Lenten Feria

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

Organ: Only to accompany singing

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, 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. From today through Holy Saturday, Vespers are sung before the main meal on all days including feasts, except Sundays. First Vespers (sung before the main meal) of the following Sunday, Commemorations of St. Peter and of St. Paul, no Suffrage

Compline: Hymn sung in the Lenten melody, no Preces