The Second Sunday after the Pentecost

Sentence		The Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor and release to the captives. (Luke 4. 18)

Collect		O God, from whom all good proceeds: grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Old Testament / 1st Reading		Hosea 5:15-6:6

Psalm		Psalm 50:7-15

Epistle / 2nd Reading		Romans 4:13-25

Gospel		Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26