III Day within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Advent Feria, St. Melchiades, Pope and Martyr

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Feria, 3rd. Oration: Commemoration of St. Melchiades. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Conceptione Immaculata")

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Melchiades

Lauds: Commemoration of the Feria, Commemoration of St. Melchiades, Pope and Martyr

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es de Maria Virgine"

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemorations of the Octave, then of the Feria, and then of Oct. Concept. immac. B.M.V.