Lenten Feria

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

Organ: Only to accompany singing

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Orations "A cunctis", 3rd. Orations "Pro vivis et defunctis", 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, Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Ps. 149, displaced from Lauds, added as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: From today through Holy Saturday, including even feasts but except on Sundays, Vespers are sung before the main meal of the day (this is often interpreted to mean Vespers are sung in the late morning so as to break the fast for the main meal at midday). With this Hour, the Proper elements of the Lenten Office begin. First Vespers of the following Sunday, Suffrage of the Saints.

Compline: Hymn sung in the Lenten Melody, Preces