St. John Damascene, Confessor & Doctor

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Partial Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Passiontide Feria

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration and Proper Last Gospel of the Feria (where possible, Mass of the Feria after None); Ps. 42 and the Gloria Patri are retained in all festal Masses this week.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: The Gloria Patri is fully retained in the Office of feasts this week; Lesson IX of the Feria

Lauds: Commemoration of the Feria

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast (before the main meal), Commemorations of the following day and of the Feria