they aren’t supposed to have personalized messages, political messages/symbols, sports or patriotic related colors/symbols, or iron-on pictures of my children, etc). They are not supposed to be used for personal expression, but are supposed to be uniform within certain sacred design patterns. This is true of any uniform that we use in society. The basic idea of Anglican vestments is to symbolize order, office and role or function. Not all about them-that would be boring and, quite frankly, I’m not an expert-but just the basics that you can visibly see. Mostly just on Sundays! So, I’ll tell you about the vestments. But now I do know something about Anglican vestments, having worn them myself for almost 10 years. And after a few months, you notice that the colors are changing over the course of something called the church year… what’s up with all of this? So, like many of you, I was not sure why the robes, and I definitely wasn’t sure what they were for, and what to call them. In some places, you might see just the scarf-y thing without the white robes. Or you might be likely to see only the priest vested but not the other servers or the musicians. Sometimes you’ll see brightly colored material over the top of the white robes. If the parish has a Verger, they would wear a black cassock with a Vergers gown. A few lay people are wearing robes, and so is the choir. ( You can read more about my Anglican journey here.) You walk into an Anglican church and you see some ministers wearing white robes of some sort, with colorful scarf-like things around their necks, and some are diagonal. My only experience of robes was graduations-and that one time my dad wore a hilarious robe with colorful puffies glued onto it by a friend, as a joke.
I knew almost nothing about Anglican vestments when I first visited an Anglican church. This post about Anglican vestments first appeared on June 29, 2016.
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