Annunciation of the BVM

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Lenten Feria

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration and Proper Last Gospel of the Feria (where possible, private Mass of the Feria after None).

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM (Et in Annuntiatione)

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Matins: Lesson IX of the Feria

Lauds: Commemoration of the Feria

Day hours: After None (and the private Ferial Mass), all Crosses and Sacred Images in the church are veiled in violet.

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast (before the main meal), Commemoration of the following Sunday