Ash Wednesday

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Matins: Ferial Office; Distribution of Ashes before Lauds or Prime

Lauds: Commemoration of Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, no Suffrage

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es de Maria Virgine"; Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of the Feria