Editing Liturgical colours (section)

==Lutheran Churches==
The [[United Lutheran Church in America]] (ULCA), a predecessor of The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] (ELCA), prescribed the following colour scheme for its paraments in the [[Common Service Book]] (CSB) of 1917: <br />

'''White''' from and with Vespers of the Eve of the Nativity through the Epiphany season (except the Day of St. Stephen, Martyr), from Easter Day to the Vespers of the Saturday before Whitsunday, on the Festival of the Transfiguration, on the Presentation of our Lord, on the Festival of the Holy Trinity and its Octave, on the Days of the Annunciation and the Visitation, and on the Day of St. Michael and All Angels. <br />

'''Red''' from and with Vespers on the Saturday before Whitsunday to the Vespers of the Saturday before the Festival of the Holy Trinity, on the Festival of the Reformation and the Sunday after, on the Apostles' Days and on all Evangelists' Days (excepting St. John, Apostle, Evangelist), on Martyrs' Days, on All Saints' Day, for the Dedication of a Church, for all Church Anniversaries, for the Harvest Festival, and on Thanksgiving Day. <br />

'''Green''' from and with Vespers of the Saturday before Septuagesima to Vespers of the day before Ash Wednesday, beginning with the second Sunday after the Festival of the Holy Trinity and throughout the Trinity Season to Vespers of the Saturday before Advent Sunday (except on such Festivals and Days for which there is a special appointment). <br />

'''Violet''' from and with Vespers of the Saturday before Advent to Vespers of the Eve of the Nativity, from and with Vespers of the day before Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent (excepting Good Friday) to Vespers of the Eve of Easter. <br />

'''Black''' for Good Friday and any Day of Humiliation called for by ecclesiastical authority.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church |url=https://acollectionofprayers.com/2017/01/01/common-service-book-of-the-lutheran-church/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=A Collection of Prayers--Christian prayers, ancient and modern |date=January 2017 }}</ref>  <br />

This differs from the Roman and Anglican Uses in that it has white prescribed for the Epiphany Season, green for the period from Septuagesima until Lent, violet for Maundy Thursday, red for All Saints' Day, red for the Dedication of a Church and its annual anniversary, and red also for the Harvest Festival and Thanksgiving Day.  One can presume that this is similar to the colour scheme historically used in the [[Evangelical Church in Germany|Protestant Church in Germany]] due to the heavy German influence in the ULCA.

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! style="text-align:center;"|Colour!! style="text-align:center;"|Common usage!! style="text-align:center;"|Other usage
|-
| style="background:white;"|White||
*Easter Sunday
*Epiphanytide
*Feast of the Transfiguration
*Feast of the Holy Trinity
*Feast of the Annunciation
*Feasts of Angels
||
*Maundy Thursday
|-
| style="background:red;"|Red||
*Vespers before Pentecost
*Feasts of martyrs
*Anniversaries
||
*[[Reformation Day]]
|-
| style="background:#88023c;"|<span style="color:white;">Scarlet</span>||
*Palm Sunday
*Holy Monday
*Holy Tuesday
*Holy Wednesday
*Maundy Thursday
||
|-
| style="background:green;"|Green||
*Pre-lenten season
*Trinity season
||
*When no other color is specified
|-
| style="background:violet;"|Violet||
*Advent
*Sundays of Lent
||
*Holy Monday
*Holy Tuesday
*Holy Wednesday
|-
| style="background:black;"|<span style="color:white;">Black</span>||
*Good Friday
||
*Ash Wednesday
*Days of humiliation
|-
| style="background:gold;"|Gold||
*Vigils before Easter
|
*Easter (in some places)
|-
| style="background:blue;"|<span style="color:white;">Blue</span>||
||
*Advent
|}

The ELCA presently uses a similar colour scheme as that of their Scandinavian Lutheran counterparts, with the use of gold only for the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday services and Holy Week using scarlet rather than crimson. Blue is used for Advent. White is used for Christmas, Epiphany, Sundays of Easter, Holy Trinity, and Christ the King. For Lent, purple is used. During the time after Pentecost and the Epiphany, green is used. <ref>{{Cite web |title=What is the meaning and use of liturgical colors? |url=https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/What_is_the_meaning_and_use_of_liturgical_colors.pdf |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=[[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]]}}</ref>

Both the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]] (LCMS) and the [[Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod]] (WELS) use a similar system, but with purple being the primary colour for both Advent and Lent (with blue being the alternate colour for Advent only), and the use of gold in place of white for both Christmas and Easter (in similar practice to the Catholic Church).  In the WELS, the use of red is also done during the ''Period of End Times'', a period of the Church regarding the teachings of the Book of Revelation, culminating in the creation of the New Jerusalem (corresponding to Christ the King in the ELCA). In all three churches, including the ELCA, red is also worn on the last Sunday of October, in celebration of the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] on October 31, when [[Martin Luther]] nailed the [[95 Theses]] onto the door of Wittenberg Castle Church.