Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Hadrian, Martyr

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of St. Hadrian), Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM ("Et te in Nativitate")

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Hadrian

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Hadrian, Martyr

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

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of the following day