The Holy Father is wearing Bl. Pius IX's mitre of the Immaculate Conception and the rather beautiful gothic chasuble he wore last year for the same feast and for the Easter Vigil. There are Cardinal Deacons who seem to wear Paul VI's conciliar vestments. We are possibly going to see the Holy Father wear the matching Roman chasuble on 6 January:
While the first reading was read by a lay woman, the second was read by an instituted lector:
The homily:
