Seven Sorrows of the BVM

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Wednesday in September, St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Penitential kneeling: Yes, at the Ember Mass only

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in September, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of St. Nicomedes), Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles are worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Transfixione")

Office

Doxology: Seven Sorrows

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Nicomedes

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in September, Commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Prime: Verse = "Qui passus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian, Commemoration of Sts. Euphemia, Lucia and Geminianus