The Lux Fulgebit mass is not common. They've done it (and recorded the Proper) at St. Mary Norwalk. I'm a morning person, and it's on my bucket list to do, but I've never had the opportunity, which tells you something. So does the fact that it's omitted from the Liber Brevior. But the Church found it important enough for it to have its own liturgy, when the Mass During the Day would also have worked, so I think one should do it at least occasionally.

How does one have a 90 minute Low Mass? You'd need an hour-long homily, and I'm not even sure that Fr. Philip Wolfe could pull that off.

We had our organ tuned today, and the older tuner said he'd been brought to our parish as a child, in the 1980s, and his father was offended because the priest zipped through the NO Mass in 20 minutes.

We do the Mass at dawn, although later than 6:00am (the sun doesn't rise that early here in December). So midnight Mass (at midnight, of course), Mass at dawn around 7 or 8, and Christmas day Mass at 10 or 10:30. They work it out somehow, I forget the exact times. And full propers for everything. I want to do Matins too, but last year I only got through two of the Nocturns. If I get a friend to alternate the psalm verses with it will be easier.

I did the three Christmas Masses, Midnight, 9:00 a.m. and 11 a.m. I think only monastics tie in the Dawn mass with the time of Lauds. And isn't that mas supposed to be at the aurora? just before dawn?

Is this actually a thing in other Latin Mass communities, or is mine just going into extremes with piety and worship? ... It didn’t used to be like this.

Many seem to be overdoing things nowadays, trying to replicate the liturgical schedule of a cathedral or shrine rather than a normal preconciliar parish, and in non-territorial parishes where resources are already spread thin, nobody lives close to the church, there's no school attached, and perhaps the facilities are also inadequate (no choir rehearsal room available). Then add a large number of weddings because of an unusually young demographic and the responsibilities of the music department become overwhelming, if not downright unmanageable. We have three Sung Masses for Christmas, but the "Dawn" Mass is later in the morning, usually 8:30 or 9:00.

I get the impression it is very uncommon. However, the FSSP parish I used to sing with always has a sing Dawn Mass, at 8am. It is a schola only Mass; the choir only sings at midnight and day Masses.

Not even the Benedictine monastery I was with for a while (Clear Creek) sang the Dawn Mass. Which I thought was real unfortunate, though understandable with the fully sung Matins, Midnight Mass, followed by Lauds (followed by private (midnight) Masses.

I live near St. Marys, and I asked the schola director at the Immaculata (SSPX) if they ever thought of singing the Dawn Mass if they had the volunteers to do it. He said he would be personally supportive of it with the approval of the head pastor, but that for pastoral reasons, didn't think it would ever happen, because it would deprive people who prefer Low Mass of attending a Low Mass on Christmas.

(Of course I didn't approve of that answer...haha but we don't have to get into that here.)

CharlesSA, I’m sympathetic to your idea, and to the point that Patrick made above…yes, we’re a parish, not a cathedral or collegiate church, which is why I kept benediction instead of the Office of the Dead on Sunday evening (and I know a lot about the sorts of situations about which Patrick is talking, so I am very understanding). But I do like to keep the cathedral spirit in mind…I think that it’s good that most places doing the pre-55 simplify the cathedral/collegiate church rubrics instead of using the Memoriale Rituum which is an impoverished rite.