Invention of the Holy Cross

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Rogation Monday, Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Rogation Day, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I), Proper Last Gospel of the Rogation Day (if the Rogation Mass is not celebrated after None), Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Holy Cross

Office

Doxology: Paschal

Hymn Tone: Paschal

Matins: Lesson IX of Ss. Alexander I

Lauds: Commemoration of Rogation Monday, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of St. Monica, Commemoration of Rogation Tuesday