Advent • The season of four weeks of waiting for the birth our Lord Jesus Christ. Christmas• The Feast of the birth our Lord Jesus Christ.• Also known as Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.• Christmas ends with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Lent • Begins with Ash Wednesday and ends on Palm Sunday.• Emphasis on fasting, prayer and almsgiving• Call to repentance and conversion.• Fasting and abstinence for Ash Wednesday.

Holy Week• Also known as Holy Triduum (Triduum means three days)• Comprises Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday.• Fasting and abstinence on Good Friday

Easter • Celebrates the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. • Begins on Easter Sunday and ends with Pentecost. Ordinary Time• Derives its name from “ordinal”, meaning "numbered," since the Sundays of Ordinary Time are expressed numerically.• Comprises up to 34 weeks; the larger part of the liturgical year.• Basically all parts of the year that does not fall within Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.

Liturgical ColoursLiturgical colours are colours of vestments and church decorations within a Christian liturgy and they play a very significant role in our Catholic faith. The Catholic Church goes through a cycle of a liturgical year, in which the Church celebrate and partake in a particular aspect of Christ's life. The symbolism of purple, white, green, red, gold, black, and rose serves to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or highlight a special occasion.

“The purpose of a variety in colour of the sacred vestments is to give effective expression even outwardly to the specific character of the mysteries of faith being celebrated and to a sense of Christian life’s passage through the course of the liturgical year.” – GIRM 345

White

lightinnocencepurityjoytriumphglory

Season of ChristmasSeason of EasterFeasts of the Lord, other than of His passionFeasts of Mary, the angels, and saints who were not martyrsAll Saints (1 November)Feasts of the ApostlesNuptial MassesMasses for the dead (Requiem Masses) when the deceased is a baptised child who died before the age of reason

Note: White is the colour of Popes' non-liturgical dress. White can be replaced by Silver.

RED

the PassionbloodfireGod's Lovemartyrdom

Feasts of the Lord's passion, Blood, and Cross (including Good Friday)Feasts of the martyrs (including the Apostles and Evangelists except for St John)Palm SundayPentecost

Note: Red is the colour of Cardinals' non-liturgical dress

GREEN

the Holy Ghostlife eternalhope Ordinary Time

Violet

penancehumilitymelancholy

Season of AdventSeason of Lent

Note: violet, literally "amaranth red," is the colour of Bishops', Archbishops', and Patriarchs' non-liturgical dress

BLACK mourningsorrow

All Souls DayMasses for the dead (Requiem Masses), except for baptised children who have died before the age of reason

ROSE

joy

Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent)Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent)

GOLD

joy Gold can replace white, red, or green (but not purple or black)