of our lifetimes. Possibly in your children’s lifetimes, near the end, but not for mine, either.

hawk

 

[dochawk]

Personally glad that black is not worn; it is not celebratory in any way.

Gosh, one day a year that we emphasize Good Friday in the East, and . . .

More seriously, as an overgeneralization, the West is further to the Good Friday side for general emphasis than the East, and the East more on the Resurrection than the West. So course we go all out on the Good Friday side on good Friday itself

(as some have noted, Byzantine Liturgy isn’t done until it’s overdone . . . )

hawk

 

[OrthodoxSquid]

Red, with black trim - some of the most beautiful vestments I’ve ever seen.rondirect, it’s not supposed to be a celebration. It’s a day of deep mourning, though there is great joy in mourning, just as there is joy in the
Resurrection of Christ.

 

[rondirect]

Good Friday is not a day that we should think of mourning; it was meant to be, it is “good.” It was God’s plan all along. It wasn’t a mistake. So, as you say, there is great joy in mourning; joy is celebratory by definition. We, as Christians, should therefore celebrate that Jesus suffered and died for us. If, as you say, equate joy in mourning and joy in the resurrection, is not the resurrection a celebration?

Per the wording in the ORDO for Friday of the Passion of the Lord: “CELEBRATION” of the Lord’s Passion.

From the USCCB site: The Roman Missal and the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday…as the title to the guidelines for Good Friday.

 

[OldCAFMember]

semper_catholicus:

I’m pretty sure White should not be worn at all.

In the ordinary form, Red vestments are supposed to be worn.

In the extraordinary form, the liturgical colour is Black.

I attended an ordinary form liturgy, so the priest wore Red. (personally, I prefer Black vestments as well, although they aren’t worn in the ordinary form.)

I checked the 1962 Missal.

In the Extraordinary Form, the color is black for most of Good Friday. Before beginning the 4th part, (ie after the Reproaches) which is Holy Communion, the clergy switch to violet vestments.

So the proper colors for Good Friday in the OF is actually both black and violet.

However, my 1944 printing of the Roman Missal (which is not the same as the Ordinary Form in-use today) calls for black vestments, but has no rubric to change to any other color for the 4th part–at least none that I could find. Some changes were made in the 1950s, but I don’t have a Missal from that time period of post-1944 but per-1962.

I think (not certain, though) that red might have been used instead of violet in the early 20th century, and perhaps earlier than that.

Edit: I do have a small Missal from the 1950’s but it’s not at my desk at the moment. I can check it later if anyone has interest.

Black was exclusively used for Goid Friday prior to 1955. At that time the reforms mandated a change to violet for communion. Beginning in 1970 red was used. Extraordinary Form communities who use the 1962 Missal use the black/violet rubrics of 1955.