Fourth Sunday In Lent

Today is Laetare Sunday. Vestments will be pink or rose.

From The Roman Missal, 1962:
"Laetare, Rejoice," says the Introit. Laetare Sunday offers us a break in the midst of Lenten observance. We are soon to rise again with Jesus through confession and Easter Communion.






Introit
Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation.

(Ps. 121. 1) I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: we shall go into the house of the Lord. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, now and forever.

Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation.

The Gospel reading is from St. John 6. 1-15, in which Jesus feeds the multitudes by multiplying the loaves and fishes (symbols of Holy Communion).