Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception

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 in Conceptione Immaculata")

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Lauds: Commemorations of the Octave and of St. Melchiades

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemorations of the Octave and of the Feria