Holy Innocents, Martyrs

Color: Violet

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Octave of the Nativity

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of the Octave, Tract replaces Alleluia, Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: Christmas

Matins: No "Te Deum", use 9th. Responsory

Lauds: Commemoration of the Octave

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemorations of the following Sunday, St. Thomas Becket, and of the Octave