Votive Masses for Saint Paul
The Roman Missal includes a Votive Mass for St. Paul (no. 13). In celebrating the Votive Mass, red vestments are worn, the Preface of Apostles I is used, and the Scripture readings are taken from the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (Lectionary for Mass, no. 519).
Votive Masses can be celebrated on weekdays of Ordinary Time (or on optional memorials during Ordinary Time) at the discretion of the priest celebrant (see General Instruction of the Roman Missal [GIRM], no. 375).
On weekdays of the Seasons of Advent (before December 17), Christmas (after January 2), Lent, and Easter (after the Octave), and on obligatory memorials throughout the year, Votive Masses are not permitted. However, GIRM, no. 376 indicates: “[if] required by some real need or pastoral advantage, according to the judgment of the rector of the church or the priest celebrant himself,” a Votive Mass may be celebrated.
Votive Masses may not be celebrated on Sundays, Solemnities, Feasts, the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls), or during the Weekdays of Advent from December 17 to 24, Holy Week, or the Octave of Easter. With the permission of the diocesan bishop, a Votive Mass may be celebrated on one of the Sundays of Ordinary Time or on Feasts of the Lord or the Saints (see GIRM, no. 374).