Friday, April 3, 2026
Good Friday
Holy Week (Palmarum through Good Friday) · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2025–2026 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

First Lesson
Hosea 5:15b-6:6 pre-LSB
Second Lesson
Exodus 12:1-11 pre-LSB
Gospel (Passion)
John 18:1-19:42

Exodus 12 (the Passover lamb) stands here historically, not on Maundy Thursday.

⬇ PDF card ← Full Lenten table Where these come from

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.