Liturgical Colours

Liturgical Colours

Green

• Sundays and Ferias in Ordinary Time

*Feria is a day on which no saint is celebrated

Violet

• Sundays and Ferias in Advent

• Sundays and Ferias in Lent

• Liturgies on Holy Saturday (except for the Easter Vigil)

• All Souls' Day

• Requiem Masses and offices for the dead

• Sacrament of Reconciliation

• Sacrament of the Sick

Rose

• Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent)

• Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent)

White

• Christmastide (from Christmas Day to the Baptism of the Lord)

• Holy Thursday

• Easter season (from the Easter Vigil to the Vigil of Pentecost)

• Feasts of Our Lord other than those of His Passion

• Feasts of Our Lady[2]

• Feasts of the Angels

• Feasts of non-martyred saints or confessors

• Feast of St. John

• Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter

• Feast of the Conversion of Paul the Apostle

• The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

• Feast of All Saints

• Sacrament of Baptism

• Sacrament of Matrimony

• Sacrament of Holy Orders

Red

• Palm Sunday

• Good Friday

• Pentecost

• Feasts of the Passion of the Lord

• Feasts of Martyrs, Apostles, and Evangelists

• Sacrament of Confirmation

Black

• All Souls' Day where this is an established custom.

• Requiem Masses and offices for the dead where this is an established custom.