Ash Wednesday

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: None

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: "A cunctis", 3rd. Oration: "Pro Vivis et Defunctis", Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Ferial

Matins: Ferial Office; Distribution of Ashes before Lauds or Prime

Lauds: Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"; Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Commemoration of the Feria