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