Thursday in the Easter Octave

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: the Rogation Day (Greater Litanies, at Mass only)

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Rogation Day, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Proper Last Gospel of the Rogation Day (if the Rogation Mass is not celebrated after None). Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Easter

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Easter (with Hanc Igitur)

Office

Vespers: Vespers of the Day, Commemorations of the following, Friday in the Easter Octave and then of Ss. Cletus & Marcellinus