Colors

Color plays an import part in the designation of seasons and feasts in the Anglican Churches. Each church season has a color associated with it. Advent is purple (the color of preparation and penitence) or Incarnation/Marian Blue (in honor of The Incarnation and/or Mary), Christmas is white (the color celebration), Epiphany is green (the color of growth; growth of the gospel message from Jew to Gentile - re: the three Wise Men), Lent is purple, Easter is white, and the season after Pentecost is green (for the growth of the church). Weddings and funerals are usually occasions for white (the color of celebration) while Pentecost Sunday and ordinations are red, to signify the presence of the Holy Spirit. Black is occasionally used one day a year -- Good Friday. Rose is used on Gaudete Sunday in Advent and Laetare Sunday in Lent.