Octave Day of the Holy Innocents
Simple · Red
Kept on January 4
The next eight years
Each date opens that day, with its hours.
Proper of the feast
Proper to the feast; texts marked Common are from the Common of One Martyr. As said on Monday, January 4, 2027.
At Lauds · Benedictus
These are they * which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins: and they follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.
Versicle at Lauds Common
℣.The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree.
℟.And shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.
Collect
O God, whose praise the Martyr Innocents confessed this day, not by speaking but by dying: mortify in us all the evils of vice, that our life may shew forth in deeds that faith in thee which our lips profess. Through thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth God, world without end.
℟.Amen.
The whole office: the hours of Monday, January 4, 2027