Passiontide Feria

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: None

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"; Add Ps. 46 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of the Feria, no Suffrage

Compline: Omit minor doxology in the Short Responsory