Where it is the custom, a rose chasuble is worn on the two Sundays when the violet of Advent and Lent lightens to rose: Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, and Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, both named for the first word of the day's entrance antiphon, Rejoice. The St. Ignatius of Antioch chasuble is cut in the monastic shape from rose silk dupioni, face and orphrey alike, and fully lined; the Rose Florence chasuble pairs the Florence brocade in rose with the Verona tapestry on its orphreys in a Gothic cut. A shaped wooden hanger for chasubles and copes is here too, because a vestment worn twice a year spends most of its life on a hanger.
Each chasuble is sewn to order in Baxter, Minnesota; the rose stoles in the same Florence brocade are in their own collection, and chalice veils and burses in the same rose fabrics can be made as a set. Before you order, tell us which Sunday you need it for.
Questions about rose vestments
Rose or pink?
Rose: a dusty, warm shade distinct from pink, permitted where it is the custom on these two Sundays in the Roman Rite and used widely by Anglicans and some Lutherans.
Monastic or Gothic?
Both are full chasubles; our monastic cut is a wider and longer variation of the Gothic. Either suits a rose set; choose the cut your other chasubles share.
