Invention of the Holy Cross (transferred from May 3)

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Monica, Widow, Octave of St. Joseph, Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of St. Monica, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of the Octave, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I), Proper Last Gospel of St. Monica. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Matins: Lesson IX of Ss. Alexander I

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Monica, Widow, Commemoration of the Octave, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of St. Pius V, Commemoration of St. Monica, Commemoration of Octave of St. Joseph