At Mass the priest wore a white chasuble with a red cross on it.

[rug]

He should not have looked like a Crusader today.

[hedgehog]

1. He should have been in green for ordinary time.

:shrug:

White is reserved for special feasts, red for the Holy spirit and/or martyrs.

Here's a run down from a traditional site:

http://www.angelqueen.org/mass/vestments.shtml

Red cross on white doesn't compute at all!

[rug]

2. He sad the bishop authorized white for 9/11.

I don't know where the red cross came from.

[hedgehog]

3. Yeah - I could maybe see using the white, but the red cross on

the white sounds more like something our Episcopalian brethren might have.

[hedgehog]

4. I'm trying to think of which is worse - wearing it knowing the

connotations or wearing it not knowing?

I wonder if his ears were burning during the readings.

We had a priest who commemorated the event by permanently installing the US flag and papal flag at three entrances!