Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Sunday, Proper Last Gospel of the Sunday, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Ordinary

Matins: Lesson IX of the Sunday

Lauds: Commemoration of the Sunday

Prime: Verse = "Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris"

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of Exaltation of the Holy Cross