Ember Wednesday in Lent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers: No at the Ember Mass

Organ: No at the Ember Mass

Commemorations: None

Penitential kneeling: Yes, through None/Mass

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: "A cunctis", 3rd. Oration: "Pro Vivis et Defunctis", Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Lauds: Suffrage of the Saints

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"; Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of St. Simeon, Suffrage of the Saints