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# The Lessons — These were the Lectio Prophetica from the Old Testament, and the Lectio Apostolica or Epistle.

In Paschal time the Apocalypse took the place of the Lectio Prophetica, and a lesson from the Acts of the Apostles that of the Epistle.

In Lent the Histories of the Old Testament were read instead of the Prophetical Lesson, and on Saint's Days the Acts of the Saints.

This agrees with the present Mozarabic, except in the Acts of the Saints, and with the Luxeuil Lectionary, and the Bobbio.

The Acts of the Saints were used as Mass Lessons in the Ambrosian Rite as late as the twelfth century.

According to St. Germanus the second lesson followed immediately on the first, but in the Mozarabic the Benedicite and a Psallendo ( Responsary ) come between them.

In the Gallican the Benedicite and the Responsorium followed the Epistle.

The Bobbio has a fixed collect, Post Benedictionem, which is that which follows Benedictus es ( Dan., iii ) on Ember Saturdays in the Roman Missal.