The Advent season is on its way. This means that within the Church, changes will have to be made—especially with the vestments. Typically, liturgical vestments change according to liturgical seasons. This means that during Advent, priests will have to don new attire. Why exactly do they have to wear different vestments for different seasons? Does it make sense that they have to change vestment colors from time to time? Well, below is why ministers wear different colors of vestments—in this case, during Advent, which is fast approaching.
During the Advent season, priests of the Roman Rite will wear purple vestments to celebrate the mood of the seasons.
Since Advent prepares us for the Christmas season, being a season of joy, the lush purple color is made to embody that sort of joy which we feel in preparation for commemorating the birth of Christ. The season is also reflected in church decorations. So you may see banners of the same color and the ambo draped in it.
Even the altar cloth can reflect the liturgical color. These are white, green, red and purple. Liturgical green is green — even if there are various shades. Likewise, red is red and white is white. Yes, there are two purples used in the liturgical year: one for Advent and one for Lent. And they are quite different. In ancient times, purple was the color of kings. The dye used to make the color was rare and expensive.
In the days of imperial Rome — and, later, the Byzantine Empire — only the emperor wore purple. The Latin purpura refers both to purple dye and the shellfish used to make that dye. In order to distinguish between this season and the specifically penitential season of Lent, the bluer hues of violet may be used during Advent.
Light blue vestments, however, are not authorized for use in the United States. In order to distinguish between this season and the specifically penitential season of Lent, the brighter and redder hues of violet, not indigo hues, may be used during Advent.
Blue vestments are not authorized for use in the United States. At our parish, we have always used the bluer hues of violet royal purple for Advent darker days of expectation, Midnight Mass and the redder hues of violet Roman purple for Lent sacrificial aspect, Palm Sunday, Good Friday. A: The different recommendations might be a cut-and-paste error from the previous year, a change in editorial opinion, or a subliminal advert to increase the sale of liturgical vestments.
With respect to the purpose of using different liturgical colors, the instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum , No. The use of the diverse colors is both pedagogical and symbolic of the various liturgical feasts and seasons. Violet or purple is used in Advent and of Lent. It may also be worn in Offices and Masses for the Dead cf. However, this faculty, which is specifically intended in reference to vestments made many years ago, with a view to preserving the Church's patrimony, is improperly extended to innovations by which forms and colors are adopted according to the inclination of private individuals, with disregard for traditional practice, while the real sense of this norm is lost to the detriment of the tradition.
On the occasion of a feast day, sacred vestments of a gold or silver color can be substituted as appropriate for others of various colors, but not for purple or black. The norms indicate the use of either violet or purple. Violet violaceus is a hue similar to that of the synonymous flower and is defined by the Collins dictionary as "any of a group of colors that vary in saturation but have the same purplish-blue hue. They lie at one end of the visible spectrum, next to blue" — actually, next to indigo — "approximate wavelength range nanometers.
The liturgical norms make no preference for any particular shade of either color, and any and all of them may be used for liturgical vestments.
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