Passiontide 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 "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", no 3rd. Orations, Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum (through None)

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces

Prime: Ps. 97, displaced from Lauds, added as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day (before the main meal), Commemoration of the Feria

Compline: Hymn sung with the proper doxology of the Seven Sorrows, no Preces