Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (Christmas Eve)

Color: Violet

Penance: (No Fast & Abstinence this year because of Sunday)

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: Fourth Sunday of Advent

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, Commemoration of the Sunday, no 3rd. Orations, Alleluia & Verse added because of Sunday, Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino, no Proper Last Gospel. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Trinity

Office

Doxology: Per Annum (through None)

Hymn Tone: Advent (through None)

Matins: First & Second Nocturns of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Third Nocturn = Antiphons from the Psalter and Proper Lessons of the Vigil

Lauds: Commemoration of the Sunday

Vespers: First Vespers of Christmas, no Commemorations

Compline: Hymn takes the Proper Doxology of the Incarnation sung in the Christmas melody