This Thursday, May 30, is the Feast of Corpus Christi. Orange or golden flowers seem particularly suitable. The color of the vestments and altar frontals is white. A church flower book by Katherine Morrison McClinton (an Anglican/ Episcopalian) says that "yellow and white or white and gold are the appropriate flowers" for Corpus Christi. She suggests using Shasta daisies, calla lilies, or white and yellow roses. See the post Orange Flowers for Church Decoration for more information. (It includes golden flowers as well as orange).
Also, please see Gemma's altar flowers for Corpus Christi.
Source for text:
McClinton, Katherine Morrison, Flower Arrangement in the Church (Morehouse-Gorham Co., New York, 1958), p. 97.
Image:
A yellow rose, from Wikimedia Commons. Some rights reserved (Click for license.)
On the topic of orange and golden flowers, please also see the post on marigolds, which I updated/ reposted: https://the-pious-spinster.blogspot.com/2014/02/our-lady-and-marigold.html
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