Ember Wednesday in the Pentecost Octave

Color: Red

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Bede the Venerable, Confessor & Doctor; St. John I, Pope & Martyr

Penitential kneeling: No penitential kneeling during the Easter season

Mass

After None, Commemorations of St. Bede and St. John I, 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

Lauds: Commemorations of St. Bede and of St. John I

Day hours: Hymn at Terce = "Veni Creator"

Vespers: Vespers of the Octave, Commemorations of St. Bede and of St. Augustine of Canterbury