Wednesday in Holy Week (Spy Wednesday)

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: St. John Damascene, Confessor & Doctor

Penitential kneeling.

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: Proper Antiphons w/ the Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces, Commemoration of St. John

Prime: Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: Vespers of the Feria (before the main meal), Ferial Preces, Commemoration only of St. John Damascene

Compline: Preces