Ember Saturday in Advent

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers: No at the Ember Mass

Organ: No at the Ember Mass

Commemorations: None

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: of the BVM, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es in mundum"; Add Ps. 149 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (Christmas Eve), Commemoration of the Sunday, Greater Antiphon "O Emmanuel" at the Magnificat