Seven Sorrows of the BVM (Octave Day of the Nativity of the BVM)

Color: White

Penance: Abstinence

Commemorations: St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of St. Nicomedes at Low Masses only, Sequence.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Transfixione")

Office

Doxology: Seven Sorrows

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Nicomedes

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration only of the following Ss. Cornelius & Cyprian