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Vestment and hanging colours following the church year.
Also known as: Vestment colours, Church year colours
Western churches use a sequence of colours through the liturgical year — violet for penitential seasons, white for feasts, red for martyrs and Pentecost, green for ordinary time. The sequence differs between denominations and between rites, so a colour identifies a season only once the tradition is known.
Follow the liturgical year in vestments and hangings, with violet, white, red and green marking different seasons and observances.
Contexts: Religion
Differ between denominations and rites, so the same colour does not mark the same season across Western and Eastern churches or between Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran use.
Contexts: Religion
Flat bands of colour worn as vestments and hung across an altar frontal, changed at each liturgical season.