SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH, 2026

​2ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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INTRODUCTION​

Though Jesus was a devout Jew who practiced his faith, he was criticized for
     eating with tax collectors and sinners—the religiously nonobservant. Jesus
     criticizes the self-righteous and reminds us that mercy is to be at the heart of our
     religious practices. God continues to be made known in those on the margins of
     society, like Matthew the tax collector and the hemorrhaging woman. As we
     gather each Lord’s day we receive the healing that makes us well and sends us
     forth to be signs of God’s mercy for the world.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

O God, you are the source of life and the ground of our being. By the power of
     your Spirit bring healing to this wounded world, and raise us to the new life of
     your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.​

FIRST READING

HOSEA 5:15--6:6
Because the people have trusted in military powers and not God, God decides to
     withdraw from the scene until Israel acknowledges its guilt and seeks God’s face.
     The response of the people does not acknowledge this guilt and is as fickle as
     fog or dew burned away quickly by the sun. God desires loyalty rather than words
     or meaningless deeds.

15 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:

6:1 “Come, let us return to the Lord,
for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
he has struck down, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;
his appearing is as sure as the dawn;
he will come to us like the showers,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
  Your love is like a morning cloud,
  like the dew that goes away early.
  5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
  I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
  and my judgment goes forth as the light.
  6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
  the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

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PSALM

PSALM 50:7-15
(Response) Call upon me in the day of trouble, says your God. (Ps. 50:15)

7 “Listen, my people, and I will speak: Israel, I will bear witness against you;
for I am God, your God.
  8 I do not accuse you because of your sacrifices;
  your burnt offerings are always before me.
  9 I will not accept a calf from your stalls,
  nor goats from your pens;
  10 for all the wild animals of the forest are mine,
  the cattle on a thousand hills.
(Response) Call upon me in the day of trouble, says your God. (Ps. 50:15)

11 I know every bird of the mountains,
and the creatures of the fields are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
for the whole world is mine and all that is in it.
13 Do you think I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
and make good your vows to the Most High.
15 Call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall honor me.
(Response) Call upon me in the day of trouble, says your God. (Ps. 50:15)​

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SECOND READING

ROMANS 4:13-25
  Paul presents Abraham as a living model of right relationships. For Abraham and
     for us, a right relationship with God involves trusting that God’s promises will be
     fulfilled because God makes the dead alive and calls into existence what
     otherwise does not exist.

13 The promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his
     descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is
     the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is
     void. 15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there
     transgression.

     16 For this reason the promise depends on faith, in order that it may rest on
     grace, so that it may be guaranteed to all his descendants, not only to the
     adherents of the law but also to those who share the faith of Abraham (who is the
     father of all of us, 17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many
     nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the
     dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 18 Hoping against hope,
     he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what
     was said, “So shall your descendants be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he
     considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about
     a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb. 20 No distrust made
     him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he
     gave glory to God, 21 being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had
     promised. 22 Therefore “it was reckoned to him as righteousness.” 23 Now the
     words, “it was reckoned to him,” were written not for his sake alone 24 but for
     ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord
     from the dead, 25 who was handed over for our trespasses and was raised for
     our justification.​

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​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and has anointed me to bring
     good news to the poor. Alleluia. (Luke 4:18)

GOSPEL READING

MATTHEW 9:9-13, 18-26
 Jesus demonstrates God’s mercy and power, accepting the unacceptable and
     curing the incurable. Even the dead receive new life.

9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-
     collection station, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

     10 And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came
     and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this,
     they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and
     sinners?” 12 But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need
     of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire
     mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.”

     18 While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader came in and
     knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand
     on her, and she will live.” 19 And Jesus got up and followed him, with his
     disciples. 20 Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from a flow of
     blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak,
     21 for she was saying to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.”
     22 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has
     made you well.” And the woman was made well from that moment. 23 When
     Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd
     making a commotion, 24 he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.”
     And they laughed at him. 25 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went
     in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. 26 And the report of this spread
     through all of that district.​

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