St. Nicholas, Bishop & Confessor

Color: White

Penance: Fast & Abstinence (anticipated)

Flowers: Yes (No for the Vigil Mass)

Organ: Yes (No for the Vigil Mass)

Commemorations: Advent Feria, Vigil of the Immaculate Conception (Anticipated to Saturday, Mass only)

Penitential kneeling: Yes for the Vigil Mass only

Mass

After Terce, Mass of the feast, Commemorations of the Feria and of the Vigil, Proper Last Gospel of the Vigil. Where possible, Mass of the Vigil after None, Commemoration of the Feria, 3rd. Orations of the Holy Ghost, Dismissal = Benedicamus Domino.. Folded Chasubles: Yes, for the Vigil Mass

Gloria: Yes (No at the Vigil Mass). No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Lauds: Commemoration of the Feria

Vespers: First Vespers of the following Sunday, Commemorations of the preceding and of St. Ambrose