Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Wednesday of Holy Week
Holy Week (Palmarum through Good Friday) · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2022–2023 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

First Lesson
Isaiah 62:11-63:5, 7a
Second Lesson
Isaiah 53:1-12 pre-LSB
Gospel (Passion)
Luke 22:1-23:53

'Spy Wednesday' — two lessons, closing with the Passion according to St. Luke. Isaiah 53 stands here (historically), not on Good Friday.

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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.