Within the Octave of the IC

Color: White (Violet for Mass)

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: Ember Wednesday in Advent

Penitential kneeling: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

Mass

Conventual Mass of the Ember Day after None, Commemoration of the Octave, 3rd. Orations of the Holy Ghost; Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Private Masses of the Octave permitted today.. Folded Chasubles: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Matins: Lesson IX is not of the Ember Day because the Gospel is the same as that of the Octave

Lauds: Commemoration of the Ember Day

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Octave Day, Commemoration of the Feria (Collect of the preceding Sunday)