Invention of the Holy Cross

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Third Sunday after Easter, Octave of St. Joseph, Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Sunday, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of the Octave, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I), Proper Last Gospel of the Sunday, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Matins: Lesson IX of the Sunday

Lauds: Commemoration of the Sunday, Commemoration of the Octave, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of St. Monica, Commemoration of the Sunday, Commemoration of Octave of St. Joseph