Ember Wednesday in Advent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers: No at the Ember Mass

Organ: No at the Ember Mass

Commemorations: Vigil of St. Thomas, Apostle

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Vigil of St. Thomas, 3rd. Oration: of the BVM, Proper Last Gospel of the Vigil, Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Lauds: Commemoration of Vigil of St. Thomas, Apostle

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es in mundum"; Add Ps. 96 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of St. Thomas, Commemoration of the Feria, Greater Antiphon "O Clavis David" at the Magnificat