Historic Lent
The two ways the Church has kept the weekdays of Lent — the ancient daily Mass lectionary, and the Lutheran midweek reading of the Passion.
✠ Lenten Weekday Lectionary
The historic Western lectionary that appoints a proper Epistle and Gospel for every day of Lent — Ash Wednesday through Good Friday — for any year, with each reading marked for its Roman or Lutheran provenance.
Open →📖 The Passion History
The harmonized narrative of our Lord's Passion, divided for reading at the Wednesday midweek services through Lent, as arranged in the Common Service Book (1917).
Open →❓ Where These Come From
A short history of the Lenten weekday readings — what is Roman in origin, what is Lutheran, and how the sources were established — with citations for the documentation.
Open →These belong to the Lutheran (LCMS) tradition within this project. As other traditions are added (Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Missal, and others), the same historic material will appear under each — the daily Lenten lectionary is, after all, Roman in origin and Lutheran in keeping.