Octave of St. Joseph

Color: White

Penance: Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: None

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: of the BVM, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa". Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: St. Joseph

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: First Vespers of St. Joseph, Commemorations of the Octave and then of St. Anicetus