Roman Catholics and some protestants use them that way. Not all. Some totally ignore their traditional significations.
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Roman Catholics and some protestants use them that way. Not all. Some totally ignore their traditional significations.
To be clear, I didn't say all Protestants. My point was that the colours have the same significance for both; there are "Catholic colours" and "Protestant colours".
Many of the "mainline" denominations use liturgical colours in some form or other, though it can vary church-by-church within the same denomination.
In our Catholic parish we show up one Sunday and the trappings have been changed, there's nothing more to it.
However a local Presbyterian church has a special service to mark the beginning of Advent, during which a guy ceremoniously removes the Pastor's green stole and puts on a purple one, and the trappings are changed, while music plays.
Indeed not all Catholic churches have that stuff- there's one here that just meets in a portable, there are no trappings, vestments, pews, organ, choir, or altar (communion is done with a folding table). You never know!
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