6/2/06

My husband is a server at his local church and a member of the GSS and he is having great trouble finding a purple cassock online for Lent and Advent. Any ideas, please?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Mrs C Harlow

REPLIES

Ben Heffer - 7/2/06

The cassock is an under garment and is not used to denote the colour of the season; the priest's vestments do that. Some might think that only a bishop wears a purple cassock; a Queen's canon, a red cassock, &c. In churches where it is the tradition for servers to use coloured cassocks, they usually revert to black ones during Advent and Lent and at Requiems.

Ben Heffer

St Birinus, Oxford 

Dave - 7/2/06

Try e-bay

Dave

Wilfred Reynolds - 21/2/06

J & M Sewing Service Ltd. can provide a cassock in an assortment of colours including Dark Purple (Violet) or Light Purple. I had a new cassock and surplice from them last week, beautifully made and efficient service as always.

Wilfred Reynolds 
Ottery St Mary Parish Church 
www.otterystmary.org.uk 
Chapter of the Holy Nativity, Devon