Colors
This liturgical seasons is counted time. It is the longest of the liturgical seasons and is split into two sections. It is represented by the color green.
What is Ordinary Time?
Advent is about preparing for this feast day.
What is Christmas?
During this season, the Church often has manger scenes and trees with lights.
What is Christmas?
This is the oldest feast day.
What is Easter?
Let forty days of Lent represent Moses doing this.
What is wandering the desert for 40 years?
This color represents the blood of the Martyrs.
What is Red?
Easter concludes with the celebration of this feast. 50 days after Easter, it is when the Holy Spirit descends on the apostles.
What is Pentecost?
During this season, the church is full of Lilies.
What is Easter?
Much like lent, this season used to be observed with strict penances.
This season represents the longing of the prophets and Israelites for their savior.
What is lent?
These two colors represent days of greatest solemnity in the United States. There is also a song by their names in Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer Claymation.
What are Silver and Gold?
This Holy day of obligation takes place during the Christmas season, a week after Christmas, January 1st.
What is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God?
During these two seasons, music is kept to a minimum and no decorations are set out.
What is lent and advent?
Now used on days of greater solemnity, this Eucharistic Prayer is the oldest one continually used.
What is the Roman Canon or Eucharistic Prayer I?
Easter is celebrate on the Passover which was the Israelite feast celebrating this.
What is the escape from Egypt?
This color is worn on Guadete and Laetare Sundays. The names come from the Latin entrance antiphons, meaning rejoice. Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. (rejoice in the lord always I say it again rejoice) Laetare Ierusalem: et coventum facite, omnes qui diligitis: ut exsultetis et satiemini ab uberibus consolationis vestrae. (rejoice Jerusalem and all who lover her. Be joyful all who were in mourning exult and be satisfied at her consoling breasts.)
What is Rose?
This feast day takes place on the last Sunday of Ordinary Time.
What is Christ the King?
During this season, there are a moderate amount of decorations, nothing too fancy, but nothing too simple.
What is Ordinary Time?
This feast day used to mark the end of the Christmas season. Now the Feast of the Epiphany does.
What is Candlemas or the Presentation?
The martyrs who died in the persecutions in the Early Church looked to the example of this woman.
Who is the mother whose seven sons were tortured in Maccabees?
This color may be worn on All Souls Day and at funerals. It is a color which represents our grief.
What is black?
These two days are the only days in lent when the Gloria is said.
What are the Feasts of St. Joseph and the Annunciation?
During this week in the season of lent, the statues are wrapped in purple cloth and the holy water is emptied.
What is the fifth week of lent?
This day is celebrated with the oldest liturgy we have.
What is Good Friday?
Mary's Magnificat is parallels the prayer of this woman trying to conceive a son.
Who is Hannah?