[Magdalen] Rose is a Rose.

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Mon Mar 7 13:17:53 UTC 2016


On 07/03/2016 04:20, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Sarum is mostly heard now to describe the blue that is used during Advent which is actually a particular color of blue but one which is not always used. However Sarum is more importantly a Rite that existed during a given era of time in the church ( pre reformation I think)

I think you are right.  As I understand it a number of cathedrals had 
their own rite abd then the Council of Trent developed what was intended 
as a universal rite (Tridentine) to stress the unity of the Church in 
the Counter-Reformation.

> which also called for the use of a sackcloth color for Lent which has a specific name I can't recall just now. In our time some priests want the latter if blue is desired for Advent. I've not before heard about the rose color specifically attached to the Sarum Rite. This Rite may have been associated with or begun by the great cathedral at Salisbury which was once a community named Sarum.

Roger, who trained in Salisbury.



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