Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday and the First Days · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2025–2026 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

Epistle (Lesson)
Joel 2:12-19
Epistle
2 Peter 1:2-11 LSB add.
Gospel
Matthew 6:16-21

Historically the Epistle was Joel alone, with no New Testament reading before the Gospel; the 2 Peter Epistle is a modern LSB addition.

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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.