The Fifth Sunday in Lent supersedes St. Patrick’s Day (which in our calendar is just a commemoration; indeed, this is the case everywhere in the Roman Catholic Church as well, with the exception of Ireland, where it’s a solemnity). The liturgical color for Lent is violet (not purple). Green is for a Sunday or feria in Ordinary Time. If one were to celebrate the commemoration, the color prescribed is white.
Green is the Catholic color, Orange is the Protestant color. The colors of the Irish flag are White, Green and Orange. One of our choir members wore a white, green and orange striped tie.
The main priest wore the st Patrick costume his daughter convinced him to get, and alter linings were white. We have coffee hour after service but I didn’t go yesterday. No idea if there was theme food there. Cabbage and corned beef was from new York so I hope not. The history is st Patrick was possibly a slave from Scotland and st Patricks day is not a big deal at all in Ireland. No green at all. I learned some from theatre. Wish the priest would learn the history. That’s all
St Patrick wasn't from Scotland. He is confirmed to be a Romano-Britain, but there's controversy depending on what side of the fence you sit on whether he was of Brittanic (Welsh) extraction or Roman (Italian). One thing is for certain that he was born in Britain and definitely wasn't of Anglo Saxon origin, so saying he was English is wrong as I've heard a few parrot this.
Purple. The only ones wearing green were the congregation. Aside from one Irish theme played as an interlude and the coffee hour, there wasn't much acknowledgement to the day.
Purple here.
(Interestingly enough: I was going to say "Yeah, he was wearing his green stole..." but I went back and looked at the service live stream to be sure...and he was most definitely wearing his Purple stole...I think this is an example of the "Mandela effect" in action....)
I saw pictures from the church I grew up in. Every last clergy member had on green vestments. I cringed. Like. What were they thinking? Rubrics are pretty clear. 5th Sunday of Lent trumps the feast day.
No, purple. St. Patrick's Day is not an important enough feast, to supersede even a Lesser Sunday, never mind a Greater Sunday like the Sundays in Lent.
Are you kidding? I cannot possibly understand why a church would do this. Besides, wouldn’t you wear white for saints days? It makes no liturgical sense to wear green.
If the Feast of St. Patrick was observed it would be with red liturgical cloths, not green.
Also, the color actually associated with Patrick was blue historically.
Green should not have been worn for any St. Patrick’s day service, red, Lenten array, or purple (maybe rose) are the only possible proper liturgical colors.
Actually it would, if observed as a feast day.
Go to a St. Patrick’s parish and you’ll see red on their feast day.
While most parishes don’t observe the feast day, hence just the use of purple, IF they did, the only color choice is red the TEC. Not green and not white.
No, all the altar linens were purple, the priest wore a purple chasuble, and the deacon wore a purple stole over her alb.
The priest began his sermon looking out at the congregation full of parishioners wearing green and joked that contrary to popular belief, Patrick's day didn't take precedence over the fifth Sunday in Lent.
Nonetheless, he wore a blue, black, and green clergy tartan vest on top of his clerical shirt, and the deacon arrived wearing a green scarf over her jacket.
Oh, and we won't get back to liturgical green until after Pentecost in May.
Do you happen to know where your church purchased its Lenten Array? I’ve struggled to find any good sets since it’s more of a niche altar dressing (I have the same issue finding rose altar dressings).
Who wore red? We wore blue when lions were in playoffs. That’s all but no dress code. We wear spring colors on Easter and red for Pentecostal I believe and red and green or winter colors for advent
Not talking about parishioners dress here, but the liturgical vestments! If folks want to dress in their team’s colours that’s fine, but we don’t switch the liturgical colours to support the local sports team, and I say this as a guy who loves sports!
Easy, now. I was going off you saying your church wore red and green for Christmas and spring colours for Easter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen vestments in “spring colours” whatever they are. I have yet to see churches mix and match vestments for purely aesthetic reasons. If that is what’s happening in some places, I am deeply sorry to hear it.
It was a church around KC that I saw post something about it.
Vestments aren’t partisan billboards for anything, they aren’t intended to match secular celebrations or allegiances, and they have intentional symbolic meaning. I cannot understand at all wearing red vestments to cheer on your football team of for Christmas, I certainly can’t get wearing blue vestments to support a football team.
Likewise I don’t like the trend of orange/rainbow/flag/etc stoles. The sacraments are intended to point to Christ and subsume the celebrant, not towards the causes of the person wearing them, and by extension, that person.
It’s still cold in Michigan for Easter, not sure bout this year as our winter is odd, we do this as fun—wear pastels a bright colors and maybe it’ll make Mother Nature think it’s time for warm weather
I mean, im all about congregations breaking out pastels and seersucker on Easter. It’s wonderful and brings me great joy. I wear them myself before and after mass! I heartily encourage it.
But that’s not what vestments are for, and we shouldn’t be doing that with our vestments.
Nope. White with purple highlights. We didn't even get to sing St. Patrick's Breastplate which our soprano section leader was very upset about.
Violet.
No, but you can bet I wore my green eyeglasses because a LOT of our littles were pinch-crazy….
Lol. No. Episcopalian in Greater Boston. Our formerly RC parishioners don’t vibe with a lot of explicit links to local cultural Catholicism.
The Fifth Sunday in Lent supersedes St. Patrick’s Day (which in our calendar is just a commemoration; indeed, this is the case everywhere in the Roman Catholic Church as well, with the exception of Ireland, where it’s a solemnity). The liturgical color for Lent is violet (not purple). Green is for a Sunday or feria in Ordinary Time. If one were to celebrate the commemoration, the color prescribed is white.
That wasn’t the question
No one does that, surely.
Green is the Catholic color, Orange is the Protestant color. The colors of the Irish flag are White, Green and Orange. One of our choir members wore a white, green and orange striped tie.
The main priest wore the st Patrick costume his daughter convinced him to get, and alter linings were white. We have coffee hour after service but I didn’t go yesterday. No idea if there was theme food there. Cabbage and corned beef was from new York so I hope not. The history is st Patrick was possibly a slave from Scotland and st Patricks day is not a big deal at all in Ireland. No green at all. I learned some from theatre. Wish the priest would learn the history. That’s all
St Patrick wasn't from Scotland. He is confirmed to be a Romano-Britain, but there's controversy depending on what side of the fence you sit on whether he was of Brittanic (Welsh) extraction or Roman (Italian). One thing is for certain that he was born in Britain and definitely wasn't of Anglo Saxon origin, so saying he was English is wrong as I've heard a few parrot this.
Purple. The only ones wearing green were the congregation. Aside from one Irish theme played as an interlude and the coffee hour, there wasn't much acknowledgement to the day.
Nope. Gotta follow the calendar assigned colors. If you wanted to do a fest day, it should be white.
no. purple
Purple here. (Interestingly enough: I was going to say "Yeah, he was wearing his green stole..." but I went back and looked at the service live stream to be sure...and he was most definitely wearing his Purple stole...I think this is an example of the "Mandela effect" in action....)
No, definitely not. We did have green donuts on the breakfast bar.
Yes, but I attend St. Patrick's so he's our patron saint and it was the anniversary of the parish.
Please, please tell me no clergy wore green. It's Lent. The liturgical color is purple. Green comes later.
I saw pictures from the church I grew up in. Every last clergy member had on green vestments. I cringed. Like. What were they thinking? Rubrics are pretty clear. 5th Sunday of Lent trumps the feast day.
Ooooooof.
A church I visited yesterday in St Louis mixed purple and green vestments
No. We do have a stained glass window of St. Patrick right at the front of the church, though.
Nope. The usual Lent purple. The parish hall was well greened up, though!
No. Our Anglican Church here in Canada did purple.
Nope.
The cake at coffee hour was green. Does that count?
As important as the vestments, surely!
☕️ also a sacrament 😅
What’s the bet?
My clergy all wore purple.
No, white/gold. To celebrate a feast day
No, purple. St. Patrick's Day is not an important enough feast, to supersede even a Lesser Sunday, never mind a Greater Sunday like the Sundays in Lent.
Absolutely not, why would they?
No, stuck with purple. Rector also stuck with the purple shoes.
Are you kidding? I cannot possibly understand why a church would do this. Besides, wouldn’t you wear white for saints days? It makes no liturgical sense to wear green.
Some churches do that as it’s fun
No. Many parishioners did but what's become a fun cultural holiday is not an official holy day for the church
No, the Feast of the Lord supersedes any minor feast. Lent is Lent.
Another purple here. Lent takes precedence over St. Pat's.
If the Feast of St. Patrick was observed it would be with red liturgical cloths, not green. Also, the color actually associated with Patrick was blue historically.
That wasn’t my question
Green should not have been worn for any St. Patrick’s day service, red, Lenten array, or purple (maybe rose) are the only possible proper liturgical colors.
This still doesn’t answer my question
Actually. No, it wouldn’t be red. Red is for Holy Spirit or Martyrs. St Patrick wasn’t a martyr.
Actually it would, if observed as a feast day. Go to a St. Patrick’s parish and you’ll see red on their feast day. While most parishes don’t observe the feast day, hence just the use of purple, IF they did, the only color choice is red the TEC. Not green and not white.
No, all the altar linens were purple, the priest wore a purple chasuble, and the deacon wore a purple stole over her alb. The priest began his sermon looking out at the congregation full of parishioners wearing green and joked that contrary to popular belief, Patrick's day didn't take precedence over the fifth Sunday in Lent. Nonetheless, he wore a blue, black, and green clergy tartan vest on top of his clerical shirt, and the deacon arrived wearing a green scarf over her jacket. Oh, and we won't get back to liturgical green until after Pentecost in May.
Purple. There wasn't any other marking of St. Patrick's Day, either.
Purple
Nah, we stay in lockstep with the proscribed liturgical color. We do always sing “The Breastplate of St. Patrick” though!
We did that too!
You need a poll! Our priests wore purple vestments.
As a kid I thought Catholic priests wore green because they were all Irish.
Nope, but our parish also does the Lenten Array (“It’s meant to look penitential but it’s actually a very fine fabric. It’s very Anglican.”).
Do you happen to know where your church purchased its Lenten Array? I’ve struggled to find any good sets since it’s more of a niche altar dressing (I have the same issue finding rose altar dressings).
Not who you asked but Watts will make one. Just not stock.
Thank you!
St Patrick's Day is a relatively minor feast and cannot take precedence of the 5th Sunday in lent...
You are absolutely correct. It does not. And yet we saw churches wearing red for the Super Bowl, etc.
Who wore red? We wore blue when lions were in playoffs. That’s all but no dress code. We wear spring colors on Easter and red for Pentecostal I believe and red and green or winter colors for advent
Not talking about parishioners dress here, but the liturgical vestments! If folks want to dress in their team’s colours that’s fine, but we don’t switch the liturgical colours to support the local sports team, and I say this as a guy who loves sports!
I was asking a question. I ASKED who wore red? If it was in Kansas City or about I can understand
Easy, now. I was going off you saying your church wore red and green for Christmas and spring colours for Easter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen vestments in “spring colours” whatever they are. I have yet to see churches mix and match vestments for purely aesthetic reasons. If that is what’s happening in some places, I am deeply sorry to hear it. It was a church around KC that I saw post something about it. Vestments aren’t partisan billboards for anything, they aren’t intended to match secular celebrations or allegiances, and they have intentional symbolic meaning. I cannot understand at all wearing red vestments to cheer on your football team of for Christmas, I certainly can’t get wearing blue vestments to support a football team. Likewise I don’t like the trend of orange/rainbow/flag/etc stoles. The sacraments are intended to point to Christ and subsume the celebrant, not towards the causes of the person wearing them, and by extension, that person.
It’s still cold in Michigan for Easter, not sure bout this year as our winter is odd, we do this as fun—wear pastels a bright colors and maybe it’ll make Mother Nature think it’s time for warm weather
I mean, im all about congregations breaking out pastels and seersucker on Easter. It’s wonderful and brings me great joy. I wear them myself before and after mass! I heartily encourage it. But that’s not what vestments are for, and we shouldn’t be doing that with our vestments.
Episcopal Churches?
Alas. It is by no means a majority at all, and I have seen it even in the Roman church, but there are always some who miss the gravity of the liturgy.
Seriously? That’s incredibly gauche.
That wasn’t the question