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The liturgical colors White::is used during the Easter Season and at Christmas, for the feasts of Our Lady and the Saints who were not martyred. It is the color of joy, light and life. Green: is used during Ordinary Time. It represents the youth of the Church that has taken up a new life. Red: is used on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, on the feast of Pentecost, and when the Church celebrates the feast of the Holy Martyrs. It represents the gift of the Holy Spirit who enables us to bear witness to our own faith even to the point of martyrdom (the red color is also the color of blood). Purple: is used during Advent, Lent during Liturgies for the faithfully departed. It represents hope during our time of waiting until we meet Jesus. It also represents our spirit of penance. Black: is used from time to time for funerals and for celebrations in memory of the faithfully departed. 229