Ember Saturday in Lent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial 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: Add Ps. 149 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Day hours: Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers (sung before the main meal) of the following Sunday, Suffrage of the Saints

Compline: Preces