Octave of St. Joseph

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Anicetus, Pope and Martyr

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of St. Anicetus, 3rd. Oration: of the BVM. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: St. Joseph

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Anicetus, Pope and Martyr

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: First Vespers of the Third Sunday after Easter, Commemorations of the Octave and then of Octave of St. Joseph, no Commemoration of the Cross