Saturday, March 30, 2030
Saturday of Oculi
Oculi — Third Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2029–2030 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

Lesson
Susanna 1:1-9, 15-17, 19-62
Gospel
John 8:1-11

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

Verba mea — Psalm 5

Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry: hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God. Psalm. For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

Collect of the Day

Grant we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that they who, afflicting their flesh, abstain from food, may, following justice, fast from sin. Through our Lord, &c.

The missal appoints the same collect as on Monday of the Second Week.

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).

⬇ 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. 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).