Simple(Matins), Double(Lauds-None/Mass), Privileged Vigil of the First Class
 
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Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord

Color: Violet

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, no Commemorations, Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum (through None)

Hymn Tone: Advent (through None)

Prime: Announcement of the Nativity during the Kalends at the beginning of the Martyrology

Vespers: First Vespers of the Nativity, no Commemorations

Compline: The hymn is sung with the proper doxology of the Incarnation in the Christmas melody

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