Saturday, December 27, 2025

St. John

Apostle and Evangelist

II class
White

General info:

Within the Octave of the Nativity, I and II class votive Masses of the Dead are permitted.

Mass:

Proper Mass (White); Gloria; commemoration of the Octave of the Nativity; Credo; preface and Communicantes of the Nativity

Breviary:

Matins: Invitatorium Regem Apostolorum; Hymn Aeterna Christi; 3 nocturns, Te Deum

Lauds: Proper antiphons and Sunday psalms; Hymn Exsultet; commemoration of the Octave of the Nativity

Prime: Verse Qui natus es

Hours: Ferial psalms and antiphons

Vespers: Of St. John. Antiphons and psalms of the Nativity; capitulum and following of St. John; commemoration of the coming Sunday only, but not of the current day within the Octave

Compline: Of Sunday