Passiontide 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 "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
Hymn Tone: Passiontide
Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces
Prime: Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) 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: No Preces