Violet

(Purple)

Advent, Lent , Funerals, All Souls (Optional for the two)

Sorrow, mourning, royalty, repentance, penance

Black

All Souls Day, Funerals (Optional)

Mourning and death

Rose

Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Lent) (Violet could be used Optional). Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday Advent) (Violet could be used Optional)

Subdued joy

Ritual Masses are celebrated in their proper colours in white, or in festive colour. Masses for various needs and occasions are celebrated in colours proper to the day