In Vigilia Nativitatis Domini

 ~ Duplex I. classis

Tues, 12/24/24:

Today is the vigil of Christmas under the 1954 (privileged vigil of the I class) and 1962 (I class vigil) rubrics.

Mass: Proper Mass. Violet. Omit Gloria. Gradual. Omit Alleluia. Omit Credo. Common Preface (1962: optional Preface of Advent). Benedicamus (1954)/Ite (1962). No commemorations or additional prayers under both sets of rubrics.

Today, the altar may be decorated with flowers. At solemn Mass, deacon and subdeacon wear dalmatic and tunicle, respectively, instead of folded chasubles under the 1954 rubrics.

Office: Under 1954, Matins is of simple rite. Proper Invitatory (Hodie scietis) and hymn (Verbum supernum). Under both rubrics, Matins of 1 nocturn of 3 lessons (all proper). At Matins, psalms and antiphons of the feria. At Lauds and the hours, the Office is of double rite under the 1954 rubrics. Psalms of Sunday (Lauds = schema I; Prime = 53, 118.1, 118.2) with proper antiphons. All else from the proper for the vigil. Collect of the vigil. No commemorations at Lauds. Omit suffrage (1954). (LB236 on Twitter/X.)

Collect
℣. The Lord be with you.
℟. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, You Who gladden us year after year with the expectation of our redemption, grant that we, who now welcome with joy Your only-begotten Son as our Redeemer, may also gaze upon Him without fear when He comes as our judge, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who livest and reignest with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.
℟. Amen