![]() So, use more colors use both/and use a whole palette of colors to bring to life the worship in Ordinary Time. Green represents life, and life is colorful. Even if you are using green as a foundational color, there is no reason why you can’t bring in a host of other colors over the season. The season of Ordinary Time (or the Sundays after Pentecost-there is no “Pentecost Season”) calls for creativity and artistry. There are so many colors, so much beauty in worship art and God’s creation, why use only one color for this long season? Isn’t this the season after Pentecost? Why can’t we use red for at least a part of the season? We started here, however, because there are those who get bored with a single color in this long season that runs from Pentecost through Reign of Christ/Christ the King Sunday at the end of November. Perhaps you and your team can come up with some more and use them to inform the congregation who may never have given thought to why the green paraments are used throughout this season. There are other reasons why the season claims the color green. ![]() ![]() Green is the color of growth and of fruitfulness. ![]() This makes sense for lots of reasons: Ordinary Time is about growing in our faith, about accepting the gifts that we’ve been given, and producing the fruit not just as individual Christians but as the body of Christ. You can see listed here that the official color of the long season of Ordinary Time is green. Let’s start with a word about liturgical colors.
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