Lenten Feria

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

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: Add Ps. 149 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: Here begins the Spring Volume of the Breviary. First Vespers of the following Sunday, Commemoration of St. Simeon, Suffrage of the Saints. From today through Holy Saturday, except only on Sunday afternoons, Vespers are sung before the main meal of the day (customarily this is taken at midday such that Vespers are sung in the late morning); this holds true even on feast days because every weekday of Lent is a fast day without exception in traditional practice.

Compline: Hymn sung in the Lenten melody, Preces