![]() ![]() Statues were veiled in the Lenten White and throughout the season of Lent, a great veil of unbleached linen or sackcloth had hung between the altar and the choir in many places. Together, the Lenten White, charcoal and oxblood form “the Lenten array.” Orphries on the Lenten White were frequently done in charcoal black or oxblood red, the former sometimes looking like a dark blue and the latter often appearing as a brown or rust shade. “Tawny” or “ashen” are the terms that are used for these days in some calendars and yes, violet also sometimes appears. Lenten weekdays (and perhaps Sundays in some places), however, saw the use of the “Lenten White”: not albus or candidus - the bright white used on feasts of our Lord and of our Lady - but vestments of unbleached linen or sackcloth, which ranged from a pale cream shade to brown. Red was also used on the Sundays of Advent and those after Trinity Sunday, as well as the Sunday of Pentecost, the feasts of martyrs, Ash Wednesday and during all of Passiontide (the last two weeks of Lent, including both Maundy Thursday and Good Friday).* In short, red was the color for the better part of the liturgical year. In England (and here especially in the places influenced by the Sarum Use), red was the color appointed for the Sundays of Lent. It’s no secret that some of the local rites and uses of Northern Europe used a color other than violet for liturgical vesture during Lent.
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