Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Christmas)

Color: White

Flowers are permitted.

The organ may be played.

Commemorations: St. Anastasia, Martyr (at the Dawn Mass only)

No penitential kneeling.

Mass

After Terce, (at Low Masses only, Commemoration of St. Anastasia), Proper Last Gospel of the Epiphany, Missa pro populo. Folded Chasubles are not worn.

Gloria. Credo.

Preface: Nativity

Proper Communicantes/Hanc Igitur: Nativity

Office

Doxology: Incarnation

Hymn Tone: Christmas

Matins: Lesson IX of St. Anastasia

Lauds: Commemoration of St. Anastasia, Martyr (at the Dawn Mass only)

Prime: Verse = "Qui natus es de Maria Virgine"

Vespers: Second Vespers of the feast, Commemoration of St. Stephen