Ember Friday in Advent
Color: Violet
Penance: Fast & Abstinence
Flowers are not permitted.
The organ is not played.
Penitential kneeling.
Mass
After None, 2nd. Orations of the BVM, 3rd. Orations "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.
No Gloria. No Credo.
Preface: Common
Office
Doxology: Per Annum
Hymn Tone: Advent
Lauds: Proper Antiphons for the Friday before Christmas Eve w/ Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces
Prime: Add Ps. 98 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces
Day hours: Ferial Preces
Vespers: Vespers of the Feria, Magnif. Ant. = Great Antiphon "O Rex Gentium", Ferial Preces, no Commemorations
Compline: Preces