Saturday, March 8, 2031
Ember Saturday in Lent
Invocavit — First Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2030–2031 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.

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

Intret oratio mea — Psalm 88

Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition, O Lord. Psalm. O Lord the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee.

Collect of the Day

Favourably look down upon thy people, we beseech thee, O Lord, and mercifully turn away from them the scourges of thy anger. Through, &c.

Ember Saturday: each of the day's five lessons has its own collect; the first — the Collect of the day — is given here.

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).

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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. 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).