Should I cover the cross?

[Caesar]

Should I cover my crucifixes with purple cloth when this is done in church over Passiontide? And if I dont have purple specificaly, is there another color I may use?

 

[maria_rose]

I have covered up my crucifixes over Holy Thursday, GoodFriday into Holy saturday. I think being united with what is tradition in church is godd and right.
Our Lord rested in his tomb during that period and we are remembering it with sadness, love and sincerity.
God bless you for you deep faith.
Ilona

 

[Kevin42]

I had always done it throughout Lent, but this year I discovered that the Church only does it Holy Thursday - Holy Saturday. Nonetheless, I will definately be removing my crucifixes and replacing them with a cross that has a purple ribbon, or the crosses I made out of the palms I have saved from last years Palm Sunday mass.

 

[CathMass]

I use disposable plastic purple tablecloths that I cut up use to cover some images and crucifixes. I don’t cover every crucifix though.I usually don’t cover the ones in my living room and family room because it just doesn’t look right.
With regard to the many image and crosses I do cover, I uncover some of them at the Gloria of the EWTN broadcasted Papal Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday and the rest after I go to the Easter Vigil. If I don’t go to the Vigil then I just uncover them at the Vatican’s Gloria.

 

[Caesar]

I had always done it throughout Lent, but this year I discovered that the Church only does it Holy Thursday - Holy Saturday. Nonetheless, I will definately be removing my crucifixes and replacing them with a cross that has a purple ribbon, or the crosses I made out of the palms I have saved from last years Palm Sunday mass.

A bit of information- in the old Sarum Rite (a medieval liturgical Rite in England, very similar to the Classical Roman Rite) crucifixes would be covered throughout Lent

 

[Kevin42]

Ah…so I suppose my Church hasn’t been doing it completly wrong all these years then? Now if only I can get them to get the holy water back… .

 

[Cradle]

My parish covered them this Sunday…

And yeah, I was wondering whether I should cover the crucifix I have beside my bed. Decided against it, though…

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I use disposable plastic purple tablecloths that I cut up use to cover some images and crucifixes. I don’t cover every crucifix though.I usually don’t cover the ones in my living room and family room because it just doesn’t look right.
With regard to the many image and crosses I do cover, I uncover some of them at the Gloria of the EWTN broadcasted Papal Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday and the rest after I go to the Easter Vigil. If I don’t go to the Vigil then I just uncover them at the Vatican’s Gloria.

That sort of defeats the purpose? The idea is to cover the Crucifixes and statues that are in open public (livingroom, family room) areas not the ones in private areas.

 

[blessedstar]

I could not face Lent unless I could somewhere, someplace view the Cross, meditate upon it and cling to it.

I understand why they are covered in Church, but in the privacy of my home I don’t cover the Crucifix and I have not seen this done in any Catholic home I visit.

Whenever I go to Mass the first thing I look for is the Altar Server carrying the Crucifix high in procession around the Church, I always look up from my hymn book to see it and am always strengthened by it.

Personally for me, Lent is a time to hold the Cross high, symbolically and in my life.

 

[CathMass]

That sort of defeats the purpose? The idea is to cover the Crucifixes and statues that are in open public (livingroom, family room) areas not the ones in private areas.

I should have mentioned, the images covered are primarily in my personal prayer room since that is the place I try to make follow seasonal customs (like no flowers during Lent and Advent). I only covered the cross and the Two Hearts image im my room as a symbolic gesture.