Monday, February 07, 2005
Orange?
We've been asked "Why so much orange? That isn't a liturgical color."
That's really one of the reasons that orange is the color of Postmodern Liturgy. It shows us that the received tradition is incomplete. We want the whole rainbow (and then some) to be represented. Many of us advocate the use of Blue in Advent and of Earth Tones in Lent. Orange shows us as separate and unique.
Orange also is the color of some who seek to change the church, if not in exactly the same way as us, but it is a mark of "otherness".
Lastly, the template came that way and we're just not that techy.
That's really one of the reasons that orange is the color of Postmodern Liturgy. It shows us that the received tradition is incomplete. We want the whole rainbow (and then some) to be represented. Many of us advocate the use of Blue in Advent and of Earth Tones in Lent. Orange shows us as separate and unique.
Orange also is the color of some who seek to change the church, if not in exactly the same way as us, but it is a mark of "otherness".
Lastly, the template came that way and we're just not that techy.
