Invention of the Holy Cross (transferred from May 3)

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Monica, Widow

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of St. Monica, 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 St. Monica

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Monica, Widow

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

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