Ferias.

Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal (1945 Edition),
by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey Of Saint Andre.
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Re-published by St. Bonaventure Publications, July, 1999.
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Pope Saint Zephyrinus.

(Papacy 199 A.D. - 217 A.D.).

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Ferias are weekdays on which no Feast is kept.

Ember Days, Rogation Days, and every Feria in Lent, have a special Mass. On other Ferias, the Mass of the preceding Sunday is said.

Some Ferias are called Greater Ferias, and are divided into two classes:

a.      The Privileged Ferias are Ash Wednesday and the first three days of Holy Week. These Ferias do not give way to a Feast.

b.      The Non-Privileged Ferias are those of Advent, Lent, the Ember Days, and the Monday of Rogation Week. A Commemoration is always made of them on Feast Days, and their Gospel is read at the end of Mass.

On the Ferias of Lent (after Ash Wednesday) and those in Passiontide (before Palm Sunday), the Ember Days (not those in Pentecost Week), on Monday of Rogation Week, and on ordinary Vigils, if a Greater-Double, Double, or Semi-Double Feast is kept, it is allowed in Private Masses to say the Mass of the Feria or of the Vigil with a Commemoration of the Feast, or the Mass of the Feast with a Commemoration and Last Gospel of the Feria or Vigil.