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HERE is an Office for every day, and this Office is either (1) Double, (2) Semi-double, or (3) Simple.

The Office is Double from Maundy Thursday to Easter Tuesday, both inclusive, on Low Sunday, on Ascension Day, on Whitsun Day, and the Monday and Tuesday following, on Trinity Sunday, on Corpus Christi, and on the Dedication Feast of the Church where the service is held, or to which the person praying is attached; on every Feast-day in the Kalendar marked Double, and on the Octave-day of every Feast which has an Octave; more over, upon the Feast of the Patron or Patrons, or Titular or Titulars, of the place or Church, and upon the Feast or Feasts of any Saint or Saints which any particular Church, Order, or Congregation may have been used and have obtained, or shall obtain, the Sanction of the Apostolic See to observe solemnly, either with a special Office, or with the Common Office, even although such Feast be not to be found in the Roman Kalendar. Moreover, the Office for the Dead is said as a Double upon All Souls Day, and upon the day of the death or burial of the Deceased for whom it is said, even as is directed in the Office itself.

2. A Double Feast is kept or commemorated upon its own day, unless it should be transferred or entirely omitted according to Chapter X. of this Pie.

3. A Double Feast has the whole of both First and Second Vespers, unless it clash with another like Office, as treated of in Chapter XI. of this Pie, and the whole Office is then of the Double from the Vespers on the first evening till Compline on the second, both inclusive unless something special be ordered in its own place. The Office of the Dead, however, has only one Vesper Service, Mattins, and Lauds, as given in its own place.

4. On a Double, the Antiphons at both Vespers, at Mattins, and at Lauds (but not at Prime, Terce, Sext, None, or Compline,) are doubled, that is to say, are repeated entire both before and after the Psalm or Canticle to which they respectively belong.

5. At Mattins on a Double are always said three Nocturns, being nine Psalms