9 V I II III IV V VI VII Palm Sunday Holy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday Easter Sunday Pentecost Holy Triniy Corpus Christi Sacred Hea t Ascension Nativiy of Saint John the Baptist Saints Peter and Paul Transiguration Assumption Exaltation of the Holy Cross Saint Joseph Annunciation 19 25 24 29 6 15 14 st October y Month of Joseph Month of Mary Month of the Rosary Month of the Sacred Heart March April May June August July er September Ordina ytime Easter y HolyWeek t What are the colors of the liturgical year? Finding your way through the liturgical year is easy: just look at the color the priest wears during Mass! DuringOrdinary Time, the color is green. Green is the color of life, of growing plants. Like a plant, the Christian’s heart grows throughout the year. During Advent and Lent, it is purple. Purple is a simple color; it can be dark and a little sad. That why it is well suited to Advent and Lent, which are times of preparation, penance, and conversion, when the Christian makes greater efforts to get closer to God. One specific Sunday during both seasons, the color is pink, to remind us of the joy that is soon to come: Christmas or Easter. At Christmas and Easter, the color is white, pure as light! For with his first coming and then with his Resurrection, Jesus won for us a great victory over the darkness of sin and death. And so we rejoice! At Pentecost, the color is red: it is the color of fire, of the Holy Spirit. It also appears on the feasts in honor of the apostles, evangelists, and martyrs—the Christians who died for their faith in Jesus.
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