Real Men Wear Pink! Rejoice! Our Lord's Birth is Near!

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It’s Gaudete Sunday. I’m 15 mins early for the Sunday Mass. I’m relatively new to this Parish, as I have only attended a couple of Masses. In the last two masses, there were a lot of incense and chanting. So I was pleasantly surprised the incense was still used and virtually the whole mass was chanted. And even though we cannot officially use the new translation for the Missal yet, the congregation responded with “And with your spirit.” The pink stole was the clincher.

Today’s message is to rejoice and we felt it throughout the Mass. Now to bring the message to others.
 
choliks said:
It’s Gaudete Sunday. I’m 15 mins early for the Sunday Mass. I’m relatively new to this Parish, as I have only attended a couple of Masses. In the last two masses, there were a lot of incense and chanting. So I was pleasantly surprised the incense was still used and virtually the whole mass was chanted. And even though we cannot officially use the new translation for the Missal yet, the congregation responded with “And with your spirit.” The pink stole was the clincher.

Today’s message is to rejoice and we felt it throughout the Mass. Now to bring the message to others.
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“Stole?” He didn’t wear a rose colored chasuble? I prefer the violet anyways…
 
choliks said:
It’s Gaudete Sunday. I’m 15 mins early for the Sunday Mass. I’m relatively new to this Parish, as I have only attended a couple of Masses. In the last two masses, there were a lot of incense and chanting. So I was pleasantly surprised the incense was still used and virtually the whole mass was chanted. And even though we cannot officially use the new translation for the Missal yet, the congregation responded with “And with your spirit.” The pink stole was the clincher.

Today’s message is to rejoice and we felt it throughout the Mass. Now to bring the message to others.
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Thanks. 🙂 As far as I know the new Missal translation has been official since 2 weeks ago, however. What is the date it becomes official where you are?
 
We got so involved in jumbling up the new translation with the old, that the priest forgot to include the Nicene Creed in the mass.:whistle:
 
Even though it’s only a couple of Sundays a year, if I were on the parish finance committee, I’d propose we’d buy a new set of rose colored vestments for the parish priest. The current one is a truly hideous shade of bubblegum pink, and really cheap looking. It looks as if Father took an old bright pink polyester bed sheet, cut a hole in the middle, and stuck his head through that. Yuck!
 
choliks said:
It’s Gaudete Sunday. I’m 15 mins early for the Sunday Mass. I’m relatively new to this Parish, as I have only attended a couple of Masses. In the last two masses, there were a lot of incense and chanting. So I was pleasantly surprised the incense was still used and virtually the whole mass was chanted. And even though we cannot officially use the new translation for the Missal yet, the congregation responded with “And with your spirit.” The pink stole was the clincher.

Today’s message is to rejoice and we felt it throughout the Mass. Now to bring the message to others.
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REAL MEN WEAR ROSE
Pink is another story
 
PrayForMeStJude said:
Yes, and it *looks *better, too!
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Well, that first picture looks more red than the typical rose vestment.

The reaction of parishioners is mixed between amusement and liking it.

Every time someone tells me “Father, you look so good in pink” I wonder if my father ever envisioned the day someone would say that to his son. lol
 
NewEnglandPries said:
Every time someone tells me “Father, you look so good in pink” I wonder if my father ever envisioned the day someone would say that to his son. lol
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I’m always amused when a priest gives his annual explanation of why he is wearing rose. (Semi-annual if he wears rose on Laetare Sunday.) Of course a priest decide *not *to wear rose but it doesn’t let him off the hook because the parishioners (many of whom are wearing pink and rose) will demand an explanation for his failure to wear his rejoicing.
 
I was at my “home parish” (the parish I was raised in) and the priest there wore violet and not rose. Maybe the parish doesn’t have a rose vestment.
 
marleelynn said:
I was at my “home parish” (the parish I was raised in) and the priest there wore violet and not rose. Maybe the parish doesn’t have a rose vestment.
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Or maybe the rose vestments they have are like those described by odile53 in post #6.
 
hm, went to a neighboring parish today and the priest and deacon were wearing violet. I forgot to wear rose/pink! Darn it. Oh well, next year.
 
the priest was wearing a cream colored chasuble. 🙂

pink… rose… the message remains the same… REJOICE! :extrahappy:
 
I find that rose/pink vestments fall into one of two categories: they are either quite beautiful (and the proper color), because they are quite old and from the time before cartoonishly-bad vestments became de rigueur, or they are as #6 mentioned: a bubblegum-pink bedsheet.

Those at my parish fell into the ‘bedsheet’ category; it was unfortunate, because Father has such lovely taste in vestments (being a traditionally-minded priest) and his Advent purples are outstanding, but apparently the only chasuble to be had was the one he wore. It was something like this: slabbinck.be/product/photos/big/1-3978-21.jpg, but without the cross on the chest.

If it had been me, I would have stuck with the Advent purples. Alas, twas not I…
 
Like most all of the liturgical colors, trying to match them when you lose a piece is almost impossible. There are so many varieties of “rose” and “violet” and “greens” that unless you buy a complete set and I mean complete, there is no way to match them.
 
That link you provided actually looked much better than what our priest was wearing. It also had some kind of wine-colored stripe around the neckline. Definitely yuck!
 
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