He said they were salmon colored, so he didn't wear them.
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That's funny. My old priest in the SSPX also refused to wear the Rose vestments. The reason he gave was because they were the wrong color. He said they were pink and not rose. To him they were supposed to be "salmon colored."
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I hate to say something bad about the clergy, but to the OP, you might as well save your money, because this man will not wear anything you buy.
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I have heard numerous priests agonize and quibble about rose vestments, agonizing over the precise shade they are supposed to be, and how they are not supposed to be pink, but salmon-colored or whatever else. (By the way, the rubrics use the word "rose-colored", and say nothing about salmons.) Many priests refused to wear rose vestments because they were supposed just not quite the right hue or shade.
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Finally it dawned on me what was really going on. They just have the normal male repugnance against wearing anything that looks pink, and are trying to hide it by quibbling about roses and salmon and similar things. He's basically saying, "Eeeww, pink! I'm not wearing that!" While it's perfectly normal and healthy for a man to refuse to wear pink in general, to allow such an attitude to trump a liturgical directive is wrong and childish. But priests are human beings like anyone else, and unfortunately some of them just can't bring themselves to wear rose-colored vestments.
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So if you buy another set that is supposedly the right hue, he will probably not wear them anyway, or if he wears it once or twice, he will eventually be replaced by another priest who will say they are either "too pink" or "too salmon", whichever seems to fit better.
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