Ember Wednesday in the Pentecost Octave

Color: Red

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. John of Sahagún, Confessor, Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius, Martyrs

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of St. John of Sahagún, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of Sts. Basilides. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Ghost

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Pentecost (with Hanc Igitur)

Office

Doxology: Pentecost

Hymn Tone: Pentecost

Matins: Lesson IX of Sts. Basilides

Lauds: Commemoration of St. John of Sahagún, Confessor, Commemoration of Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius, Martyrs

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: Vespers of the Day, Commemorations of St. John of Sahagún and then of Sts. Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius