I am answering this question during the Christmas season, so the vestments are white. Here is the entire year:
Advent - violet
Christmas - white
Ordinary Time - green
Lent - violet
Easter - white
Ordinary Time - green
If it is a feast day, then the vestments change depending on the feast day. For martyrs, the Holy Spirit, and the passion of Our Lord, the color is red. For saints who are not martyrs, the color is white. For a funeral the priest may use black, white, or violet. Gold may be substituted for any color.
In the Church, the color purple represents Penance. Therefore, the purple vestments are worn during Lent/Easter, a time where Christ died to forgive us of our sins. . In the Catholic Church a "purple" vestment means that you do not know the correct terminology for liturgical colors in current terminology. Currently, purple only refers to Bishop's cassocks and such while violet is the word used for vestments. In the Catholic Church violet vestments are used in Advent, Lent, and for sacraments of confession and at other times for penance.
Saint Valentine was a martyr, he was beheaded. In the Catholic Church, the color red is is used for the vestments and altar cloths on the feast day of a martyr.
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Vestments made from cloth of gold may be used on days of special solemnity as a substitute for white, red, or green.purple
The Ordo states that White is the color for the vestments on All Souls Day, but Black or Violet may be used instead.
There is symbolism in each liturgical color, and so the color of the vestments or hangings will be determined by: 1. The moods appropriate to the season of the liturgical year. 2. A color appropriate to a special religious event. Different colors are used by different branches of the church in different countries. Hope this helps!
.Catholic AnswerFor the feast of saints who are not martyrs, white is used. For martyrs red.
As an altar server, I have seen vestments of the colour: -Red -Black -Green -White -Violet -Purple -White with an imgae of Mary on the back
Pall is either a fine cloth, such as that used for a church altar or woollen vestments, a cloak, or a verb meaning to cloak.
The liturgical color green represents growth and life in the Church. Ordinary Time is a period of growth and maturation in faith for Christians, hence the green color is used to symbolize this continual development and journey towards spiritual maturity.
The Church does not stipulate a color for anniversaries.
The sacristy is where most of the stuff is kept for Mass: the chalice, vestments, altar cloths, etc. Most priest vest in the sacristy as the vestments are stored there. There are prayers assigned to be said with each vestment. In some monasteries there is a separate vesting room, where they vestments are laid out in a particular pattern, which their chalice on a shelve above it. Anglican priests, and protestant ministers robe in the vestry (so called because it houses the vestments).