I had a rather bewildering conversation today.  Someone observed that they felt we should not use green as a colour for the drapes that denote the 'focus' for worship, or the table cloth for non-communion weeks, even though it is the 'right' liturgical colour for 'ordinary time'.  I think I would have been less puzzled had there been a general objection to liturgical colours being used in a protestant non-conformist church, but no, this objection was only about the use of green; purple, red and gold, which we use in appropriate season, were, it seems fine.

There are oodles of (well, several anyway) schemes of liturgical colours, but I have not found anything that can tell me how they were originally selected.  The only clue I've found is that green is sometimes associated with 'growth'.

So do any of my readers have any light to shed on the matter?  It would be helpful in explaining to this person why green might have been chosen in the first place.