Semidouble
Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity (transferred from Dec 28)
Color: White
Commemorations: Octave of the Nativity
Mass
After Terce, Commemoration of the Octave, 3rd. Orations of the BVM.
Gloria. Credo.
Preface: Nativity
Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Proper Communicantes of the Nativity
Office
Doxology: Incarnation
Hymn Tone: Christmas
Lauds: Commemoration of the Octave
Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es"
Vespers: Second Vespers of the Sunday, Commemorations of the following day and of the Octave