St. Hermenegild, Martyr

Color: Red

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Passiontide Feria

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ferial Mass

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Feria, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Proper Last Gospel of the Feria. Folded Chasubles: (Only at the Ferial Mass)

Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of the Feria

Lauds: Commemoration of the Feria

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"; Dominical Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of Palm Sunday, Commemorations of St. Hermenegild, then of St. Justin I, and then of Sts. Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus