St. Francesca Romana, Widow

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Ember Wednesday in Lent

Penitential kneeling: Only at the Ember Mass

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Lent, Proper Last Gospel of the Ember Day. Folded Chasubles: (Only at the Ferial Mass)

Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Lent

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Lent

Matins: Lesson IX of the Ember Day

Lauds: Commemoration of Ember Wednesday in Lent

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of Forty Holy Martyrs, Commemoration of the Feria, Commemoration of Lenten Feria