A.D. 2020 March 7

The Saturday in the First Week of Lent

Collects

O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

and

Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Lessons

Table of Lessons

Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer

Alternative Table of Lessons (1961) — Year II

Morning Prayer
Evening Prayer

Liturgical Colours

Purple

Perpetua of Mauritania, Martyr

Liturgical Colours

Red

References

Ember Day

Liturgical Colours

Purple

References