St. Thomas, Bishop and Martyr

Color: Red

Penance: Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Octave of Christmas

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Octave. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: Christmas

Lauds: Commemoration of the Octave

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es de Maria Virgine"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of the Octave, Commemoration of Octave of Christmas