Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Wednesday of Reminiscere
Reminiscere — Second Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2019–2020 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

Ne derelinquas me — Psalm 38

Forsake me not, O Lord my God, do not thou depart from me; attend unto my help, O Lord, the power of my salvation. Psalm. Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation: nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Collect of the Day

Mercifully regard thy people, O Lord, we beseech thee, and grant that we, whom thou commandest to abstain from carnal food, may also cease from hurtful vices. Through our Lord, &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).