Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Color: White

Commemorations: St. Anastasia (at the Dawn Mass only)

Mass

Three Masses: one at Night between Matins and Lauds (which on this day only these Hours are officially split); second Mass at Dawn after Prime, Commemoration of St. Anastasia; third Mass of the Day after Terce w/ Proper Last Gospel of the Epiphany.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes of the Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: Christmas

Matins: Sung before the Midnight Mass and ends with the Collect & Dismissal

Lauds: Sung immediately after the Midnight Mass

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of St. Stephen