Daily Bible Readings

Taken from the Daily Lectionary of the Lutheran Hymnal

Ember Saturday

Liturgical Color: Violet

Introit

TURN US || again, O God of hosts, cause Thy | face | to | shine:
    and | we | shall | be | saved.
||Give ear, O Shepherd of | Is- | ra | el:
    Thou that leadest Jo- | seph | like | a | flock.

Psalm Readings

Matins: Psalm 132

Vespers: Psalm 98

Collect

O God, who seest that we are afflicted because of our iniquity, mercifully grant that we be comforted by Thy visitation, Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.

First Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8

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Gradual

|| His going forth is from the end of | the | heav- | en:
    and his circuit unto | the | ends | of | it.
|| The heavens declare the glor- | y | of | God:
    and the firmament sheweth | His | hand- | y | work.

Second Reading: Luke 3:1-6

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