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MarcusAndreas
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You mean I can’t coordinate ties with the liturgical season anymore?
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The only time I expect to see LOTS of people wearing green is when St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday. …and in that case the people are NOT wearing liturgical colors. :irish3:Perhaps because green suits are still associated with used car salesmen?
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AnnArbor
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Wait, so when you wear liturgical colors, you are “uniting your heart with the mind of the Church”? But middle-aged women who are singing in the choir are “preening” when they do the same?I don’t believe musicians should make a concerted effort to harmonize their attire. It looks incredibly tacky, especially if they’re a bunch of middle-aged women. They appear to be craving attention. Of course, if they’re in a choir-loft at the back of the church where no one will be able to see their preening, it doesn’t much matter.
As a layman who is not active in the sanctuary unless I am taking the Collection, I often wear “liturgical clothing” for the major days. Yesterday, for the transferred Solemnity of the Ascension, I wore a light blue dress shirt and gold tie with my suit. On Pentecost I will wear a white-and-black dress shirt with a plain red tie.
Most men just throw on whatever shirt is closest when they wake up in the morning. I like to unite my heart with the mind of the Church.
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AnnArbor
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petronus
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When I was an altar server way back in the 1950s we had three colours of cassocks .
Red for ordinary use .
Black for funerals .
Purple for Lent and Advent .
There was nothing wrong with that .
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Elizabeth779
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Wellllllllllllll, thank you for your responses – and I do notice these answers are WAY all over the place…but you have given me something to think about. I’ve decided I am not going to color coordinate my music director wardrobe with the liturgical seasons. Occasionally I may way the same color, but I’m not going to plan it that way. And no reason for not doing it, I see now that some do and some don’t, some see people who do in one light and some see people who do in another light…
I was interested what others thought about this and your answers were interesting and enlightening. Thank you.
I was interested what others thought about this and your answers were interesting and enlightening. Thank you.
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27lw
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Well, wait now, is there a liturgical season associated with Nascar? Or the NFL? 
We have a new pastor - - I see in the bulletin, he is asking us to wear red next week for Palm Sunday. Why does this weird me out? I suppose I agree that this seems appropriate for the ordained, but kindergarten-ish when it is for the whole congregation. It’s like some theme day in elementary school, pajama day, crazy hat day, etc.
We have a new pastor - - I see in the bulletin, he is asking us to wear red next week for Palm Sunday. Why does this weird me out? I suppose I agree that this seems appropriate for the ordained, but kindergarten-ish when it is for the whole congregation. It’s like some theme day in elementary school, pajama day, crazy hat day, etc.
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Jennifoo
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I respectfully disagree. I coordinate my wardrobe and chapel veils to coordinate with the Liturgical Season. I don’t do this to show off, but to unite myself more deeply to the Sacred Liturgy. When we consider the truth of the priesthood of the faithful I don’t think it’s anything bad at all. It is my understanding of this truth that the laity are not mere pedestrians at Mass but join in as a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Properly understood, this truth does not detract from, or in any way compete with, the ministerial priesthood.Well, wait now, is there a liturgical season associated with Nascar? Or the NFL?
We have a new pastor - - I see in the bulletin, he is asking us to wear red next week for Palm Sunday. Why does this weird me out? I suppose I agree tha this seems appropriate for the ordained, but kindergarten-ish when it is for the whole congregation. It’s like some theme day in elementary school, pajama day, crazy hat day, etc.
Pax Christi.
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HelenRose
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As an older than middle-aged woman, I find your statement just a bit “tacky”I don’t believe musicians should make a concerted effort to harmonize their attire. It looks incredibly tacky, especially if they’re a bunch of middle-aged women. They appear to be craving attention. Of course, if they’re in a choir-loft at the back of the church where no one will be able to see their preening, it doesn’t much matter.
As a layman who is not active in the sanctuary unless I am taking the Collection, I often wear “liturgical clothing” for the major days. Yesterday, for the transferred Solemnity of the Ascension, I wore a light blue dress shirt and gold tie with my suit. On Pentecost I will wear a white-and-black dress shirt with a plain red tie.
Most men just throw on whatever shirt is closest when they wake up in the morning. I like to unite my heart with the mind of the Church.
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Jennifoo
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Just goes to show that there is still a lot of sexist double standards is existence. Sad.
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