Passion Sunday

In the traditional Roman Rite this is Passion Sunday, the first Sunday in Passiontide. The somber mood of the liturgy increases. From this Sunday forward through Maundy Thursday the Gloria is omitted from the Intrioitus of the Mass. You can hear the proper chant for the Introitus here. (The recording starts out almost inaudibly until whoever was doing the recording adjusts it to a listenable level.) The Introitus chant is the same in the Pauline Rite although the likelihood of hearing it in a new rite Mass is almost nil.

The texts of the complete propers for this Sunday can be found as a Word file here and here. As a pdf file it can be found here and here. (Both pages are needed for each.)