First Sunday of Lent

Color: Violet

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: St. Frances of Rome, Widow

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of St. Frances, no 3rd. Orations, Dismissal = "Benedicamus Domino". Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Commemoration of St. Frances, no Suffrage

Prime: Pss. 92 & 99 (displaced from Lauds) replace Ps. 117 (moved to Lauds) as the first two psalms, no Preces

Vespers: Second Vespers of the Sunday (sung at the normal afternoon/evening time), Commemorations of the following day and of St. Frances, no Suffrage

Compline: No Preces