Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (Christmas Eve)

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Abstinence

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, no Commemorations, Alleluia & Verse omitted, Dismissal = "Benedicamus Domino". Folded Chasubles: No, today dalmatic & tunicle are worn

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum (through None)

Hymn Tone: Advent (through None)

Lauds: Proper antiphons (doubled) w/ Festal Psalms

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es"; No Preces, Announcement of the Nativity solemnly proclaimed at the Martyrology

Day hours: No Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of Christmas, no Commemorations

Compline: Hymn takes the proper doxology of the Incarnation sung in the Christmas melody