Purification of the BVM (Candlemas)

Color: Violet/White

Penance: Abstinence

Flowers: Yes, except during the blessing and procession of candles

Organ: Yes, except during the blessing and procession of candles

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, in violet vestments, blessing and procession of candles (Flectamus genua added before last oration) then Mass (in white), no Commemorations, Tract. Folded Chasubles: Yes, for the Blessing & Procession of candles before Mass only

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Per Annum

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: BVM

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, no Commemorations

Compline: From tonight through Spy Wednesday Compline, the final Marian antiphon = "Ave Regina Coelorum" at the end of each Hour