Seven Sorrows of the BVM

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, St. Nicomedes, Martyr

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Sunday, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of St. Nicomedes), Proper Last Gospel of the Sunday, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Transfixione")

Office

Doxology: Seven Sorrows

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of the Sunday

Lauds: Commemoration of the Sunday, Commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Prime: Verse = "Qui passus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian, Commemoration of the Sunday, Commemoration of Sts. Euphemia, Lucia and Geminianus