Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord (Christmas Eve)

Color: Violet

Penance: Fast & Abstinence

Flowers: No for the Vigil Mass

Organ: No for the Vigil Mass

Commemorations: Fourth Sunday of Advent

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, 2nd. Oration: Commemoration of the Sunday, 3rd. Oration: of the BVM, Benedicamus Domino, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

No Gloria. No Credo.

Preface: Common

Office

Doxology: Per Annum

Hymn Tone: Advent

Lauds: Commemoration of the Sunday

Prime: Verse = "Qui venturus es in mundum"

Vespers: First Vespers of Christmas