Thursday, March 10, 2022
Thursday of Invocavit
Invocavit — First Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2021–2022 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

Confessio et pulchritudo — Psalm 96

Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his sanctuary. Psalm. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord all the earth.

Collect of the Day

Favourably look down, O Lord, upon the devotion of thy people, that we, who are afflicted in body by abstinence, may be refreshed in mind by the fruit of good works. 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).