Nativity of St. John the Baptist (transferred from Jun 24)

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. William, Abbot, Within the Octave of the Sacred Heart, Octave of St. John Baptist

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Octave, (at Low Masses only, Commemorations of St. William and of the Octave). Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Sacred Heart

Office

Doxology: Sacred Heart

Hymn Tone: Sacred Heart

Lauds: Commemoration of St. William, Abbot, Commemoration of the Octave, Commemoration of the Octave

Prime: Verse = "Qui Corde fundis gratiam"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of the Sunday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart, Commemoration of Sts. John and Paul, Commemoration of St. William, Commemoration of the Sunday, Commemoration of the Octave