St. Linus, Pope & Martyr

Color: Red

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers: No at the Ember Mass

Organ: No at the Ember Mass

Commemorations: Ember Saturday in September; St. Thecla, Virgin & Martyr

Penitential kneeling: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

Mass

After Terce, Mass of the feast, Commemorations of the Ember Day and of St. Thecla, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Where possible, Mass of the Ember Day after None, Commemoration of St Thecla, 3rd. Orations "A cunctis", Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino.. Folded Chasubles: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

Gloria: Yes (No a the Ember Mass). No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum (through None)

Hymn Tone: Ordinary (through None)

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemorations of the Ember Day and of St. Thecla, Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Dominical Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following Sunday (Magnif. Ant. of the Saturday before the Fourth Sunday of September), Commemorations of St. Linus and then of Our Lady of Ransom, no Suffrage

Compline: Hymn sung with the Incarnation doxology in the melody of the BVM, no Preces