St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor and Doctor

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Saturday in Lent

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ember Mass

Mass

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

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Saturday in Lent

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Second Sunday of Lent, Commemorations of St. Thomas Aquinas and then of St. John of God, no Suffrage