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Colors
Color plays a large part in everyday life. Naturally, it also plays a significant part in the Church. Various colors reflect various emotions (for example, red tends to remind us of danger or anger). Here's a quick reference for what some colors may be used to represent.| Black | Seen on Good Friday and at funerals, this color is typically used to represent mourning or death. | |
| Blue | While this color can represent Heaven and Heavenly love, it's also associated with the Virgin Mary. It may also be used in place of Violet during Advent. | |
| Brown | While black represents the physical death, brown represents spiritual death and rejection of the world. | |
| Gray | The color of ashes signifies mourning or humility. | |
| Green | Since it's the color of healthy plants, it's not surprising this is used to represent nature, hope or life. It's also traditionally used as the color of the vestments on days that aren't a special church holiday. | |
| Red | The color of blood, this can represent anything from fiery zeal to love as well as fire and blood. Red is also the color of vestments during Pentecost. | |
| Violet (or purple) | Representing remorse for sin, this color is often seen during Lent. | |
| White | The antonym of black, white represents joy and purity. It's frequently the color used at joyous occasions like weddings or during Christmastide. | |
| Gold | The color of one of the most precious of metals, gold represents divinity and sacredness. | |
| Pale Gold | If the color gold is shown paled, it instead means betrayal or deceit. |
