Ember Saturday in the Pentecost Octave

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Basil the Great, Bp, Confessor, & Doctor

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, Commemoration of St. Basil, no 3rd. Orations, Proper Last Gospel of St. Basil. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Ghost

Office

Doxology: Pentecost (through None)

Hymn Tone: Pentecost (through None)

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Basil

Day hours: Hymn at Terce = "Veni Creator"

Vespers: Here begins the Summer Volume of the Breviary. First Vespers of Trinity Sunday, Commemoration only of the First Sunday after Pentecost. Final Marian antiphon "Salve Regina" from now until Advent.

Compline: Hymn takes the Per Annum doxology sung in the Solemn Melody