What colour vestment would you rather see a priest wear during a funeral mass?

[Maxwell03]

What colour vestment would you rather see a priest wear during a funeral mass?

• White (Why?)
• Violet (Why?)
• Black (Why?)

0 voters
And what colour does your priest usually wear?

• White
• Violet
• Black

0 voters

 

[Roguish]

Black vestments were originally purely a protestant thing. It’s lamentable that the RCC ever chose to allow priests to wear black.

 

[BartholomewB]

I would rather see him wear whatever color the Church says is the correct color for that day or for that occasion. That way nobody has an excuse for petty nitpicking and faultfinding.

 

[stpurl]

Where did you hear that? According to New Advent the 5 liturgical colors have been in place since Pope Pius V (and he lived when Protestants were just starting out) and black was used as a liturgical color from the time of Pope Innocent around AD 1270 or so. So how could ‘black vestments’ have been originally Protestant?

 

[stpurl]

In the Roman Rite, since Pius V, colours are five in number, viz.: white, red, green, violet, and black. Rose colour is employed only on Lætare and Gaudete Sundays. Blue is prescribed in some dioceses of Spain for the Mass of the Immaculate Conception.

White is the colour proper to Trinity Sunday, the feasts of Our Lord, except those of His Passion, the feasts of the Blessed Virgin, angels, confessors, virgins and women, who are not martyrs, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the chief feast of St. John the Evangelist, the feast of the Chains and of the Chair of St. Peter, the Conversion of St. Paul, All Saints, to consecration of churches and altars, the anniversaries of the election and coronation of the pope and of the election and consecration of bishops; also for the octaves of these feasts and the Offices de tempore from Holy Saturday to the vigil of Pentecost; it is used for votive Masses when the feasts have white, and for the nuptial Mass; also in services in connection with the Blessed Sacrament, at the burial of children, in the administration of baptism, Holy Viaticum, and matrimony.

Red is used the week of Pentecost, on the feasts of Christ’s Passion and His Precious Blood, the Finding and Elevation of the Cross, the feasts of Apostles and martyrs; and in votive Masses of these feasts. It is used on Holy Innocents if the feast occur on Sunday and always on its octave.

Green is employed in Offices de tempore from the octave of the Epiphany to Septuagesima, and from the octave of Pentecost to Advent, except on ember-days and vigils during that time, and on Sundays occurring within an octave.

Violet is used during Advent and from Septuagesima to Easter, on vigils that are fast days, and on ember-days, except the vigil of Pentecost and the ember-days during the octave of Pentecost. Violet is also used for Mass on rogation-days, for votive Masses of the Passion and of penitential character, at the blessing of candles and of holy water. The stole used in the administration of penance and of extreme unction and in the first part of the baptismal ceremonies must be violet.

Black is used in offices for the dead, and on Good Friday.

 

[BridgetN]

Our priest always wears black at funerals, and that’s what I prefer.
Isn’t that the thing to wear at a funeral?
Black signifies death, and mourning, white would mean your trying to rejoice, even though, you don’t know if the person went to heaven.
In’t it the appropriate thing to wear black at a funeral?

Black vestments were originally purely a protestant thing

No way! If anything, white sounds Protestant, because some believe all those in the Church are automatically saved.

 

[katy]

Black. It is the color of mourning and people are mourning. I suppose white could be because of our hope, but it looks as though the church is assuming everyone goes to Heaven and no one is in need of prayers.