Holy (Spy) Wednesday

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

Organ: Only to accompany singing

Commemorations: St. Vincent Ferrer, Confessor

Penitential kneeling: Yes, all day

Mass

After None, Commemoration of St. Vincent, no 3rd. Orations, Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Lauds: Proper antiphons, Ferial Preces, Commemoration of St. Vincent

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

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: Vespers of the Feria (sung before the main meal), Ferial Preces, Commemoration of St. Vincent

Compline: Preces