Sunday, December 28, 2025


Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity, Holy Innocents

II class
White

Commemoration of the Holy Innocents


Mass:

Proper Mass (Dominica infra Octavam Nativitatis) found in the Missal immediately after the Nativity; Gloria; commemoration added; Credo; preface and Communicantes of the Nativity


Breviary:

Office of Dominica infra octavam Nativitatis, found in the Breviary immediately after the Nativity.

Matins: Invitatorium, Hymn, and 9 antiphons and psalms from the Nativity (joined, not said as three nocturns); verse as found at the conclusion of the psalms for the Nativity (in its third nocturn); scriptural lessons 1 and 2 (=2 and 3) with their responsories from the first nocturn of the Nativity; lesson 3 proper to the Sunday within the Octave; Te Deum

Lauds: All is provided in the breviary for the Sunday within the Octave (the antiphons are the same as those of the Nativity), with Sunday psalms of the first schema; remainder proper; commemoration added

Prime: Sunday psalms and antiphons (Psalm 117 Confitemini is used); responsory verse Qui natus es

Hours: Sunday psalms and antiphons; remainder proper

Vespers: Antiphons and psalms of the Nativity; remainder proper

Compline: Of Sunday