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The Palmarian Catholic Church uses various liturgical colours, each with specific meanings, including violet for penance, white for purity, blue for the Virgin Mary, and rose for joy amidst suffering. Additional colours such as green symbolize hope, Carmelite for the order's feasts, black for the deceased, and red for the Holy Ghost and martyrs. These colours serve to enhance the spiritual significance of liturgical acts and encourage the practice of virtues among the faithful.

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Liturgical Colors 1

The Palmarian Catholic Church uses various liturgical colours, each with specific meanings, including violet for penance, white for purity, blue for the Virgin Mary, and rose for joy amidst suffering. Additional colours such as green symbolize hope, Carmelite for the order's feasts, black for the deceased, and red for the Holy Ghost and martyrs. These colours serve to enhance the spiritual significance of liturgical acts and encourage the practice of virtues among the faithful.

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The Liturgical Colours

The liturgical colours used in the Palmarian Catholic Church are violet, white, blue,
rose, green, Carmelite (brown and cream), black and red. The liturgical colours are
varied because each colour has its own meaning.

Violet is a symbol of the penance that


is required of us during Holy Lent and
at all times, the penance of submitting
to the Will of God, of renouncing our
own tastes, of renouncing our own
sinful will and submitting to the Law
and Will of God.

The colour white is always used in Eucharistic Celebrations, the Eucharistic


Procession, the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Hour, etc. The colour
white is a reflection of glory, and is also
used to indicate the purity we must
have to approach God and reach
Heaven, and in particular the purity we
must have in our soul to receive Holy
Communion. It is the appropriate
colour for the Sacred Host, because the
Sacred Host is also white, and we use
the colour white in Its honour.

Blue is the colour that corresponds to


the Most Holy Virgin Mary and Her
feast days. For many centuries, blue
was used as a liturgical colour in Spain
but not in other countries. This was a
privilege of the Spanish liturgy. Now
that the See of the Church is in Spain,
this colour has now been established
for the whole Church.

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In the past, the colour rose was used
only twice a year, once during Advent
and once during Holy Lent, to
indicate that we should be joyful even
in the midst of penance. This was the
former significance of the colour rose,
and it was used on the Sundays called
Gaudete y Laetare (be joyful) in the
old liturgy. These two Sundays were
in the middle of Holy Lent and
Advent, which were times of Penance, and they reminded us that we must carry the
cross with joy and that we should be joyful even in suffering. The truth is we have many
reasons to be joyful if we carry the cross, because if we look at things from God’s point
of view, or of those in Heaven, or of those who see things spiritually, we can see that
suffering in this life is actually what gives us the strength to follow Christ and Mary.

Today, the colour rose is primarily used for the feast days of Most Holy Joseph, because
just as the Most Holy Virgin has Her own colour which is blue, the colour of Holy
Patriarch Saint Joseph is rose. Rose is also used during the celebration of Holy Mass
for the Souls of Limbo. When a baby dies before being baptized, we know that it goes
to Limbo. In this case, the priest wears a pink cape for the funeral instead of black.

Another colour is green which signifies hope.


Green is used, for example, during Advent, when
we await the coming of the Saviour promised for
millennia. This colour signifies the hope we all
have of one day attaining eternal happiness. Green
is used for the Christmas Novena during Advent and
is also used for the Eternal Father.

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Another colour is Carmelite, which
was not previously used in the Church,
but now that the Pope is a Carmelite,
and the only religious order is that of
the Carmelites, there is a colour
specific to the Carmelite Order.
Above all, the Carmelite colour is used
for liturgical feasts related to the
Palmarian Church, such as Holy
Masses in honour of the Holy Face or
of Our Crowned Mother of Palmar, or in thanksgiving to the Holy Ghost and in
impetration of His Second Coming, among other feast days.

The colour black is used for the faithful departed,


although in the past it was also used in the liturgy
on other occasions, such as during Holy Week to
commemorate the Passion and Death of Our Lord
Jesus Christ.

Black is used for the dead. What does this mean?


It means darkness for us, because in this life we
cannot see where souls go. We hope that they attain
eternal glory. We know that many, very many of
those who die go to Purgatory and we remember
them in case they are in that darkness. This is the
reason we pray for the Souls in Purgatory, because
they suffer and do not see God. That is the darkness
that they experience, of not seeing God, who is the
Eternal Light, the Beatific Light that they long for. The colour black reminds us of this
so we can seek to relieve them of this darkness with our prayers and bring them eternal
happiness, the Eternal Light, because only we, the members of the Church Militant, can
do that. The colour black is used on the 25th of March in commemoration of Good
Friday, for the Feast Day of the Faithful Departed on the 2nd of November, and also for
the Masses celebrated for the Holy Souls of Purgatory.

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Red is the colour of blood and fire. That is
why it is used in the first place for the Holy
Ghost, and also for the Martyrs and for
certain Feast Days of Our Lord, especially
those related to His Sacred Passion and His
Most Precious Blood, among others. Every
last Sunday of the month, Holy Mass is
celebrated in reparation to the Holy Ghost,
and red is the colour used. Red is also used
for the administration of the Holy
Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation.

Liturgical acts and colours should also encourage us to practise the virtues, and to be
attentive to the festivities that are celebrated in the Church. Because on different feast
days, principally on the Feasts of the Most Holy Trinity, of the Eternal Father, of the
Holy Ghost, of Our Divine Lord, of the Most Holy Virgin Mary and of Saint Joseph,
the graces that the members of the Church receive are even more abundant.

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