Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete)

Color: Rose or Violet

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: None

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: of the BVM, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Benedicamus Domino, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Trinity

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es in mundum"; Dominical Preces

Vespers: Second Vespers of the Sunday, Greater Antiphon "O Sapientia" at the Magnificat