Privileged Octaves. Common Octaves. Simple Octaves.

Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal (1945 Edition),
by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey Of Saint Andre.
Originally published by The E. H. Lohmann Co.
Re-published by St. Bonaventure Publications, July, 1999.
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Pope Saint Zephyrinus.

(Papacy 199 A.D. - 217 A.D.).

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A Double of The First-Class can have:

1.      A Privileged Octave.

a.      Of The First Order (Easter and Pentecost),

so called, because the Church does not permit, during this Octave, the celebration of any other Feast.

Only from the Wednesday (within the Octave), Commemorations of Saints are made by Collects, Proper to them.

b.      Of The Second Order (Epiphany and Corpus Christi),

which gives place only to Feasts of The First-Class, or to the Octave Day of a Feast of The First-Class, on the Calendar of the Universal Church. In these cases, a Commemoration is always made of the Octave.

c.      Of The Third Order (Christmas, Ascension and Sacred Heart),

which admits all Feasts, above the Rite of Simple, within the Octave, but the Octave Day gives place only to Feasts of The First-Class and of The Second-Class. A Commemoration is also made of the Octave.

2.      A Common Octave.

Containing all other Octaves of Feasts of The First-Class which have Octaves. For example, the Immaculate Conception, the Assumption, All Saints, the Dedication of Churches, Patronal Feasts. These Octaves admit the celebration of the same Feasts as Privileged Octaves of The Third Order. The Commemoration of the Octave is omitted on Doubles of The First-Class and of The Second-Class.

3.      A Simple Octave.

A Double of The Second-Class may have a Simple Octave, i.e., where the Octave Day is kept or Commemorated as a Simple Feast (Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Stephen, etc.).