Friday, March 31, 2017
Friday of Laetare
Laetare — Fourth Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2016–2017 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

Introit & Collect Historic Western

The historic Western rite’s propers for this weekday Mass — not found in Lutheran service books; given for reference alongside the readings.

Introit

Meditatio cordis mei — Psalm 19

The meditation of my heart is always in thy sight: O Lord, my helper and my redeemer. Psalm. The heavens shew forth the glory of God; and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

Collect of the Day

O God, who renewest the world by unspeakable mysteries, grant, we beseech thee, that thy Church may profit by thy eternal institutions, and not be deprived of temporal assistance. Through, &c.

Introit and Collect from Husenbeth’s Missal for the Use of the Laity (London, 1853), public domain; cross-verified against the Philadelphia Roman Missal … for the Use of the Laity (1861).

Source: The Lutheran Missal, "Lenten Lections" (11 February 2020), https://lutheranmissal.home.blog/2020/02/11/lenten-lections/ — the historic Western (Roman-rite) Lenten ferial lectionary in its late-medieval German / Lutheran recension. Introits and collects: F. C. Husenbeth, The Missal for the Use of the Laity (London, 1853), public domain; cross-verified against The Roman Missal … for the Use of the Laity (Philadelphia, 1861) and The Anglican Missal (1921).