Mass orations/colors for optional memorials

[wkussmaul]

A deacon asks: at daily Mass for an optional Memorial, is it proper to use the liturgical color of the season, while praying the proper Collect? What about the other prayers: daily, or from the Commons? Mix and match at celebrant’s option? And the Preface: seasonal, or appropriate to the Saint? How about the the Antiphons? So many options… should they all be consistent?

 

[InThePew]

From the GIRM:

On optional memorials,

1. On the weekdays of Advent from December 17 to December 24, on days within the Octave of Christmas, and on the weekdays of Lent, except Ash Wednesday and during Holy Week, the Mass for the current liturgical day is to be used; but the collect may be taken from a memorial which happens to be listed in the General Calendar for that day, except on Ash Wednesday and during Holy Week. On weekdays of the Easter Season, memorials of Saints may rightly be celebrated fully.
2. On the weekdays of Advent before December 17, the weekdays of the Christmas Season from January 2, and the weekdays of the Easter Season, it is possible to choose either the weekday Mass, or the Mass of the Saint, or the Mass of one of the Saints whose memorial is observed, or the Mass of any Saint listed in the Martyrology for that day.
3. On the weekdays in Ordinary Time, it is possible to choose either a weekday Mass, or the Mass of an optional memorial which happens to occur on that day, or the Mass of any Saint listed in the Martyrology for that day, or a Mass for Various Needs, or a Votive Mass.