Seven Sorrows of the BVM

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. John Damascene, Confessor & Doctor; Passiontide Feria

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ferial Mass

Mass

After Terce, Mass of the feast, Commemorations of St. John Damascene and of the Feria, Proper Last Gospel of the Feria. After None, Mass of the Feria w/ the seasonal commemoration. . Folded Chasubles: (Only at the Ferial Mass)

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Transfixione")

Office

Doxology: Seven Sorrows

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of the Feria

Lauds: Commemorations of St. John Damascene and of the Feria

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast (sung before the main meal), Commemorations of the following day, St. John Damascen, and of the Feria