VII Day within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Wednesday in Advent

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Advent, 3rd. Oration: of the BVM, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles are worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Conceptione Immaculata")

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Advent

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es de Maria Virgine"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Octave Day, Commemoration of the Feria