St. Peter Damian, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Complete Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Friday in Lent, Vigil of St. Matthias (at Mass only)

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ember Mass

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Friday in Lent, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of Vigil of St. Matthias, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles: (Only at the Ferial Mass)

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Friday in Lent

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: First Vespers of St. Matthias, Commemorations of St. Peter Damian and then of Ember Saturday in Lent