Ember Friday in Lent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are not permitted.

Organ: Only to accompany singing

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Orations "A cunctis", 3rd. Orations "Pro vivis et defunctis", Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Lauds: Second Schema of Psalms, Ferial Preces, Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Ps. 98, displaced from Lauds, added as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day (before the main meal), Commemorations of the Feria and of St. Lucius, Suffrage of the Saints

Compline: Preces