Sunday, April 6, 2025


Passion Sunday

I class
Violet


General info:

Veiling of crucifixes and images: see below

Omission of Iudica me and Gloria Patri at Mass: From this Sunday to Holy Thursday inclusive, in Masses of the season, the psalm Iudica me is omitted before the Confiteor, and the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Asperges, the Introit, and the Lavabo


Mass:

Mass of Passion Sunday; no Gloria; Credo; Preface of the Holy Cross


Breviary:

From this Sunday to Holy Thursday inclusive, at the short responses at Compline and the Hours, in the Offices of the season, the Gloria Patri is omitted.

Offices of Sunday in Tempore Passionis

Matins: Invitatorium Utinam hodie, the Gloria Patri is omitted at the end of psalm 94; Hymn Pange lingua; 9 antiphons and psalms of Sunday with verse Erue a framea; 3 lessons proper, omitting the Gloria Patri in the responsories after each lesson; 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 Faciem meam

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

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

Compline: Of Sunday


Reminder:

Funerals are not permitted today

During Passiontide, every crucifix and every other image of Our Lord in a church or oratory, as well as every image of Our Lady and of the Saints on the altars, must be covered with a violet veil. If an image of Our Lady or of a Saint in a church or oratory is not on an altar, its veiling is not strictly prescribed. It is permitted to leave images of the Stations of the Cross unveiled during the whole of Passiontide, even though they are images of Our Lord in a church or oratory.