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Here is a comparative
table of liturgical colours apparently used in the Sarum
Use and until the late nineteenth century in Paris and some
of the Norman dioceses. This is the source
of my information on the colours of the Parisian rite. For
the Sarum colours, I have depended on this Article
by Canon J. Robert Wright. I would be grateful for corrections
of any factual errors.
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Colour
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Sarum
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Paris (Rouen)
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Green, brown, grey, blue
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Ferias
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Red
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Sundays of the year outside of Lent
and Paschaltide. Feasts
of apostles, martyrs, and evangelists
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Maundy Thursday, Pentecost, Feasts
of Martyrs, Sundays after Pentecost if gold is not
available.
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Dull bull’s blood red (brown)
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Blessing of ashes on Ash Wednesday,
for all of Passiontide including Maundy Thursday and
Good Friday
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Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday
Vespers. Black with red orphreys
may be used.
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White
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Paschaltide,
from Easter Day through Pentecost, for feasts of Our
Lady and their octaves, for the feast of St. John
the Evangelist in Christmas week, for both feasts
of St. Michael, and for the Dedication of a Church.
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Christmas Eve to the Presentation
of Jesus in the Temple;
feasts of the Virgin Mary, Saint
Joseph, Non-martyr virgins,
Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Weddings, Baptism,
Funerals of infants.
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Yellow
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Feasts of confessors
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During the Epiphany Octave, Feasts
of the Holy Angels.
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Gold
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Trinity Sunday, the Blessed
Sacrement, From the Presentation
of Jesus in the Temple to
Septuagesima, Trinity to
Advent. Red
may be used
in its place.
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Black
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Masses of the Dead
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Blessing and imposition of the ashes
on Ash Wednesday, Masses of the Dead.
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Green
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Feasts of Pontiffs, Feast of the
Chair of Saint Peter, Consecration of Bishops.
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Violet
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Advent and Septuagesima, Feasts
of Holy Penitents (eg. Saint
Mary Magdalene), The administration of Extreme Unction.
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Blue
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Advent
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Feasts of Saint Joachim and Saint
Anne, Saint Louis
King of France,
Abbots, Monks and Just men and women, holy women.
Violet may be used in the place of blue.
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Grey
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Ash Wednesday to the Saturday preceding
Passion Sunday, Mass for the forgiveness of sins.
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Unbleached cloth (off white), brown,
green or violet.
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Lent, from Quadragesima
to the Saturday before Passion Sunday, and also in
Advent
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