Feria Sexta Quattuor Temporum Quadragesimæ ~ Feria major

 Fri, 3/14/25:

Today is the Ember Friday of Lent under the 1954 (simple) and 1962 (II class feria) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. Station church at the Twelve Holy Apostles. Violet. Omit Gloria. Tract with genuflection at Adjuva nos. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). Under 1954, 2nd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints. 3rd prayer Omnipotens for the living and the dead. No additional prayers under 1962. Office: Ferial office. Violet. Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 proper lessons. Omit Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema II). All else from the ferial office for Lent. Proper Benedictus antiphon and collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Suffrage (1954 only). Preces at Lauds and the hours (1954)/Lauds only (1962). At Prime, add displaced psalm 98 (1954 only).

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Be merciful to Your people, O Lord, and as You give them the grace to serve You, make them new by Your loving help.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.


Let us pray.
Collect of the Saints
From all perils of soul and body defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and by the intercession of blessed and gloriosus ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, graciously grant us safety and peace that all adversities and errors being overcome, thy Church may serve thee in security and freedom.

pro vivis et mortuos
Almighty and eternal God, who has dominion over both the living and the dead, and has mercy upon all whom You foreknow will be Yours by faith and good works; we humbly beseech You that all for whom we have resolved to make supplication, whether the present world home still holds them in the flesh or the world to come holds them out of the body, may, through the intercession of Your saints, obtain of Your goodness and clemency pardon for all their sins.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam I in Quadragesima ~ Feria major

 Thurs, 3/13/25:

Today is a Lenten feria under the 1954 (simple) and 1962 (III class) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Station church at St. Lawrence in Panisperna. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Omit Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). Under 1954, 2nd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints. 3rd prayer Omnipotens for the living and the dead. No additional prayers under 1962.

Office: Ferial office. Violet. Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 lessons. Omit Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema II). All else from the ferial office for Lent. Proper Benedictus antiphon and collect. No commemorations at Lauds. Preces (1954 only). Suffrage (1954 only). At Prime, add displaced psalm 97 as the fourth psalm; under 1962, psalm 97 is omitted entirely.

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
We beseech You, O Lord, look graciously upon the fervor of Your people, who mortify themselves in the flesh through abstinence: that they may be refreshed in mind by the fruit of these good works.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Collect of the Saints
From all perils of soul and body defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and by the intercession of blessed and gloriosus ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, graciously grant us safety and peace that all adversities and errors being overcome, thy Church may serve thee in security and freedom.

pro vivis et mortuos
Almighty and eternal God, who has dominion over both the living and the dead, and has mercy upon all whom You foreknow will be Yours by faith and good works; we humbly beseech You that all for whom we have resolved to make supplication, whether the present world home still holds them in the flesh or the world to come holds them out of the body, may, through the intercession of Your saints, obtain of Your goodness and clemency pardon for all their sins.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

S. Gregorii Papæ Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ Duplex

Scriptura: Feria Quarta Quattuor Temporum Quadragesimæ

Wed, 3/12/25:

Today is the feast of St. Gregory I, P, C & D, under the 1954 (double) rubrics. Mass: Si diligis me of a supreme pontiff with proper orations. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Credo (for feasts of doctors). Preface of the Apostles. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Ember Wednesday of Lent. Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Lent may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at St. Mary Major. Violet. Flectamus genua/Levate after the Kyrie. Additional collect, prophecy, and gradual. Omit Gloria. Tract after the second prophecy. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. Gregory I. In cathedrals, monasteries, etc., the festal Mass of St. Gregory I is sung after Terce as above, omitting commemoration of the Lenten feria. The Mass of the Ember Wednesday is sung after None as above, omitting commemoration of the feast and with the seasonal orations A cunctis and Omnipotens. Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Sapientiam of the feast, lesson IX = of the Ember Wednesday). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of a confessor bishop. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of the Ember Wednesday (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Omit suffrage.

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who granted the rewards of everlasting happiness to the soul of Your servant Gregory, mercifully grant that we who are weighed down with the burden of our sins may be raised up by his prayers to You.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Feria Quarta Quatuor Temporum Quadrigeismæ
Mercifully hear our prayers, we beseech You, O Lord; and stretch forth the right hand of Your Majesty against all things hostile to us.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam I in Quadragesima ~ Feria major

Tues, 3/11/25: 

Today is a Lenten feria under the 1954 (simple) and 1962 (III class) rubrics. 

Mass: Proper Mass (obligatory). Station church at St. Anastasia. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Omit Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus (1954)/Ite Missa est 1962.

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Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 21:10-17.
In that time, when Jesus was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this? And so on.

Homily by the Venerable Bede, Priest at Jarrow.
11th for Lent, Tom. vii
The same thing which the Lord showed in a figure by cursing the barren fig-tree, He afterwards more plainly put before us by casting the desecrators out of the temple. The tree herself had not sinned by bearing no fruit when the Lord was hungry, for the time of figs was not yet come, but those Priests had sinned who were carrying on worldly business in the Lord's house, and who neglected to bring forth that fruit of godliness which they owed, and which the Lord was hungry to find in them. The Lord made the fig-tree to wither away under His curse, that all men who saw it, and all men who hear of it, might know that they will be condemned by the judgment of God, if they content themselves with the talk of godliness, without the solid fruit of good works, even as that barren figtree was clothed only with a rustling garb of green leaves.

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Look upon Your household, O Lord, and grant that our minds, chastened by mortification of the flesh, may, because of their desire for You, shine in Your sight.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.


Let us pray.
Collect of the Saints
From all perils of soul and body defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and by the intercession of blessed and gloriosus ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, graciously grant us safety and peace that all adversities and errors being overcome, thy Church may serve thee in security and freedom.

pro vivis et mortuos
Almighty and eternal God, who has dominion over both the living and the dead, and has mercy upon all whom You foreknow will be Yours by faith and good works; we humbly beseech You that all for whom we have resolved to make supplication, whether the present world home still holds them in the flesh or the world to come holds them out of the body, may, through the intercession of Your saints, obtain of Your goodness and clemency pardon for all their sins.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Ss. Quadraginta Martyrum ~ Semiduplex

Commemoratio: Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam I in Quadragesima

Mon, 3/10/25:

Today is the feast of the Forty Holy Martyrs under the 1954 (semi-double) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Red. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria. 3rd prayer A cunctis for the intercession of the saints.

If a second (low) Mass is offered in parish churches, it is of the Lenten feria. Proper Mass. Station church at St. Peter in Chains. Violet. Omit Gloria. Tract with genuflection at Adjuva nos. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Benedicamus. Commemoration of the Forty Holy Martyrs. 3rd prayer A cunctis.

Office: Ordinary office. Red. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Fractres: Debitores with proper responsories, lesson IX = of the Lenten feria). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of several martyrs outside Paschaltide. Proper collect. Commemoration of the Lenten feria at Lauds (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Suffrage.

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, our Saviour, direct our minds by Your heavenly teaching, so that the Lenten fast may profit us.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Ss. Quadraginta Martyrum
Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that we who know how courageously Your holy Martyrs have confessed the faith, may experience their goodness as they intercede for us with You.

Collect of the Saints
From all perils of soul and body defend us, O Lord, we beseech thee, and by the intercession of blessed and gloriosus ever Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of blessed Joseph, of thy blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of blessed N. and all the Saints, graciously grant us safety and peace that all adversities and errors being overcome, thy Church may serve thee in security and freedom.
Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Dominica I in Quadragesima

Sun, 3/9/25:

Today is the 1st Sunday in Lent under the 1954 (semi-double Sunday of the I class) and 1962 (I class Sunday) rubrics. Mass: Proper Mass. Station church at St. John Lateran. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Credo. Preface of Lent. Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). Under 1954, commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, Wid. No commemorations or additional prayers under 1962. Office: Sunday office. Violet. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1954)/1 nocturn of 3 lessons (1962; lesson II = II & III of the old Breviary combined, III = lesson VII of the old Breviary). Omit Te Deum. At Matins, Lenten invitatory Non sit vobis and hymn Ex more on all Sundays until Passion Sunday exclusive. Psalms of Sunday (Lauds = schema II) with proper antiphons. Hymn O sol salutis at Lauds. All else from the proper. Collect of the Sunday. Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome at Lauds (1954 only). Omit suffrage (1954 only). At Prime, under 1954, psalms 92, 99, 118.1, 118.2. Under 1962, psalms 53, 118.1, 118.2.

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From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
Matt 4:1-11
In that time, Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And so on.

Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great.
16th on the Gospels
Some persons are accustomed to question what Spirit it was of which Jesus was led up into the wilderness, on account of the words a little farther on Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city and again The devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain. But in truth, and without any searching, we may very fitly take it that we are to believe it was the Holy Ghost Who led Him up into the wilderness; His own Spirit led Him where the evil spirit found Him to tempt Him. When however it is said that He, God and man, was taken up by the devil either into an exceeding high mountain or into the holy city, the mind shrinketh from believing, and the ears of man tingle to hear it. Yet these things we know not to be incredible, when we consider certain other things concerning Him.

In truth, the devil is the head of all the wicked, and every wicked man is a member of this body, of which the devil is the head. Was not Pilate a limb of Satan? Were not the Jews that persecuted, and the soldiers that crucified Christ, likewise limbs of Satan? Is it then strange that He should allow Himself to be led up into a mountain by the head, Who allowed Himself to be crucified by the members? Therefore it is not unworthy of our Redeemer, Who came to be slain, that He was willing to be tempted. It was meet that He should thus overcome our temptations by His own, even as He came to conquer our death by His own.

We ought to know that temptation worketh through three forms. There is, first, the suggestion; then the delectation; lastly, the consent. When we are tempted, it often happeneth that we fall into delectation, and even into consent, because in the sinful flesh of which we are begotten, we carry in ourselves matter to favor the attack. But God, when He took Flesh in the womb of the Virgin, and came into the world without sin, did so without having in Himself anything of this lusting of the flesh against the spirit. It was possible therefore for Him to be tempted in the first stage, namely suggestion; but there was nothing in His Mind in which delectation could fix its teeth. And thus all the temptation which He endured from the devil was without, and none within Him.

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, You Who purify Your Church by the yearly Lenten observance, grant to Your household that what they strive to obtain from You by abstinence, they may achieve by good works.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration S. Franciscae Viduae Romanae
O God, Who along with other gifts of Your grace honored blessed Frances, Your handmaid, with the close companionship of an angel, grant, we beseech You, that by the help of her intercession we may be made worthy to attain the companionship of angels.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

S. Joannis de Deo Confessoris ~ Duplex

Scriptura: Sabbato post Cineres 

Sat, 3/8/25:

Today is the feast of St. John of God, C, under the 1954 (double) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday.

Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Lenten feria may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at St. Tryphon. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Omit Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. John of God.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Beatus vir, lesson IX = of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of the Lenten feria (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Omit suffrage. No displaced psalm added at Prime.

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, Who caused blessed John when burning with love for You, to walk unharmed through the midst of flames, and through him enriched Your Church with a new religious family; grant that through the help of his merits, our sins may be burned away by the fire of Your love, and eternal remedies may come to us.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Sabbato post Cineres
Hear, O Lord, our humble prayers, and grant that we may devoutly keep this fast that has been established to cure our souls and bodies.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

S. Thomæ de Aquino Confessoris et Ecclesiæ Doctoris ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Feria VI post Cineres

Fri, 3/7/25:

Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, C & D, under the 1954 (double) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. White. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Credo (for feasts of doctors). Preface of Lent. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria.

Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Friday after Ash Wednesday may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at Ss. John and Paul. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Tract (with genuflection at Adjuva nos). Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of St. Thomas Aquinas.

In cathedrals, monasteries, etc., under the 1954 rubrics, the festal Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas is sung after Terce without commemoration of the Lenten feria. The Mass of the Lenten feria is sung after None, without commemoration of St. Thomas and with the seasonal orations A cunctis for the intercession of the saints and Omnipotens for the living and the dead.

Office: Ordinary office. White. Matins of 3 nocturns of 9 lessons (1st nocturn = Sapientiam, lesson IX = of the feria). Te Deum. Psalms and antiphons of the feria (Lauds = schema I). All else from the common of a confessor not a bishop. Proper collect. At Lauds, commemoration of the Friday after Ash Wednesday (proper Benedictus antiphon and collect). Omit suffrage. No displaced psalm added at Prime.

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Collect

℣. The Lord be with you.

℟. And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.

O God, Who dost enlighten thy Church by the wonderful learning of thy blessed Confessor Thomas, and quickenest her through his godly labours, grant unto thy people, we humbly beseech thee, ever to apprehend by their understanding what he teacheth, and in their life faithfully to practice the same.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

℟. Amen.

Let us pray.

Commemoration Feria VI post Cineres

May Your kindly favor, we beseech You, O Lord, accompany the fast we have begun, that we may be able to practice with a pure mind what we perform bodily.

Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.

℟. Amen.

Ss. Perpetuæ et Felicitatis Martyrum ~ Duplex

Commemoratio: Feria V post Cineres

Thurs, 3/6/25: Today is the feast of Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas, Mm, under the 1954 (double) rubrics. Mass: Me exspectaverunt of several non-virgin holy women with the collect Da nobis, quaesumus of several non-virgin martyrs and proper postcommunion. Red. Gloria. Gradual/Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Celebrant bows his head at mention of today's saints in the Canon. Ite. Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Lenten feria. Under 1954, in parish churches, the Mass of the Lenten feria may be offered at private (low) Masses, either in place of the Mass of the feast (if only one Mass is offered) or as a second Mass. Station church at St. George. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Omit Tract. Omit Credo. Preface of Lent. Celebrant bows his head at the mention of today's saints in the Canon. Prayer over the people. Benedicamus. Commemoration of Ss. Perpetua and Felicitas.

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Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
Grant, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that we may venerate with unceasing devotion Your holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas; and although we cannot pay them the honor that is their due, may we at least present to them our humble homage.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Let us pray.
Commemoration Feria V post Cineres
O God, offended by sin, and appeased by penitence, graciously hear the prayers of Your people as they entreat You to turn away from us the scourges of anger that we have deserved because of our sins.
Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.
℟. Amen.

Traditional Liturgical Notes for Lent

“…per the traditional rubrics:

“Lent begins this year on March 5, Ash Wednesday. The liturgical color is violet. In Masses of the season, the Gloria is omitted; the Te Deum is not said at Matins in the Office except on feasts. Schema II is used at Lauds in all Offices of the season, with the displaced psalm recited as the fourth psalm at Prime under the 1954 rubrics; under the 1962 rubrics, the displaced psalm is omitted entirely. “Flowers may not be on the altar, and the organ is played only to support the chanting if necessary, except on major feasts (St. Joseph, Annunciation) and on Laetare Sunday. Each ferial day has its own proper Mass and station church, a remnant of the ancient initiation practice for new Christians. “Under the 1954 rubrics, in Mass of the season, folded chasubles are worn by deacon/subdeacon at solemn Mass, except on Laetare Sunday. The seasonal orations are A cunctis for the intercession of the saints and Omnipotens for the living and the dead. Under the 1962 rubrics, deacon and subdeacon wear dalmatic/tunicle at Masses of the season, as folded chasubles were suppressed entirely in 1961. No additional (seasonal) prayers are said at Mass under the 1962 rubrics. The rubrics, along with clarifications issued by the Sacred Congregation of Rites (cf. O'Connell, 1964), suggest that the alb should be unadorned and without lace during penitential seasons, unless a major feast is celebrated. “The Preface of Lent is used at all Masses, including festal Masses, that do not have a proper preface. The Tract is sung/said only in Masses that contain it in their propers. “Under the 1954 rubrics, on days of semi-double, doubles, and double major rite, the Office is of the feast with commemoration of the Lenten feria at Lauds and at Vespers. At private (low) Masses in parish churches, either the Mass of the feast or of the feria may be said with commemoration of the other. At conventual Masses in cathedrals, monasteries, etc., on the feasts above the Mass of the feast is sung after Terce without commemoration of the feria, while the Mass of the feria is sung after None without commemoration of the feast. On doubles of the I and II class, the Mass and Office of the feast are obligatory, with the feria commemorated at all Masses (with Last Gospel of the feria) and at Lauds and Vespers. “Under the 1962 rubrics, the Lenten ferias (both Mass and Office; III class) are elevated above all feasts of the III class. Commemoration is made of occurring feasts at Lauds and at conventual/low Mass only. At conventual Masses under the 1962 rubrics, the Mass of the feria only is sung on the days above after Terce, with commemoration of any occurring feasts of the III class. The custom codified in the Tridentine Missal of singing conventual Mass after certain Office hours is suppressed. If a feria of Lent is outranked by a feast of the I or II class under the 1962 rubrics, the feria is a privileged commemoration and is commemorated at all Masses, at Lauds, and at Vespers. “As a general rule, votive Masses/daily Requiems (private [low] and sung) are not permitted during Lent under either set of rubrics. Exceptions are made for First Thursday, First Friday, and First Saturday, as well as certain other circumstances. “As a relic of an old custom where Lent did not begin until its first Sunday, the proper Office ordinary for Lent is not used until Vespers on the Saturday before the 1st Sunday. “Under the discipline in place in the U.S. in 1962, all days of Lent (except Sundays) are days of fast. One meal with two small snacks that together do not equal a full meal may be taken. Meat may not be eaten at all on Ash Wednesday, Fridays, and Holy Saturday (until noon). All other days of Lent not mentioned above are days of partial abstinence. Meat may taken at the principal meal. (For a history of the relaxation of the Latin Church's fasting discipline, see the work of

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“Under the present discipline (binding under pain of sin), fasting is only obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Meat may not be eaten on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent. The fast for all other days has been suppressed.”

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