Invention of the Holy Cross

Color: Red

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

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

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of Ss. Alexander I), 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 Ss. Alexander I, Pope, Eventius & Theodulus, Martyrs, and St. Juvenalis, Bishop & Confessor

Prime: Verse = "Qui surrexisti a mortuis"

Vespers: First Vespers of St. Joseph, Commemorations of Invention of the Holy Cross and then of St. Monica, no Commemoration of the Cross