Passiontide

 The season of Passiontide begins today at I Vespers of Passion Sunday. In Offices of the season, the Gloria Patri is at all times omitted, while the suffrage is omitted on days on simple and semi-double rite until Trinity Sunday. In Masses of the season, the psalm Judica me is omitted from the the prayers at the foot of the altar, as is the Gloria Patri in the Asperges rite at the principal Mass on Sundays, in the Introit, and at the Lavabo. (Note that none of this applies to festal or votive Masses; the Judica me and Gloria Patri are said as usual.) The Preface of the Holy Cross is used at all Masses that do not have a proper preface. Under the 1954 rubrics, in Masses of simple or semi-double rite on which a feast of double rite is not commemorated, the 2nd prayer is either Ecclesiae tuae for the Church or Deus omnium for the pope; no 3rd seasonal oration is said.

In all churches, chapels, and oratories, all statues, paintings, crucifixes, and other works of sacred art are covered in violet cloths from I Vespers of Passion Sunday until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil Mass. This tradition arose from the final section of the Gospel for Passion Sunday ("And Jesus hid Himself").

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