Holy Innocents, Martyrs

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Octave of the Nativity

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of the Octave, Alleluia, Dismissal = Ite, Missa Est. . Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes of the Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: Christmas

Matins: Te Deum

Lauds: Commemoration of the Octave

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

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