Celebrating 100 years
- Clustered Worship Sites:
Christ the King
St. Salome
St. Thomas the Apostle - Individual Worship Sites:
St. Cecilia
St. Margaret Mary - Irondequoit Catholic Communities:
Regional Mass Schedule
Regional Calendars
Irondequoit Senior Ministries
Vestments are the liturgical clothing worn by the clergy in celebration of the liturgy of the Church, especially the Eucharist and the other sacraments. Ordinarily, a person possesses a range of clothes which are appropriate to various situations and functions: "good" clothes for special events and others for sports, work, etc. However, in the case of vestments, since the situation and function is that of the worship of God, the quality must always be of the best. Just as with other items used in worship, liturgical vesture should reflect a sense of beauty, quality and appropriateness. Beauty and quality need not mean ornateness, and what is appropriate would be determined by the liturgical action involved as well as the overall style of the church in which the vestments are used.
The vestments use by the priest are: stole, alb and chasuble. Vestments used by the deacon are: stole, alb and dalmatic. The cincture, or rope worn about the waist is optional. The stole has from earliest times been considered the distinguishing mark of those in holy orders (deacons, priests, bishops). It is worn about the neck by the priest and bishop and across the shoulder by the deacon. The alb is the full-length white robe worn over "street" clothes and under the chasuble or dalmatic. The chasuble and dalmatic is the full garment worn over the alb. The chasuble is normally cut in a oval shape while the dalmatic is cut with straight lines and sleeves. The chasuble and dalmatic are of various colors depending on liturgical season:
- White - for seasons and feasts of joy and celebration. White expressed light and divinity. White is also associated with the new or the renewed, the innocent, the virginal.
- Green - is for Sundays of Ordinary Time (the Sundays of the year). Green is the color of leaves, growing things, thus representing earthly and eternal life. It symbolized hope, the eternal spring which revives us through our faith and through the Sacraments.
- Purple - the penitential season of Lent and for the season f Advent.
- Red - for feasts of the Holy Spirit and the celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation. Red is the color also used for the feasts of the Apostles and Martyrs, and for Good Friday. Red is the color of blood, that is, life. Red thus symbolized the love of God, even to martyrdom. Red is also th ecolor of flame, burning love of the divine Spirit.
