Green Ordinary Time Chasuble with Celtic Cross and Jerusalem Cross Embroidery

Green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the long stretches of the year between the Christmas season and Lent, and between Pentecost and Advent. That makes it the colour worn on more Sundays than any other, which is why most sacristies keep more than one green set.

It is not worn on feasts and solemnities falling within Ordinary Time, which take white, red or gold according to the day.

The two interlaced crosses on the front orphrey are Celtic crosses, the ringed form that came out of Ireland and Northumbria and is filled here with the knotwork of that tradition.

The cross on the back is a Jerusalem cross: one large cross potent with four smaller crosses in its quarters, long associated with the Holy Land and, by common reading, with the Gospel carried out to the four corners of the earth. Below the front crosses a chalice and host rise from sheaves of wheat, the Eucharist the chasuble is worn to celebrate.

Yes. The gothic chasuble and the green of Ordinary Time are common to Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist and Old Catholic use, and the Celtic and Jerusalem crosses carry no confessional claim of their own.

Some traditions call the same season by another name, such as the Sundays after Pentecost or after Trinity. The vestment is the same; only the calendar differs.

It is a standing or cowl collar, cut and stiffened so the neckline stands up rather than lying flat, and embroidered here with a gold vine that continues the pattern of the orphrey.

It gives the shoulders a cleaner line over the alb and keeps the neckline from slipping backwards during Mass. If you prefer a plain flat neckline instead, choose Made to Measure and say so in the notes.

For most wearers a standard size chosen on height is right, since a chasuble is wide and unfastened. Use the size guide on this page and take the row your height falls in.

Choose Made to Measure if you fall outside the ranges given, if you want a particular hem length, or if you want the garment to sit differently over the arms. The measurement fields appear as soon as you select it. Made to Measure is priced the same as Extra Large.

Dry clean only, and mention the metallic-thread embroidery to the cleaner. A pale orphrey on a dark ground shows marks sooner than an all-over colour, so deal with anything on it promptly rather than letting it set.

Hang the chasuble on a broad padded hanger in a vestment press or garment bag, keep it out of direct sunlight, and press only from the reverse with a cloth between the iron and the cloth.