Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs

Color: Red

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Friday in Lent

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ember Mass

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Friday in Lent, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles: (Only at the Ferial Mass)

Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Friday in Lent

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: Vespers are split; from the Chapter onwards of the following day, Commemorations of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas, then of Ember Saturday in Lent, and then of the Feria