The Liturgical Colours of Palm Sunday

 

Shawn Tribe has one again a very useful and informative article on the Liturgical Arts Journal website about the changes between the 1950s and 1970s in the liturgical vestments and their colours for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. It can be seen at Palm Sunday: Variations in the Vestments and Their Colours in the Span of Fifteen Years

In it he links to two previous articles by him about two liturgical items of vesture which are guaranteed to set the pulses of some of us racing - the folded chasuble and the broad stole ( though as Shawn points out they are ultimately one and the same ). Both are very informative and are well illustrated. I am giving the links separately to make accessing these articles easier. From 2017 there is History and Designs of the Folded Chasuble on the Liturgical Arts Journal website, and from 2009 Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble from the New Liturgical Movement

I agree with Shawn Tribe in lamenting the abandonment of so longstanding a liturgical use, one that helped differentiate penitential seasons, and one that gave a special quality to the Liturgy. It has therefore been good on occasion in recent years to watch Masses following the pre-1955 norms online at this time of year and to see both the folded chasuble and the broad stole make a welcome reappearance at those TLMs.