Catholic Vestments | Clergy Apparel & Liturgicals

Catholic Vestments | Clergy Apparel & Liturgicals

Cathoclic Priest and altar boy vestments | Catholic cloth and garments | Clergy apparel & liturgicals

Sale of liturgical vestments, priestly vestments and other religious vestments, used in the Liturgy: chasubles, albs, tunics, stoles, cassocks... Buy online priestly clothing, vestments and other religious vestments at the best price. The services of our online store include home delivery, payment by card or Paypal, ...

Liturgical vestments are those vestments used by priests and other Catholic Church ministers as a street habit (civil habit), during the Eucharist, processional outings, ... They also include textile products used to adorn pulpits, lecterns, table of altar, … and other cloths used during the Eucharist. For example, within the category of parish ornaments, you can add to your shopping cart lectern cloths, altar tablecloths, altar linen, casubles, Marian palls, albs, banners, ...

Some of these religious vestments and articles, such as chasubles or stoles, are typical of priests and will be called catholic vestments. Others of these religious ornaments can be used by other people, such as robes for altar boys or dalmatics for deacons. The Holy Mother Church establishes that people, depending on their hierarchical degree, can wear each of the ornaments.

The colors of these liturgical accessories vary depending on the specific moment within the liturgical year. In this way, the faithful, at first glance, can perceive the meaning of the celebration, procession, or mass to which they attend. On certain dates of the liturgical calendar, more solemn days are celebrated, such as Holy Week or Lent (mainly purple ornaments); or of a more cheerful nature such as Christmas (white ornaments), etc... Each product, and each color, has a very important symbolic function.

 

White Catholic vestments

White liturgical vestments express joy, peace and light. That is why they are used during Easter and Christmas, and those feasts of the Lord not related to his Passion. It is also used in the festivals in honor of the Holy Mary, of the Saints and Saints who were not martyrs (without shedding blood) and in those of the holy Angels and Archangels.

In addition to the vestments for priests that change during the different celebrations of the Liturgical Year, there is a garment that is characterized by its white color. The albs are garments worn by priests, parish priests and altar boys. The alb is a talar tunic, which reaches to the heels, with long and wide sleeves. The white (or beige) priestly alb symbolizes self-denial, chastity and serves as a reminder to the person who wears it that he must do good deeds throughout his life. The liturgical alb is one of the products that our customers add to their shopping cart most frequently.

 

Purple Catholic vestments

Purple religious accessories and vestments symbolize spiritual preparation. The purple vestments are liturgical garments that are used in the seasons of Advent and Lent and in penitential acts. The purple color is a representation of the humility and penance with which we Catholics must face life and death. The liturgical vestments represent sobriety and the purpose of amendment.

The purple ornaments are related to moments and celebrations of a penitential nature, of acknowledgment of sins and interior reflection to value, in its proper measure, the hope of eternal life that Christ gave us with his Passion, Death and Resurrection. The first, second and fourth Sunday of Advent, during Lent and Holy Week, mass for a deceased,... are some of the times when the priest wears a chasuble and a purple stole. Lectern cloths are usually purple as well.

 

Red Catholic vestments

The color red is the color of blood. Red liturgical vestments are used on the feasts of the Lord's Passion: Passion Sunday and Good Friday. Red religious products are also often used in the Holy Spirit festivities and in the festivities of the Saints and Holy Martyrs. Chasubles, girdles and red stoles are also often worn at mass on the birthdays of the Apostles and Evangelists.

In addition to these liturgical products, the color red is also often used to make embroideries linked to the figure of Santa María, Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, etc. Especially tablecloths or lectern cloths dedicated to the figure of the Virgen del Carmen (Marian clothing) or any of the Saints mentioned can be decorated with red roses. For example, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus carries red roses in her hand.

 

Green Catholic vestments

The green color symbolizes hope. Green liturgical vestments are worn during ordinary time, on Sundays and days where no other color is required, after Christmas through Lent, and after Easter through Advent.

What is known as Ordinary Time occupies a large fraction of the Liturgical Year. During mass and other celebrations, the priests and ministers of the Church usually wear green products.

In addition, the green color has a wide representation in the embroidery and decorations of tablecloths, raincoat, altar cloths, processional canopies, banners, corporals, canopy, lectern covers, dress, etc... The green color is usually seen on the stems and embroidered or patterned vine leaves on the ornaments that decorate the altars of our churches and cathedrals.

 

Golden color religious ornaments

The golden liturgical vestments are used on dates of special solemnity such as Midnight Mass and Easter Sunday. Gold-colored garments are usually worn on rare occasions. Especially the totally gold-colored garments. The Pope, the Holy Father, makes use of chasubles of golden color when he has to celebrate the opening of great events such as the World Youth Day, the Holy Years, ...

Gold garments are usually garments made with high-quality fabrics such as Italian silk, wool, lurex, etc... On many occasions, gold is combined with white or other colors. For example, a golden chasuble but with a white central stolon.

Although the color gold (the golden color) is not widely used as a fabric in the making of liturgical garments, it is a very characteristic tone in the accessories that decorate the vestments for mass and processional outings. The chasubles usually have a gold trim all around the gold color, some even have a edging trim. Altar tablecloths, palls, altar cloths, stoles, dresses for figures, canopies, humeral, banners,... have gold-colored embroidery. Copes are usually finished off with metal snaps or closures, fringes, and gold-colored embroidery. The most classic embroideries in gold are the letters JHS, the chalices, the ears of wheat, ...

 

Blue Catholic vestments

Blue religious vestments are used in Spain on the day of the Immaculate Conception, December 8. The privilege of wearing blue ornaments was granted to the members of the Spanish Church in the year 1858. Year in which the Holy See accepts the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and recognizes the extraordinary work done by the state, kings and Church Spanish throughout history defending and promoting the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

Blue religious ornaments are also often used in other celebrations linked to the Virgin Mary.

The high quality of the textile garments makes it very beautiful, but it is worth highlighting the Marian chasubles with embroidered stolons and made of damask or brocaded fabrics. They are garments that have become very popular among our buyers and buyers.

 

Black Catholic vestments

Black symbolizes mourning, pain. Black religious vestments are usually used in masses for the dead. It is a rarely used color and is often replaced by purple altar garments and accessories. The color black is traditionally not part of the set of basic ornaments available in a church or cathedral.

Normally, the set of chasubles, stoles, lectern cloths, girdles, .... is usually made up of purple, green, white and purple products. To a lesser extent, by ornaments in pink and blue.

 

Pink Catholic vestments

The pink liturgical vestment is used by the ministers of the Church in the liturgical celebrations of the third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete, and the fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare.

Celebrating the Gaudete or Laetare mass using clothing and ornaments to decorate the altar in pink is an option that is finding more and more followers among priests. The pink color is used on these two dates as a symbol of joy due to the proximity of two joyful events.

On the one hand, the third Sunday of Advent celebrates the joy of approaching Christmas, the Birth of Our Lord Jesus. The arrival of the Son of God, one more year, fills all Catholics with hope and joy. During Advent we reflect on our mistakes and our sins to prepare our body and soul for the arrival of the Child Jesus. The countdown that represents Advent is reflected in the Advent wreath with the four candles, one for each Sunday. There are different versions of Advent wreaths, but one of the most popular is the one with four purple candles and one pink candle. The pink candle is lit on the third Sunday of Advent. It is a date of major between the solemnity and Reflection of the other days of Advent.

The fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare, is also a date of great joy. The textile ornaments worn by the priest and decorate the altars and pulpits of the churches are dyed in shades of pink. Resurrection Sunday is approaching, the Passion of Our Savior is near. Christ is going to sacrifice himself for the forgiveness of the sins of all men and women. The end of darkness is approaching, the light of the Paschal Candle will once again illuminate the temples to announce the good news.