Sorry, I can't help it.... Gotta ask

[SMHW]

The Celebrant is not obligated to wear Rose vestments.

However, for the first time in my life, I attended a Mass this weekend where he did. It was … different.

I love it when the clergy wear rose on Gaudete and Laetare Sundays. But I confess it’s not for reason of Liturgical tradition. It’s more because I find it amusing. The priests seem to be compelled to explain the color they are wearing (even if they *don’t *wear rose.) Priests will sometimes mention the Liturgical color of the season but they don’t usually make it personal.

Can I ask why you say it was “different”? If you prefer you can answer by private message.

 

[AngelRose81]

So did your priest wear rose for Laetare Sunday?

Ours did. (Although his chasuble is the strangest shade of rose.) Our deacon wore a very pink stole.

Our priest said he wore violet for the previous Mass and the “Liturgical police” descended on him after Mass and said he should have been wearing rose! So he did for the next Mass.

We don’t have rose vestments, but the priest made sure to emphasize that it was Laetare Sunday in the homily as well as in his bulletin comments. So no “Liturgical Police” got him for it!

I do wish we had rose vestments though. DH watched the Papal Mass on EWTN and he said that Pope Benedict looked awesome. So he liked the rose! And he isn’t even Catholic …yet (I’m still workin’ on him!)

 

[Diaconia]

Our parish doesn’t have rose vestments. Evidently, one of the pastors between our current pastor (who would probably wear a rose chasuble if he had one) and the pastor who was at the church when I was growing up (who wore the rose chasuble in the late 70s) tossed the rose vestments.

I am tempted to buy and donate a rose chasuble for the parish. I’ve seen them on ebay for a reasonable price.

Has anyone donated vestments to their parish? Any advice?

What I would like to do is buy them and have them delivered to the church as being from an anonymous donor.

It’s a shame that a previous pastor discarded the vestment. In most cases, the vestments are the property of the parish, and not the priest, anyway.

We have chasubles and matching dalmatics in every liturgical color, including rose. I would guess that most parishes have *someone *within the parish who would happily buy a vestment, knowing that it would be used for sacred purposes.

Each time we need new or additional vestments at our parish; I simply put a note in the bulletin, or announce after Mass that the parish needs a white dalmatic or a set of red vestments or whatever, and ask if anyone would like to memorialize a loved one by donating the sacred vesture. It always works, always.

And, by the way, when someone told us before Mass that we looked “pretty in pink,” the priest smiled and simply said, “no, we look ‘radiant in rose.’”

God bless,

 

[juno24]

Yes. Father wore a shade often called “Old Rose” . It is a darker shade of rose (picture dried roses, which have dusky semi-purplish look). It is a very nice shade, and much lighter than what he wears on the other Sundays of Lent.

 

[PaulJason]

Ours wore violet, I don’t believe we have purchased rose.

I thought black was also an option?

 

[KathleenElsie]

Yes and then he changed the words of the Gospel to be neutral gender. He eliminated the word man from the Creed. Talked about sports rainbow wigs in the homily.

 

[SenorHorace]

Our parish doesn’t have rose vestments. Evidently, one of the pastors between our current pastor (who would probably wear a rose chasuble if he had one) and the pastor who was at the church when I was growing up (who wore the rose chasuble in the late 70s) tossed the rose vestments.

I am tempted to buy and donate a rose chasuble for the parish. I’ve seen them on ebay for a reasonable price.

Has anyone donated vestments to their parish? Any advice?

What I would like to do is buy them and have them delivered to the church as being from an anonymous donor.

I would print out the info from eBay and ask your pastor is he would like a set and if he would indeed wear them. If he said yes to both then you can happily go purchase a set.

One they arrive drop by your local fine haberdashery. Ask for a suit bag for the chasuble. If they have some with their name printed on them I’m sure they give you one.

On the ID holder of the bag type out a card that says “rose chasuble.” Done.

 

[benedictgal]

Ours wore violet, I don’t believe we have purchased rose.

I thought black was also an option?

No. Black is not an option. It would be an option, under the EF, I believe, for Good Friday and for funerals. My earliest memory of Good Friday was that the celebrant wore black vestments (this was in the 1970s), including the cope.

Another poster asked if white were an option. Again, the answer would be “no”. White (and gold) are colors of gladness and celebration. The only time the celebrant would wear white (or gold) during Lent would be for the Solemnity of St. Joseph (last week) and the Solemnity of the Annunciation (this week). I am not sure of parishes whose patronal feast is St. Patrick would be allowed to use white.

 

[MichiganTrumbul]

Yes, our priests used the rose vestments - and the rose tabernacle veil, too. How many churches still use the tabernacle veil!

MT

 

[kimaz]

Yes he did, he even said they were…PINK! We had a visiting priest from a nearby parish (because our pastor was stuck in Atlanta) and he’s only been ordained for 9 months so perhaps he’s not yet so adverse to wearing pink. Our regular pastor, however, absolutely refuses to call them pink…they are rose, even though they look incredibly pink, and he always wears them on Gaudete Sunday and Laetare Sunday.

 

[CB_Catholic]

No, he didn’t since there are no rose vestments in our parish. Laetare Sunday wasn’t even mentioned.

The previous two pastors categorically stated that they wouldn’t wear them even if they had them. The first just said it to me but the second used his pre-Mass greeting to announced that “you all know what people would think if I wore pink.”

My pastor did wear rose, and as he is a very large man, there was a LOT of rose, which added a large splash of color to the rather bare sanctuary. He certainly got my attention

 

[HappyRevert]

Our priest has the most beautiful rose vestments. I actually think it is quite pretty (or should I say handsome). He does point out carefully that it is ROSE not PINK because some people have told him they like the pink and no male wants to hear that.

 

[RainDown]

My pastor didn’t even try to pass it off as rose. I don’t think he even wanted to try though (he’s very traditional). It was a shiny, glimmery pink. So pink that I was little distracted.

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

My pastor did not wear pink. Real priests, he said, do not wear pink. He wore salmon. I wore a violet stole only because we don’t have a rose…I mean salmon…deacon stole.

 

[Sir_Knight]

Our priest wore rose and even went on to explain why he was wearing “this lovely shade of pink” – he made it very clear that he was uncomfortable in that color.

 

[TraderTif]

Our priest said in the homily that he would have, but our parish doesn’t own any.

Ours did too!! He said he plans to get some though.

 

[Digitonomy]

Sorry, I can’t help it… Gotta ask. Is rose “better” than violet on Gaudete or Laetare Sundays or any other time? The Church certainly doesn’t suggest it is…

You are correct that there doesn’t seem to be any encouragement to go with rose. The GIRM says

d. Violet or purple is used in Advent and of Lent…

f. Rose may be used, where it is the practice, on Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of
Advent) and on Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent).