Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare)

Color: Rose or Violet

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor and Doctor

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas, Benedicamus Domino, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor and Doctor, no Suffrage

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"; Pss. 92 & 99, displaced from Lauds, replace Ps. 117 which migrates to Lauds; no Preces

Vespers: Second Vespers of the Sunday, Commemoration of St. John of God, Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas, Commemoration of Lenten Feria, no Suffrage