Monday, April 1, 2019
Monday of Laetare
Laetare — Fourth Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2018–2019 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

Deus in nomine tuo — Psalm 54

Save me, O God, by thy name, and in thy strength deliver me: O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth. Psalm. For strangers have risen up against me: and the mighty have sought after my soul.

Collect of the Day

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that keeping with yearly devotion these sacred observances, we may please thee both in body and mind. 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).