Saturday, March 29, 2031
Saturday of Laetare
Laetare — Fourth Week in Lent · Historic Lenten weekday Mass
Lent 2030–2031 Church Year Purple

Appointed Readings

First Lesson
Second Lesson
Gospel

A day of two lessons.

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

Sitientes venite — Isaiah 55; Psalm 78

O you that thirst, come to the waters, saith the Lord; and you that have no money, come and drink with joy. Psalm. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Collect of the Day

May the affection of our devotion be made fruitful by thy grace, we beseech thee, O Lord, for then will the fasts we have undertaken become profitable to us, if they are pleasing to thy mercy. Through, &c.

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).

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).