Advent Feria

Color: Violet

Flowers are not permitted.

The organ is not played.

Commemorations: None

Penitential kneeling.

Mass

After None, 2nd. Oration: of the BVM, 3rd. Oration: "Contra Persecutores" or "Pro Papa", Benedicamus Domino. Folded Chasubles are worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es in mundum"; Add Ps. 95 (displaced from Lauds) as fourth psalm, Ferial Preces

Vespers: First Vespers of the following day, Commemoration of Vigil of St. Thomas, Greater Antiphon "O Radix Jesse" at the Magnificat