Within the Octave of the Sacred Heart

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Vigil of St. John the Baptist

Penitential kneeling: Yes for the Vigil Mass only

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of Vigil of St. John the Baptist, 3rd. Oration: "A cunctis", Proper Last Gospel of the Vigil. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Sacred Heart

Office

Doxology: Sacred Heart

Hymn Tone: Sacred Heart

Lauds: Commemoration of Vigil of St. John the Baptist

Prime: Verse = "Qui Corde fundis gratiam"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Commemoration of the Octave