Many parts of the Church in South America, Germany and the Philippines are allowed blue vestments for Marian feasts. Why not in the USA?
I have also in the past advocated dark, very dark, blue vestments for the season of Advent. In my former parish in Augusta, I had a lovely set. The next pastor tossed them because of a rigid liturgical color attitude, so unloving to dark blue loving priests and laity, so unloving!
New Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Jose Advincula:
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That priest must be afraid that Jesus is going to give him Covid.
The “Abbe Zed” has similarly made interesting comments on the topic of blue vestments.
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Gaudete in Domino Semper!
Baby blue is not a good luck nor are these particular vestments. However, I have seen some exquisite blue vestments. When I was an altarboy decades ago, on Marian feasts I recall beautiful white vestments which were trimmed in blue.
Q: When is a liturgical abuse not an abuse?
A: Whenever it takes Fr McDonsld’s fancy!
Well, changing the words of the glorious and new English translation of the Mass is a liturgical abuse of the first class type that tickles my fancy when those doing it are corrected, reprimanded and censured.
Marini Kavanaugh,
Give it a rest. You always sound envious of Father McDonald
In 2008 the then (Anglican) Bishop of Gloucester invited the Association for Latin Liturgy and the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge to celebrate Solemn Mass and the Dupré Vespers in his Cathedral. The celebrant was the abbot of Belmont Abbey, and since Gloucester was a Benedictine foundation he complimented the Anglicans for looking after it so well in their absence!
It was the Feast of the Visitation and the vestments (chasuble, dalmatics, copes) were blue. Some were provided by the cathedral, others by the abbey.
Fr Allan, you need to realize that the Sacred Congregation of Rites with its micromanagement is long defunct. In the 1920s it tried to outlaw gothic-style vestments; in England and America this was wisely ignored.
Wear blue if you want - preferably not sky-blue polyester with matching face-muzzle, though.
Blue (actually 'cerulean' or sky-blue) is allowed by indult in some places for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. To be sure, some have bent the rules and used that color on other Marian feasts. It has been a regular color in the Mozarabic Rite in Spain, and from there spread to certain other Spanish founded Churches. Dark blue? Not mentioned in the Missal. I think vestment makers pushed this to increase sales like they did with bishops' miters matching the chasuble. Never was the tradition until post VII. Anyway, rose (rosacea, not 'pink'), black and gold are allowable colors that we don't often see in some places. Black almost never.
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