Were rose vestments worn in your parish this Gaudete Sunday?

[Nechasin]

By our priest own admission, he told us he looked like a pepto bismol bottle because the vestments were the same color as pepto bismol. So I answered Rose in your poll.

 

[Sailka]

By our priest own admission, he told us he looked like a pepto bismol bottle because the vestments were the same color as pepto bismol. So I answered Rose in your poll.

Priests are always truthful.
You were too, in the poll.

 

[BSHoop96]

Rose in our parish. And your note not to call them “pink” reminds me of a priest at a nearby parish one Laetare Sunday, who recounted an exchange from earlier that morning with the pastor:

Priest: But these are PINK.
Pastor: No, they’re ROSE. Wear them.
Priest: I know PINK when I see it. I’m from the MTV generation and these are the same color as the PINK dress in Madonna’s “Material Girl” video.

That’s funny!!!

Yes, we had ROSE (not pink).

 

[twf]

My pastor said that he was wearing a “mitigated purple”…

 

[muffinmojo]

To the new Catholic who posted-yes, the outermost thing the priest wears, which usually looks like a long robe, is a vestment, it is called the chausable. In the modern Roman Rite there are two/three colored vestments(which are liturgical items that priests wear), the chausable, the stole(the strip that goes around his neck) and the cincture, which is a little rope he ties around his waist(but it isn’t the same color as the robe).

Underneath this he wears an alb, a long white robe that covers whatever he is wearing underneath it(usually a black suit with the Roman collar or a cassock).

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

My pastor said that he was wearing a “mitigated purple”…

Another good one!

As you all can see, whether the actual color of the vestment is rose, pink, magenta, puce, fuchsia, or whatever, isn’t the question. Most priests, and really most men in general, consider the wearing of pink to be unmanly. Many men own shirts in this color range, but will never describe them as pink.

 

[benedictgal]

Another good one!

As you all can see, whether the actual color of the vestment is rose, pink, magenta, puce, fuchsia, or whatever, isn’t the question. Most priests, and really most men in general, consider the wearing of pink to be unmanly. Many men own shirts in this color range, but will never describe them as pink.

Just out of curiousity, how do monsignors feel about having to wear magenta? Or the bishops, for that matter? Since magenta is a derivative of pink/purple, I wonder what their opinion is. A friend of mine who is a monsignor likes the color and even has a berreta (with the magenta “pom-pom” on top) and a zucchetto with magenta piping. Someone suggested that he get magenta socks to match the cassock’s magenta piping and sash. We told him that it might look fetching.

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

The ruby-red-magenta color that bishops and monsignors wear is called Roman purple, an ancient euphemism that avoids the dreaded “pink.”

 

[Sailka]

Just out of curiousity, how do monsignors feel about having to wear magenta? Or the bishops, for that matter? Since magenta is a derivative of pink/purple, I wonder what their opinion is. A friend of mine who is a monsignor likes the color and even has a berreta (with the magenta “pom-pom” on top) and a zucchetto with magenta piping. Someone suggested that he get magenta socks to match the cassock’s magenta piping and sash. We told him that it might look fetching.

Red is historically The Royal Color Historically, and during the last 2 Millenia, the signature color of Martyrdom Ever since the Apostles, almost all of whom were Martyred, Red was worn by Bishops and Catholic Hierarchy in Remembrance of the Apostle Martyrs, And the willingness to Offer their life for the Faith Similarly . A family friend in WW II Hungary is a Beatified Martyr, Shot several Times by drunk Soviet Soldiers. His Name, for Search: Bishop Vilmos Apor. He was a Austro-Hungarian Baron, who traditionally Chose the Religious, not government life. He Did offer his Life For the Faith, protecting Innocents (women) from ‘abuse’.

And magenta is a watered down Red, in symbology.
Red is the color of Martyrdom, of offering ones life for God or Country. The Marine Corps Standard Color is Red, as it is for several prime British famed units, Like the Royal Marines.

 

[benedictgal]

Red is historically The Royal Color. Ever since the Apostles, almost all of whom were Martyred, Red was worn by Bishops and Catholic Hierarchy in Remembrance of the Apostle Martyrs, And the willingness to Offer their life for the Faith Similarly . A family friend in WW II Hungary is a Beatified Martyr, Shot several Times by drunk Soviet Soldiers. His Name, for Search: Bishop Vilmos Apor. He was a Austro-Hungarian Baron, who traditionally Chose the Religious, not government life. He Did offer his Life For the Faith, protecting Innocents (women) from ‘abuse’.

And magenta is a watered down Red.
Red is the color of Martyrdom, of offering ones life for God or Country. The Marine Corps Standard Color is Red, as it is for several prime British famed units, Like the Royal Marines.

And that is why cardinals wear red. When the Holy Father created the cardinals at a recent consistory, he reminded them that the red symbolizes that they may be called to give up their lives for the Church. I didn’t know about the magenta. Thank you for that piece of information.

 

[Sailka]

And that is why cardinals wear red. When the Holy Father created the cardinals at a recent consistory, he reminded them that the red symbolizes that they may be called to give up their lives for the Church. I didn’t know about the magenta. Thank you for that piece of information.

Exactly! Magenta is symbologicaly a weaker Red, but same Symbol, not weaker.

 

[Pixie_Dust]

To the new Catholic who posted-yes, the outermost thing the priest wears, which usually looks like a long robe, is a vestment, it is called the chausable. In the modern Roman Rite there are two/three colored vestments(which are liturgical items that priests wear), the chausable, the stole(the strip that goes around his neck) and the cincture, which is a little rope he ties around his waist(but it isn’t the same color as the robe).

Underneath this he wears an alb, a long white robe that covers whatever he is wearing underneath it(usually a black suit with the Roman collar or a cassock).

Thank you! I thought I had my terms correct. My priest doesn’t usually wear a cincture. In fact, I haven’t seen one on clergy since I left the Lutheran church in '06.

 

[FrDavid96]

Thank you! I thought I had my terms correct. My priest doesn’t usually wear a cincture. In fact, I haven’t seen one on clergy since I left the Lutheran church in '06.

Today, the cincture is often incorporated into the alb as a sort of “permanent belt.” Not always, but sometimes. The cincure isn’t required if it isn’t necessary when the alb is made to fit without one.

 

[Through_Him]

Our priest wore “purple” ? not sure if that is the correct name but advent color. My friend and I were sitting in the choir practicing waiting for Mass, and our priest came over, and she asked him where’s your pink. I didn’t know about the colors but they do have the choice, as according to the calendar, as is true on other days. He said I don’t look good in pink it’s not my color. I, myself, had on pink because it is just what I grabbed that morning. She was wearing a shade of rose. She said this is the only shade of pink I have. He said I am a winter I had one of those corrordinate tests so my color is actually red. I think he missed the gest of the insult. I was going to joke, like a cardinal but bit my tongue. He said we don’t have a rose vestment. I later told him I agree he doesn’t look good in pink as I think he felt embarrassed to wear pink. So what pink means you are female and blue means you are male? It isn’t all about him it is about the rejoicing, the Latin “Gaudete” means “rejoice” glad tidings for people in His hometown. It isn’t about what looks good on the priest, he is specially chosen by God to lead the people and be a shepherd. We mostly see Mary in blue. In the very old days boys wore pink and girls wore blue and then it changed, is it changing again? Our priest said when he baptizes babies the names are so different he doesn’t know if it is a girl or boy so he asks the assistant to put a pink or blue ribbon on the paper so he knows.It is kind of funny because I wear more pink now and dresses etc. because I like to. But a lot of women old and young come to Church in blue jeans just like their husbands and some their hair is as short as them. So there is no objection by the priest to this? It makes no sense it seems like relativism to me.

 

[Through_Him]

The Argument for the Existence of God from Aesthetic Experience

There is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Therefore, there must be a God. Dave BJ

You either see this one or you don’t. :hey_bud: :yup: :aok:

Thanks for telling us The Truths, Dave BJ. (Luckily, that White/Red shade only worn once a year, by Tradition. And no Priest wants to be a pinko.)

Ah yes this is the saying on a beautiful card from Abbey Press;you can order
*Bach *gave us God’s Word
*Mozart *gave us God’s Laughter
*Beethoven * gave is God’s Fire

GOD

gave us Music that we
might pray without words

 

[Sailka]

Our priest wore “purple” ? not sure if that is the correct name but advent color. My friend and I were sitting in the choir practicing waiting for Mass, and our priest came over, and she asked him where’s your pink. I didn’t know about the colors but they do have the choice, as according to the calendar, as is true on other days. He said I don’t look good in pink it’s not my color. I, myself, had on pink because it is just what I grabbed that morning. She was wearing a shade of rose. She said this is the only shade of pink I have. He said I am a winter I had one of those corrordinate tests so my color is actually red. I think he missed the gest of the insult. I was going to joke, like a cardinal but bit my tongue. He said we don’t have a rose vestment. I later told him I agree he doesn’t look good in pink as I think he felt embarrassed to wear pink. So what pink means you are female and blue means you are male? It isn’t all about him it is about the rejoicing, the Latin “Gaudete” means “rejoice” glad tidings for people in His hometown. It isn’t about what looks good on the priest, he is specially chosen by God to lead the people and be a shepherd. We mostly see Mary in blue. In the very old days boys wore pink and girls wore blue and then it changed, is it changing again? Our priest said when he baptizes babies the names are so different he doesn’t know if it is a girl or boy so he asks the assistant to put a pink or blue ribbon on the paper so he knows.It is kind of funny because I wear more pink now and dresses etc. because I like to. But a lot of women old and young come to Church in blue jeans just like their husbands and some their hair is as short as them. So there is no objection by the priest to this? It makes no sense it seems like relativism to me.

The Color of the Day for the Priest is another ancient Tradition. Only some days may a priest wear his color choice. “Pink/Rose” Is the Color assigned (Required excerpt for emergency like not having one) fior 2 days of the year: Gaulladette and one in Easter Season.

Vestment colors have nothing to do with fashions of the day. An earlier posdt here explained why a shade of Red is The ‘Apostolic Color’ for Bishops up, Because it signs the Martyrdom of all the Apostles except one, And the Readiness to die For the Faith as Bishops still do: An Eastern Rite Bishop in Iraq recently and Hungarian Bishop Vilmos Apor of Gyor Hungary, Now Beatifed Martyr (JP II the Great), shot 3 times by Soviet Soldiers in 1945, because he protercted the Women thedrunk soldiers wanted. He was Family Friend of my forebearers. So Vestment colors are Very significant part of Church History and Priorities for Our Lord.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Slight Thread drift:

Why are violet and purple considered interchangeable? They are completely different colors. Violet is the far end of the visible; beyond blue. Purple is a mixture of blue and red.

 

[FrDavid96]

Slight Thread drift:

Why are violet and purple considered interchangeable? They are completely different colors. Violet is the far end of the visible; beyond blue. Purple is a mixture of blue and red.

Most people (at least in the US) don’t make a distinction between violet and purple. “Violet” just isn’t a word we use in our everyday language. Perhaps it’s because that’s how we “learned our colors” we’ve always simply called it “purple” and it’s hard to break that habit.

I think it has more to do with the history of the colors, that “purple” was a very specific color in the ancient world, because in the entire mediterranean region, the only way the ancients could make a purple dye was to use certain shellfish, which made the color itself very expensive, and thereby associated with kings and emperors. In Rome (pagan or Christian), only Caesar wore purple, and so in the Roman way of thinking, there’s a distinction between “purple” and “purple-like” therefore the Church says that vestments are “violet” even though in everyday English, we simply use the word purple.

 

[Sailka]

Ah yes this is the saying on a beautiful card from Abbey Press;you can order
*Bach *gave us God’s Word
*Mozart *gave us God’s Laughter
*Beethoven * gave is God’s Fire

GOD

gave us Music that we
might pray without words

Exactly! It has been said that Hymns, Church Music, Like Mozart, Bach, Haydn, sooo Many more…are one of the highest forms of Prayer. :harp:

And the greatest Music, And Art has been inspired by the Greatness of God.

 

[Sailka]

Most people (at least in the US) don’t make a distinction between violet and purple. “Violet” just isn’t a word we use in our everyday language. Perhaps it’s because that’s how we “learned our colors” we’ve always simply called it “purple” and it’s hard to break that habit.

I think it has more to do with the history of the colors, that “purple” was a very specific color in the ancient world, because in the entire mediterranean region, the only way the ancients could make a purple dye was to use certain shellfish, which made the color itself very expensive, and thereby associated with kings and emperors. In Rome (pagan or Christian), only Caesar wore purple, and so in the Roman way of thinking, there’s a distinction between “purple” and “purple-like” therefore the Church says that vestments are “violet” even though in everyday English, we simply use the word purple.

Thank you Father for answering our tough Questions, And, Fr, for doing the most important work in the world.

I inly fiound out a few days aqo in this wondefful Web that a Priest gets 4 years Postgraduate education, as an MD does.