Sunday, March 22, 2020


IV Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)

I class
Rose (or Violet)


General info:

Today flowers may be used on the altar, the organ and other musical instruments may play, relics are exposed on the altar gradines, and Rose vestments are substituted for violet in the Office and Mass

Funerals are not permitted


Mass:

Mass of the 4th Sunday of Lent; no Gloria; Credo; Preface of Lent


Breviary:

Office of Sunday in Tempore Quadragesimae

Matins: Invitatorium Non sit vobis; Hymn Ex more; 9 antiphons and psalms of Sunday with verse Ipse liberavit; 3 lessons proper; no Te Deum

Lauds: Proper antiphons, with psalms of Sunday (2nd scheme); remainder is proper

Prime: Proper antiphon; psalm 53 replaces psalm 117; short lessonĀ Quaerite

Hours: Proper antiphons, with psalms of Sunday; remainder is proper

II Vespers: Antiphons and psalms of Sunday; remainder is proper

Compline: Of Sunday