liturgical colours

Many Protestant churches do not use liturgical colours at all.

Eastern mitres are usually gold, but other liturgical colours may be used.

It was originally made of red or white fabric, but later came to follow the standard liturgical colours.

Originally, it was red in color, but later was made to correspond to the liturgical colours.

The following are the differences between its rules for liturgical colours and the later rules:

Distinct liturgical colours may appear in connection with different seasons of the liturgical year.

Slavic-use churches and others influenced by Western traditions have adopted a cycle of liturgical colours.

Correspondingly, the liturgical colours of the season are replaced with rose, hence the name "Rose Sunday".

A wide range of vestments over the decades in liturgical colours of white, gold, red, green, violet and black, were displayed artistically.

Liturgical colours are those specific colours used for vestments and hangings within the context of Christian liturgy.

The liturgical colours are changed from the somber Lenten hues to more festive colours (red is common in the Slavic practice).

The church retains the Book of Common Prayer, the traditional Liturgical colours and the principal services are sung by a robed choir.

According to the Russian Orthodox Church's Nastol'naya Kniga Sviashchenno-sluzhitelia, up to eight different liturgical colours may be used throughout the year.

In the Church of England liturgical colours are recommended but not mandatory, so while red is encouraged during this period, individual churches may continue to use green until Advent.

The liturgical hobby surfaced publicly in 1879 when he became a founder member of the re-established St Paul's Ecclesiological Society and with a 1881 essay on liturgical colours.

Red, not the Roman-Rite green, is the standard colour of vestments from Pentecost to the third Sunday of October, and there are other differences in liturgical colours throughout the year.

Features of the new sanctuary were the free standing altar, (unusual for the time), clear glass windows, specially designed candle sticks, a Laudian altar front and a perspex cross containing stripes of the liturgical colours.

In Anglican circles, blue is sometimes prescribed for feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary (see liturgical colours) although it is also used, unofficially, in some areas of the Roman Catholic Church.

Though liturgical colours are not as fixed in the Eastern practice (normally there are simply "festive" colours and "somber" or Lenten colours), in some churches, green is used for Pentecost and its Afterfeast.

The Holy Week services begin on the night of Palm Sunday, and the liturgical colours are changed from the festive hues of Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday back to somber Lenten colours.

Up to the end of the Middle Ages the usual colour was white, although the gloves at New College, Oxford, are red; apparently it was not until the sixteenth century that the ordinances as to liturgical colours were applied to episcopal gloves.

In the mid-eighties there was the building and opening of this lovely Cathedral and therefore the Guild was again very busy making 13 sets of cream vestments together with 52 Stoles - 13 of each of the four liturgical colours.

Since the 1980 Alternative Service Book liturgical colours have been recommended for seasons, with more detailed advice offered as part of the Common Worship series of liturgies, including colours for all Sundays and festivals printed in the 'core volume' next to collects.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has sanctioned the use of liturgical colours and promoted their use in the 1993 Book of Common Worship (although their use was also promoted in the church's annual Planning Calendars beginning in the 1980s).

The rules on liturgical colours before the time of Pope Pius X were essentially those indicated in the edition of the Roman Missal that Pope Pius V promulgated in 1570, except for the addition of feasts not included in his Missal.