Ash Wednesday Color

Good Friday, or Black Friday in combination with Ash Wednesday, calls for sober reflection on the cost of our redemption. Without Christ's sacrifice on the day the sky turned dark and hid the light of the sun, there would be no bright Light of Christ to live in, nor new life in Christ to enjoy. Gold Gold is the optional color for Easter Sunday.

Ash Wednesday is 46 days before Easter Day. The color for Ash Wednesday and the rest of Lent is purple for penitence. Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter Day, is a time of rejoicing.

The color can be red, or purple. The beginning of Holy Week. On Good Friday, the altar is stripped of all its colorful hangings, and a purple veil covers the.

Black: The color of ashes (Ash Wednesday, funerals, and Totenfest (the last Sunday of Trinitytide) in Prussian heritage) and darkness (Good Friday). For the use of ashes for penitence, see the verses I sent above for Violet. Ash Wednesday: Purple is the preferred color as this is the first day of Lent.

Historically, black has also been used on this day, since it is the color of the ashes to which we will all return. Revised Common Lectionary. Ash Wednesday: The Beginning of Lent Feast Day: Varies (40 days before Easter, always on a Wednesday) Liturgical Color: Violet (Symbolizing penance and preparation) Significance: Marks the beginning of Lent, a season of repentance, fasting, and spiritual renewal.

Ash Wednesday is our liturgical and public statement that we have chosen both repentance and redemption. As you come forward to receive the ashes today, make this act a prayer and one of deep interior devotion. Call to mind your sins and the sins of your whole life, as best you can.

Ash Wednesday through the first five weeks of Lent: purple Palm / Passion Sunday: red and/or purple Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week: purple Maundy Thursday: purple (until the church is stripped bare) Good Friday: no color; church remains stripped bare Easter Season (including Ascension of the Lord): white and gold Day of Pentecost: red. The Monday before Ash Wednesday has been called Hall Monday, Callop Monday, named for a food eaten that day, and Blue Monday, named because on this Monday the penitence of Lent is approaching, thus causing some to have feelings of depression, symbolized by the color blue. In Protestant traditions, the Feast of the Transfiguration is typically observed on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and white is used for that one day.

Lent / Easter / Pentecost For the season of Lent, beginning with Ash Wednesday, purple/violet is common, although black or red are sometimes used.