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Nave is the church by day, and Apse is its vault by night. Default follows your device.

Includes a reading of the following day’s saints at Prime.

Shows the hymn and the Marian antiphon in chant notation, where notation is available.

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Nave is the church by day, and Apse is its vault by night. Default follows your device.

Includes a reading of the following day’s saints at Prime.

Shows the hymn and the Marian antiphon in chant notation, where notation is available.

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Ember Wednesday in Advent

Privileged Feria · Violet

Its date moves from year to year

Next kept Wednesday, December 16, 2026 The day’s hours ›

Proper of the feast

Proper to the feast. As said on Wednesday, December 16, 2026.

Collect

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that the coming festival of our redemption may bring us aid in this present life, and bounteously bestow the rewards of eternal blessedness. Through thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth God, world without end.

℟.Amen.

At Lauds · Benedictus

The Angel * Gabriel was sent to Mary, a Virgin espoused to Joseph.

At Vespers · Magnificat

Behold the handmaid of the Lord; * be it unto me according to thy word.

The whole office: the hours of Wednesday, December 16, 2026

The next eight years

  1. 2026Wed, Dec 16Kept
  2. 2027Wed, Dec 15Kept
  3. 2028Wed, Dec 20Kept
  4. 2029Wed, Dec 19Kept
  5. 2030Wed, Dec 18Kept
  6. 2031Wed, Dec 17Kept
  7. 2032Wed, Dec 15Kept
  8. 2033Wed, Dec 14Kept