Ash Wednesday

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

Organ: Only to accompany singing

Commemorations: Chair of St. Peter at Antioch, St. Paul

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, Blessing & Distribution of Ashes followed by Mass, Commemorations of St. Peter and of St. Paul, no further orations; Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Ferial (through None)

Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces, Commemorations of St. Peter and of St. Paul, Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Ps. 96, displaced from Lauds, added as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

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

Compline: Hymn sung in the "Ordinary" Melody, no Preces