What are the proper colors of vestments for each season?
The clergy wear two kinds of robes, non-liturgical and liturgical. The non-liturgical robes are the ordinary daily clothing of the clergy, worn underneath ‘liturgical robes’. Liturgical robes, or ‘vestments’, are worn during church services. The non-liturgical robes are called cassocks (Greek rason, Slavonic podriasnik) and outer cassocks (Greek exo-rason, Slavonic riasa). Cassocks are floor-length garments which have long sleeves fitted like shirt sleeves. Outer cassocks are also floor-length garments, but they’re more loosely fitting, with very large sleeves. In the Russian tradition, because monastic clergy wear dark colored cassocks (usually black, dark blue, or dark brown) and married clergy wear whatever color cassocks they have (often lighter colors), they’re referred to as black clergy and white clergy. The practice of wearing colored cassocks comes from the times called Turkocratia, the Turkish rule, or ‘Turkish yoke’. Moslem clergy reserved the right to wear white or black to
