Purification of the BVM (Candlemas)

Color: White (Violet for the Blessing & Procession of Candles)

Flowers: No flowers during the Pre-Mass

Organ: No Organ during the Pre-Mass Blessing & Procession

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, Blessing & Procession of Candles in Violet followed by Mass in White. Folded Chasubles: Yes, for the Pre-Mass Blessing & Procession of Candles

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, no Commemorations

Compline: Final Marian antiphon = "Ave Regina Coelorum" from now until Spy Wednesday Compline inclusive