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Purple The Catholic Church uses different colors for different seasons and occasions during the Liturgical year White (or Silver) represents light, innocence, purity, joy, triumph, and glory:

• Season of Christmas

• Season of Easter

• Feasts of the Lord, other than of His passion

• Feasts of Mary, the angels, and saints who were not martyrs

• All Saints (1 November)

• Feasts of the Apostles

• Nuptial Masses (Weddings)

• Masses for the dead (Requiem Masses) when the deceased is a baptized child who died before the age of reason Red represents the Passion, blood, fire, God's Love, martyrdom:

• Feasts of the Lord's passion, Blood, and Cross

• Feasts of the martyrs

Palm Sunday

• Pentecost Green represents the Holy Ghost, life eternal, hope:

• Ordinary Time including

. • Time After Epiphany

. • Time After Pentecost Purple (or Violet) represents penance, humility, melancholy:

• Season of Advent

• Season of Lent

• Vigils except for Ascension and Pentecost

Good Friday Black represents mourning and sorrow:

• All Souls Day

• Masses for the dead (Requiem Masses), except for baptized children who've died before the age of reason Rose represents joy:

• Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent)

• Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent)

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