We had a visiting priest from Mt. Saint Mary’s 2 weekends ago, he wore a blue vestment with a gold crown on the chest.
My eleven year old son picked up on the fact that the vestment was blue and that this was not a common color for celebrating the Mass.
I have to admit that I gave it no second thought, I told him it was May, which is the month of Mary. The color was a tribute to the Blessed Mother.
Colors of the Liturgical Year
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Green - Ordinary Time |
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Violet - Advent & Lent, Mass for Life, Funerals (optional) |
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Red - Passion, Holy Spirit, Martyrs, Pentecost, Confirmation |
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White - Easter & Christmas, Feasts of Our Lord & non-martyrs, Funerals (opt.) (o |
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Rose - 3rd Sunday of Advent and 4th Sunday of Lent (optional) |
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Black - Funerals (optional) Masses for the Dead and All Souls (optional) |
For more detail, see What about Blue? Vestment colors from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal