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

Color: White

Commemorations: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost; St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration and Proper Last Gospel of the Sunday (at Low Masses only, Commemoration also of St. Nicomedes), Sequence.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Transfixione")

Office

Doxology: Seven Sorrows

Hymn Tone: Passiontide

Matins: Lesson IX of the Sunday

Lauds: Commemorations of the Sunday and of St. Nicomedes

Prime: Verse="Qui passus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemorations of the following day and of the Sunday