* White is used for Pascha, Christmas, the Transfiguration and Theophany (color of purity and God's uncreated light)* Purple/Black for Lent (color of mourning and repentance)
* Green for Pentecost and feasts of the Holy Cross (color of plants and new life, renewal)
* Blue for feasts of the Theotokos and Salutation services in Lent(color of humanity, and also the heavens as we call Panagia's womb "More Spacious than the Heavens")
* Red for feasts of Martyrs, the Nativity fast, and also Pascha in some regions (color of martyrs blood, also color of divinity and royalty)
* Gold as the default (color of virtue)
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