Bo­bie-lee Dixon

Have you ever been cu­ri­ous about what the dif­fer­ent colours worn by mem­bers of the Bap­tist faith meant? Well, ac­cord­ing to His High­ness Fa­ther Ma­son of the Trin­i­ty Bap­tist Cathe­dral, in Mt D'or, Champs Fleurs, they are sig­nif­i­cant to the dif­fer­ent or­ders and of­fices in the faith. "Just like in the army or the po­lice force or even the med­ical fra­ter­ni­ty, dif­fer­ent colours rep­re­sent what of­fice the per­son holds, it is the same in the Bap­tist faith but just in the spir­i­tu­al realm," Ma­son ex­plained. A colour can al­so be in a dif­fer­ent shade, which will rep­re­sent the stage that the per­son has reached in a spe­cif­ic of­fice, Ma­son said. He gave a de­tailed ex­pla­na­tion of six colours in par­tic­u­lar-brown, red, white, blue, black and kha­ki.

Brown

Brown is worn by a spir­i­tu­al work­er. "Af­ter 'moan­ing' (moan­ing ground), or be­ing called to the throne of grace, the moan­er would have at­tained the gift of a heal­er. This per­son wears the dark­est shade of brown, which im­plies the moan­er trav­elled in­to the land of el­e­men­tary heal­ing. Mean­ing that per­son has now been ad­mit­ted to the medics to be­come a spir­i­tu­al heal­er," dis­closed Ma­son. He added that a per­son wear­ing light brown sig­ni­fied a vol­un­tary work­er-work­ing along with a spir­i­tu­al heal­er, while brown com­bined with yel­low was in­ter­pret­ed as a per­son reach­ing a stage of ma­tu­ri­ty.

Red

Red is worn by some­one who has reached his/her fullest po­ten­tial in the spir­i­tu­al realm. "Some­one in this colour has reached the sta­tus of an arch­bish­op, high­ness or ex­cel­len­cy. This means they have gone through all of life's chal­lenges both in the phys­i­cal and spir­i­tu­al realm and emerged vic­to­ri­ous each time," stat­ed Ma­son.

White

White in the Bap­tist faith rep­re­sents pu­ri­ty. "Rev­e­la­tion chap­ter 22 says: Who are these? They are those that have gone through great tri­als and tribu­la­tions and have washed their robes in the blood of the lamb," quot­ed Ma­son. He said white in the Bap­tist faith was the colour used when a per­son re­ceived bap­tism and the colour be­liev­ers will wear in the pres­ence of God dur­ing the hour of judge­ment.

Blue

Blue al­so comes with bap­tism and rep­re­sents heav­en's de­c­la­ra­tion of the glo­ry of God. Ma­son re­vealed it was al­so the colour that rep­re­sent­ed a male or fe­male se­nior nurse in the spir­i­tu­al realm.

Black

Black is worn by a bap­tis­er or some­one who has been com­mis­sioned to walk the streets to preach. Ma­son said in the priest­hood it rep­re­sent­ed those who of­fi­cial­ly have the au­thor­i­ty to per­form var­i­ous cer­e­monies.

Kha­ki

Kha­ki rep­re­sents the rank of of­fi­cers in spir­it-chief, su­per­in­ten­dent and in­spec­tor of spir­it.