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By Jack Figge, National Catholic Register, March 4, 2025
Jack Figge is a freelance journalist covering the Catholic Church. He is a political science and theology student in Benedictine College’s Class of 2026.
As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season.
For 40 days every Lenten season, purple linens adorn the altar, and priests don violet chasubles for Mass and Stations of the Cross services. Behind the practices, traditions and liturgies of Lent are a wealth of spiritual traditions and theological reasons for this 40-day spiritual journey that Catholics enter into as a period of fasting and penance to prepare to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord.
Royal Hue
While the Alleluia and Gloria may disappear after Ash Wednesday, the purple (violet is the preferred term) appears for altar cloths and vestments, as it “denotes affliction and melancholy” according to The Catholic Encyclopedia. …
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