Octave Day of All Saints

The Octave Day of All Saints is of greater-double rite. The liturgical colour is white.

At Vespers yesterday the antiphons Inclinavit Dominius etc were sung, doubled, with psalms 114, 115, 119, 120 & 121 from the Psalter for Monday at Vespers. The chapter was of the feast, Ecce ego Joannes and the Office hymn Placare, Christe, servulis. The antiphon on the Magnificat was Angeli, Archangeli etc from first Vespers of the feast. After the collect of the feast a commemoration was sung of the Four Crowned Martyrs. At Compline the ferial psalms were sung.

At Mattins the invitatory of the feast Regem regum Dominum venite adoremus, Quia ipse est corona Sanctorum omnium, and the hymn, Placare, Christe, servulis. The antiphons, psalms and versicles are taken from the Psalter for Tuesday. In the first nocturn the lessons are taken from occurring scripture, the third chapter of Daniel, with its responsories. In the second nocturn the lessons are taken from the book of St. Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr, on Mortality with the responsories of the Octave. In the third nocturn the homily on St. Matthew's Gospel is from St. Augustine. At Lauds the antiphons and psalms for Tuesday are sung. From the chapter the Office is of the Octave. After the collect of the feast a commemoration is sung of the Four Crowned Martyrs.

At the Hours the ferial antiphons and psalms are sung. At Prime the lectio brevis is Benedictio et claritas.

Mass is sung after Terce. The Gloria is sung, the second collect is of the Four Crowned Martyrs. The Creed is sung.

Vespers are first Vespers of the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. The antiphons Domum tuam Domine etc, from the Common of the Dedication of a Church, are sung with psalms 109, 110, 111, 112 & 147. The Office hymn is Caelestis urbs Jerusalem. After the collect a commemoration is sung of the Octave Day of All Saints. At Compline the Dominical psalms are sung.

In the 'liturgical books of 1962' the Octave has, of course, been abolished. Today is a IV class ferial day. The Four Crowned Martyrs get commemorated at ferial Lauds (which, following the 1911-13 changes, has exactly the same antiphons and psalmody used in the festal Office of the Octave Day) and in said Masses. Mass has no Gloria yet Ite, missa est. Vespers are ferial without any commemoration of the Dedication of the Lateran, the Octave Day or the Four Crowned Martyrs.