Liturgical color?

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Today at Mass, the music was much better than usual. I have gotten accustomed to, oi not really reconciled to, seeing the celebrant, serviers, and anyone else in the sactuary holding hands 😛 , and watching a herd of women move forward ae EMs to carry the brandy snifters of the Precious Blood to the Faithful.

But today, the First Sunday in Advent, I saw something new: The pastor-celebrant was wearing a flowing battleship grey chausible, over which he wore a wide purple stole decorated with candelabra.
The Deacon was wearing violet vestments, and incidentally, delivered an excellent seasonal homily.

When did grey become a liturgical color?:confused:
 
mystified said:
If this should be on another thread, I trust the admin, to move it.
Today at Mass, the music was much better than usual. I have gotten accustomed to, oi not really reconciled to, seeing the celebrant, serviers, and anyone else in the sactuary holding hands 😛 , and watching a herd of women move forward ae EMs to carry the brandy snifters of the Precious Blood to the Faithful.

But today, the First Sunday in Advent, I saw something new: The pastor-celebrant was wearing a flowing battleship grey chausible, over which he wore a wide purple stole decorated with candelabra.
The Deacon was wearing violet vestments, and incidentally, delivered an excellent seasonal homily.

When did grey become a liturgical color?:confused:
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It isn’t.

Sadly enough, that seems to be a minor problem given the other things you’ve described (except for the homily).
 
mystified said:
If this should be on another thread, I trust the admin, to move it.
Today at Mass, the music was much better than usual. I have gotten accustomed to, oi not really reconciled to, seeing the celebrant, serviers, and anyone else in the sactuary holding hands 😛 , and watching a herd of women move forward ae EMs to carry the brandy snifters of the Precious Blood to the Faithful.

But today, the First Sunday in Advent, I saw something new: The pastor-celebrant was wearing a flowing battleship grey chausible, over which he wore a wide purple stole decorated with candelabra.
The Deacon was wearing violet vestments, and incidentally, delivered an excellent seasonal homily.

When did grey become a liturgical color?:confused:
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Is it possible that it was a Benedictine vestment with a stole on top?
 
Joe_Kelley said:
We use it for funerals - a compromise between black and white I guess. Haven’t seen it for Advent.
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Gray is not a liturgical color. According to the GIRM, these are the colors:
  1. As to the color of sacred vestments, the traditional usage is to be retained: namely,
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White is used in the Offices and Masses during the Easter and Christmas seasons; also on celebrations of the Lord other than of his Passion, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of the Holy Angels, and of Saints who were not Martyrs; on the Solemnities of All Saints (1 November) and of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June); and on the Feasts of Saint John the Evangelist (27 December), of the Chair of Saint Peter (22 February), and of the Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January).
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Red is used on Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion and on Good Friday, on Pentecost Sunday, on celebrations of the Lord’s Passion, on the feasts of the Apostles and Evangelists, and on celebrations of Martyr Saints.
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Green is used in the Offices and Masses of Ordinary Time.
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Violet or purple is used in Advent and of Lent. It may also be worn in Offices and Masses for the Dead (cf. below).
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Besides violet, white or black vestments may be worn at funeral services and at other Offices and Masses for the Dead in the Dioceses of the United States of America.
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Rose may be used, where it is the practice, on Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent) and on Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent).
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On more solemn days, sacred vestments may be used that are festive, that is, more precious, even if not of the color of the day.
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Gold or silver colored vestments may be worn on more solemn occasions in the dioceses of the United States of America.
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Did the gray look more like silver? Even at that, it probably should not have been used because of the penitential nature of the season. Furthermore, the stole is not to be worn out; it is worn under the chasuble.
 
I have seen grey stoles before, mostly in storage. From what I can gather, they were popular back in the 60’s and 70’s (like a lot of other things 😃 )

In Carmel,

Br. Allen
 
No, it was definitely GREY.
When was silver a liturgical color? I’ve seen non-Catholic ministers wear various non-liturgical colors, orange, yellow, blue, but never silver or grey.
This was not anything like I’ve seen in monastic settings either. At least not Benedictines. Canons Regular, Redemptorists or Franciscans, realizing that the latter four are probably technically not monks.
 
mystified said:
No, it was definitely GREY.
When was silver a liturgical color? I’ve seen non-Catholic ministers wear various non-liturgical colors, orange, yellow, blue, but never silver or grey.
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Silver is, liturgically, white. Has been for centuries. oxidized silver tends to turn gray. It’s not been common for centuries.

In heraldry, as well, white and silver are synonymous.

Holy Family Cathedral had some old fiddlebacks in silver-cloth, with warp of white silk, with white orphrey. Filed in the drawers for white.
 
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