Ember Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
Color: Red
Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence
Flowers are permitted.
The organ may be played.
No penitential kneeling.
Mass
After None, 2nd. Orations "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa"; no 3rd. Orations, Sequence. Folded Chasubles are not worn.
Gloria. Credo.
Preface: Holy Ghost
Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes and Hanc Igitur of Pentecost
Office
Doxology: Pentecost
Hymn Tone: Pentecost
Day hours: At Terce, hymn "Veni Creator"
Vespers: Vespers of the Octave, no Commemorations