Ember Saturday in Advent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence (customarily, the full abstinence of Christmas Eve is anticipated to today because the Vigil falls on Sunday this year)

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.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Lauds: Proper Antiphons for the Saturday before Christmas Eve w/ Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces

Prime: Add Ps. 149 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day which is taken entirely from the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Magnif. Ant. = Great Antiphon "O Emmanuel", no Commemorations

Compline: Preces