Within the Octave of the IC

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Advent Feria; St. Melchiades, Pope & Martyr

Mass

After Terce, Commemorations of the Feria and of St. Melchiades.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: BVM (Et te in Conceptione immaculata)

Office

Doxology: Incarnation (through None)

Hymn Tone: BVM (through None)

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Melchiades

Lauds: Commemorations of the Feria and of St. Melchiades

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: First Vespers of the following Sunday, Commemorations of the Octave and of St. Damasas

Compline: Hymn sung with the Per Annum Doxology in the Advent Tone (the proper doxology of the Octave is suspended for the intervening Sunday of Advent); no Preces