The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . also the impeding inconvenience of the earlychasuble. (c) The custom of discarding the dalmatic onpenitential days began in Rome, and by thetwelfth century the custom was universal. Onsuch days the deacon either had no vestment overthe alb, or put on instead the so-called planetaplicata (folded chasuble) of a dark hue. Theonly exception was Maundy Thursday whenfestal vestments were worn. In early times thedalmatic was rarely worn at requiem Masses, andit is only since the end of the Middle Age
The mass and vestments of the Catholic church, liturgical, doctrinal, historical and archaeological . also the impeding inconvenience of the earlychasuble. (c) The custom of discarding the dalmatic onpenitential days began in Rome, and by thetwelfth century the custom was universal. Onsuch days the deacon either had no vestment overthe alb, or put on instead the so-called planetaplicata (folded chasuble) of a dark hue. Theonly exception was Maundy Thursday whenfestal vestments were worn. In early times thedalmatic was rarely worn at requiem Masses, andit is only since the end of the Middle Ages its usehas become general in solemn Masses for the dead. 478 The Mass and Vestments Within Advent and Lent the usage now demandseither the folded chasuble for deacon and sub-deacon or the alb without dalmatic. What is the Symbolic Significancy of theChasuble? It is an emblem of charity which clothes thesoul as the vestment envelops the body. In assum-ing the chasuble the celebrant says: 0 Lord,who hast said: My yoke is sweet and my burdenlight/ grant that I may so carry it as to meritThy RUSSIAN GREEK VESTMENTS CHAPTER XLI. COLOR OF VESTMENTS. What was the Original Color of Vestments? In the oldest representations of ecclesiastics, towhich we have access, their vestments were purewhite ornamented with clavi (stripes); thesewere generally black, though St. Isidore refers topurple clavi. Previous to the tenth century,colored vestments are discernible in mosaics andfresco-paintings, but the combination of colorsis so peculiar as to suggest a color-effect ofartists to distinguish the various vestments fromthe background, and from each other. BenedictXIV, however, whilst affirming that vestmentswere white down to the beginning of the fourthcentury, also says that in that and succeedingcenturies the practice developed of using a di-versity of colors, as is demonstrated in monumentsearlier than the seventh century. \fyho First Mentions Colored Vestment*?Pope Innocent III in
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