Holy (Spy) Wednesday

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers: Not permitted

Organ: Only to accompany singing

Commemorations: St. Gabriel, Archangel

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, 2nd Oration: Commemoration of St. Gabriel, Archangel, Last Gospel of the Mass of St. Gabriel, Archangel, Dismissal = "Benedicamus Domino". Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Commemoration of St. Gabriel, Archangel, Ferial Preces

Prime: Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: Vespers of the Feria, Ferial Preces, Commemoration of St. Gabriel

Compline: Preces