Third Sunday after Easter

Color: White

Commemorations: St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin; Octave of St. Joseph

Mass

After Terce, Commemorations of St. Catherine and of the Octave.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Easter

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Lauds: Commemorations of St. Catherine and of the Octave

Prime: Preces are omitted due to the commemoration of a Double feast and because of the Octave

Vespers: First Vespers of Ss. Philip & James, Commemorations of the Sunday and of St. Catherine only (the days within a Common Octave are not commemorated when a Double Second Class feast occurs)