What Color Vestments Did Your Priest Use for the 3rd Week in Advent (Gaudete Sunday)

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jnm said:
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Today both our deacon and priest wore rose. Our deacon mentioned this in the homily he gave. I guess earlier today Father said the deacon looked good in pink. Our deacon told us that he quickly pointed out to father that it was not pink… but rose. 😛
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Hmmm…they must have talked to our parish…we had a visiting/helping out priest who said he mentioned “pink” and our pastor told him it’s not pink, it’s ROSE. – hmm, our deacon gave the homily too – and the same joke…did I see where you’re from?? LOL
 
Ours wore purple. According to our Ordo, the priest may or may not wear the rose-colored vestment. The difficulty, in my opinion is: a) quality vestments are so costly, can the parish justify a set the will only be used 2 times during the church year; b) the color should be rose…not pink…our parish has a set of the ugliest “Pepto Bismal” pink vestments…I was really quite pleased to see that Father opted for the purple.:cool:
 
I knew you all would come through.

My bad for being imprecise earlier. What I meant to convey was that, while indeed the rose is “optional” for the third Sunday of Advent, there was absolutely no way (as I took it from the post I responded to) that the option was “no longer required” in favor of purple alone.

IOW, certainly the purple OR the rose is permitted.
But the rose is not “no longer required”. I still do not believe that there is any diocese in the U.S. which states that rose is NOT an option, correct?

As for the possibility of the priest worrying about looking less than masculine when wearing rose, somebody needs to update the male population then, because in the last 30 years rose has become a color of choice for men, from tuxedoes and formal wear shirts to plain old sweaters, oxford cloth shirts, etc.

My 80 something year old Polish priest wore a lightish rose color and wasn’t a bit self conscious either.
 
Our priest wore rose.

As the cantor, I wore a rose-colored shell under my suit jacket. 🙂
 
Just an aside - can your priest say “Gaudete” properly?

At Mass yesterday a visiting priest said "Gaw (rhymes with “paw”) dah tay rather that Gow (rhymes with “cow”) day tay.

Sometimes it’s the little stuff that really makes my skin crawl.
 
adrift said:
What color is required?

Our priest wore purple and said it was no longer required to where rose and he didn’t look good in that color. Is he right?
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Since when is it required to look good in the color of the Holy vestments? Sounds strange to me.
 
He wore rose colored vestments…and pronounced Gaudette perfectly.
 
The priest and both deacons wore rose-colored vestments, and our pastor, who came in to help with the eucharist, wore a rose stole over his alb. Everyone looked fantastic!
 
The priests at both our 9:00am and 11:00am Masses wore a very bright shade of rose. (Is there such a color as hot rose?)

The deacon assisting at the 9:00am Mass wore a purple stole over a white alb. The priest who concelebrated the 11:00am Mass wore a purple stole over a white robe. The priest’s chasuble must be our only rose vestment.
 
jnm said:
Hi!

Today both our deacon and priest wore rose. Our deacon mentioned this in the homily he gave. I guess earlier today Father said the deacon looked good in pink. Our deacon told us that he quickly pointed out to father that it was not pink… but rose. 😛
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I think you might be in my parish, I heard this same joke. I think. Our deacon walks around when he gives the homily, and it makes it very hard for me to hear. :mad:
 
Ours wore violet, but he commented that if our parish could afford it, he would wear rose. I thik that was kind of a poke at our incomming priest who is coming from a very affluent area to our poor little parish.
 
johnnykins said:
Just an aside - can your priest say “Gaudete” properly?

At Mass yesterday a visiting priest said "Gaw (rhymes with “paw”) dah tay rather that Gow (rhymes with “cow”) day tay.
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The last syllable in Gaudete (or any plural imperative in Latin) is actually a short “e”, so it’s not pronounced “ay”. A short “e” is pronounced like the “e” in “ten”. So the correct pronunciation of Gaudete is “gow-day-te” (accentuation on the “day”). 🙂

The Celebrant of the Mass in my parish wore a nice light rose, but the other priests (my parish is run by a community of priests) wore purple stoles when distributing Communion. The homilist wore a purple stole as well. The celebrant didn’t seem to mind the rose - he’s a good sport and joyful year-round. 😃

Karolina
 
Our priest wore rose. I heard on Relevant Radio that day that rose colored vespers can be worn only two days of the year. One is the third Sunday in Advent and the other is Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent.) Rose vestments are traditionally worn as a sign of joy: we rejoice at the midpoint because we are half-way through the preparation and anticipate the coming joy of Christmas or Easter.
 
Lampo said:
Our priest wore rose. I heard on Relevant Radio that day that rose colored vespers can be worn only two days of the year. One is the third Sunday in Advent and the other is Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent.) Rose vestments are traditionally worn as a sign of joy: we rejoice at the midpoint because we are half-way through the preparation and anticipate the coming joy of Christmas or Easter.
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vestments = garments worn by a priest, deacon etc in the celebration of liturgy.

vesPERS = Evening Prayer.

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Being Homebound and get the mass of EWTN shortwave radio, the vestments have no color to me.
 
LilyM said:
vestments = garments worn by a priest, deacon etc in the celebration of liturgy.

vesPERS = Evening Prayer.

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Congrats on you 4000th post!
 
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