The Colours of the Church Year

Diocesan Education Team

Christ the King

Advent

Christmas Day

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Pentecost

Christmas

The Colours of the Church Year

A guide for schools 2021 - 2022

Epiphany

Ordinary Time

Easter Lent

Easter Sunday

Maundy Thursday*

Palm Sunday & Holy Week

The Colours of the Church Year: a guide for schools 2021-22

Diocesan Education Team

The Anglican Church Year Anglican churches follow a liturgical calendar. This is a pattern for their worship (liturgy) through the year. As a church school, this provides an ideal opportunity to mirror what is happening in your parish / local church. It also provides a colourful and visual way to mark the festivals throughout the year.

Most churches will use different coloured vestments (a priest's clothing) and altar cloths as signs of the season of the church year. In school this can mirrored through simply changing the colour of cloth on the worship table, or theme a whole display using the relevant colours. Soon you will find that the children recognise the colours and their meaning, that when they enter the worship space they will notice the colours have changed and begin to make links between the seasons and the festivals throughout the year.

The meaning of the colours (dates are coloured on the attached calendar)

Green Red

White Gold

Used during `Ordinary time' between the main festivals and seasons. This covers most of the year and can represent growth.

Used to either mark saints' days where it represents their death as a martyr, or to represent the flames of the Holy Spirit (for Pentecost / Whitsun). Represents being pure, in celebrations such as baptisms, weddings, and some funerals. Also used for celebrations either on its own or with gold. It is also used for saints who did not die as martyrs.

Key celebrations, for example Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.

Purple Used for times of preparation and waiting, the reflective seasons. Key times are Advent and Lent.

The Liturgical Calendar The attached calendar is designed for the school year 2021-22. The church year starts at the beginning of Advent, and ends with the following Advent, completing a circle as shown on the front page. The colours used in worship are shown on the relevant days, any uncoloured dates are `white' days. There are twelve principal feast and holy days in the church year, these are indicated in bold on the calendar. The main saints' days are also shown, but you do not need to mark all of them. If you use the main colour for the week, you can then pick out the key festivals for your school, especially those that mark a key part in Jesus's life or a transition in the year. You could also celebrate the patron saint's day for your school and / or church. Key festivals such as Christmas and Easter, fall in the holidays, meaning the children don't get to see the gold cloth for celebrations. A good way to mark these festivals would be to change the colour of the cloths as part of your end of term worship for Christmas and Easter.

The Colours of the Church Year: a guide for schools 2021-22

Diocesan Education Team

*On Maundy Thursday churches will often be stripped bare of any colour furnishings and decorations, reminding us that Jesus was left alone to face the bare wooden cross. Churches will remain bare until Eater Sunday. You can download daily prayers and reading apps from to support your worship planning. ** Candlemas is also known as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

September 2021

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Holy Cross Day

October 2021

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November 2021 December 2021

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All Saints' Day All Souls' Day

Remembrance Day Remembrance Sunday

1 Wed

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5 Sun

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2nd Sunday in Advent

3rd Sunday in Advent

January 2022

1 Sat

2 Sun

3 Mon

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Naming of Christ

The Epiphany Baptism of Jesus

February 2022

1 Tue

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Candlemas**

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Diocesan Education Team

September 2021

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St Matthew Michaelmas

October 2021

November 2021

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St Luke the Evangelist

St Simon & St Jude

16 Tue

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22 Sun

22 Mon

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25 Thu

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28 Sun

29 Mon

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Christ the King

1st Sunday in Advent St Andrew

December 2021

January 2022

16 Thu

17 Fri

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19 4th Sunday in Advent Sun

20 Mon

21 Tue

22 Wed

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Christmas Eve

Fri

25 Christmas Day Sat

26 Sun

27 St Stephen's Day Mon

28

St John the

Tue

Evangelist

29 Wed

Holy Innocents

30 Thu

31 Fri

16 Sun

17 Mon

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Conversion of St Paul

February 2022

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March 2022

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3 Thu 4 Fri 5 Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon

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Shrove Tuesday / St David

Ash Wednesday

1st Sunday in Lent

2nd Sunday in Lent

St Patrick Joseph of Nazareth 3rd Sunday of Lent

April 2022

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2 Sat

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5th Sunday of Lent

Palm Sunday Holy Week Holy Week Holy Week

Maundy Thursday* Good Friday Holy Saturday Easter Day

May 2022

June 2022

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St Philip & St James St Matthias the Apostle

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Corpus Christi Pentecost

St Barnabas Trinity Sunday

July 2022

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St Thomas the Apostle

August 2022

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The Transfiguration Blessed Virgin Mary

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