St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Saturday in September, Sts. Maurice and Companions, Martyrs

Penitential kneeling: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Saturday in September, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of Sts. Maurice and Companions, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles: Only for the Mass of the Ember Day

Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Ordinary

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Saturday in September, Commemoration of Sts. Maurice and Companions, Martyrs

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Commemorations of St. Thomas of Villanova, then of St. Linus, and then of S. Theclae Virg. et Mart., no Suffrage