E SACRIFICE OF THE MASS

THE COLOURS OF THE VESTMENTS. 21
when it falls on a Sunday, and always for its octave,
for the Finding and Exaltation of the Cross, for
Martyrs, and for all the feasts of the Passion.
Green is worn on the Sundays and Ferias after the
Epiphany to Septuagesima, and from the octave of
Pentecost to Advent on which no festival occurs
(except the Sundays within octaves, which follow the
rule of the festival).
Violet, which is the penitential colour, is worn in
the penitential times of Advent and Lent, upon Vigils,
and on the feast of Holy Innocents.
Black is used on Good Friday and in Masses for
the Dead.