Thursday, March 24, 2022
Thursday of Oculi
Oculi — Third 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

Salus populi — Liturgical text; Psalm 78

I am the salvation of the people, saith the Lord: from whatever tribulation they shall cry to me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord for ever. Psalm. Attend, O my people, to my law; incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

Collect of the Day

May the blessed solemnity of thy saints Cosmas and Damian magnify thee, O Lord: by which thou hast both granted eternal glory to them, and assistance to us in thy ineffable providence. Through our Lord, &c.

The collect names Sts. Cosmas and Damian because the day's ancient Roman station was at their basilica — a fixture of the old missal, kept here as printed.

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).