Saturday, February 28, 2026
Ember Saturday in Lent
Invocavit — First Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2025–2026 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

First Lesson
Deuteronomy 26:15-29
Second Lesson
Deuteronomy 11:22-25
Third Lesson
2 Maccabees 1:23, 2-5
Fourth Lesson
Sirach 36:1-10
Fifth Lesson
Prayer of Azariah 1:24-28
Epistle
1 Thessalonians 5:14-23
Gospel
Matthew 17:1-9

An Ember Day — the ancient Saturday of many prophecies (five lessons, then Epistle and Gospel), closing with the Transfiguration.

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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.