[NYer]

Survey: What color did the priest officiating at your Christmas Mass wear?

Once again, our 'pastor' went all out to celebrate the Midnight Mass at 7pm on Christmass Eve. The altar sported a floor length red altar cloth with embroidered panels hanging down (and a small white handkerchief for the chalice). He was dressed in red! Later that night, I watched the mass from the National Cathedral in Washington where everyone was vested in white. On Christmas day, I watched the bishop's (prerecorded) mass. He too was dressed in white.

According to all of my research, corroborated by this response at EWTN, the proper vestment color for the Midnight Mass is white. Reading through the EWTN response, there is that exception posted at #7.

My question to all of you - what color vestments did your priest wear at whichever Christmas you attended?

[findingtruth]

I attended Mass two weeks ago in a parish of the Milwaukee Archdiocese. Blue banners adorned the whole inside of the sanctuary, and the priest's vestments were blue. Really in-your-face disobedience. On the positive side though, the kneelers had been replaced.

[B Knotts]

White and gold, with some blue mixed with the gold.

[polemikos]

GIRM 2003
http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/revmissalisromanien.htm

Vestments
GIRM 2003, Ch 6, Sec IV
http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/chapter6.htm

fyi (same info as above)

[maestro]

Catholic Vestment Colors .....'New Homeland Security Color Threat Levels'.....??

:-)

[VermiciousKnid]

Ours wore white, with beautiful hand-embroidery on it (predominantly red, but with many other colors and gold shot through it). It looked very old and it was a most welcome change from the normal polyester-and-felt vestments that are usually worn.

Regards,