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: Lent (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: First Vespers of the following Sunday (before the main meal), Commemoration of St. Patrick. From now through Trinity Sunday, the Suffrage of the Saints is omitted.

Compline: Hymn sung in the Passiontide melody; from now until Spy Wednesday Compline, the minor doxology "Gloria Patri" is omitted in all Responsories and after Ps. 94 at Matins, but only when the Office is of the season; the doxology is retained after in all other instances of the Office and not omitted anywhere in the Office of feasts during the first week of Passiontide.