6/7/2026

2nd Sunday after Pentecost

Fr Ken Casey

 

The Word of God

Opening Hymn: Christ is made the sure foundation...Hymn 518

The Acclamation............BCP 355

Gloria.............................Hymn S-280

The Collect of the Day: (2nd Sunday after Pentecost)....BCP 229

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.

 

First Lesson: Hosea 5:15-6:6...........Bible 838

Thus says the Lord: "I will return again to my place until they

acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they

will beg my favor: '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. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he

will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know, let us

press on the 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.' 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. Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have

killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgement goes forth

as the light. For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge

of God rather than burnt offerings."

 

Responsive Reading: Psalm 50:7-15............BCP 654

Hear, O my people, and I will speak: "O Israel, I will bear witness

against you;*

   for I am God, your God.

I do not accuse you because of your sacrifices;*

   your offerings are always before me.

I will take no bull-calf from your stalls,*

   nor he-goats out of your pens;

For all the beasts of the forest are mine,*

   the herds in their thousands upon the hills.

I know every bird in the sky,*

   and the creatures of the fields are in my sight.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you,*

   for the whole world is mine and all that is in it.

Do you think I eat the flesh of bulls,*

   or drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving*

   and make good your vows to the Most High.

Call upon me in the day of trouble;*

   I will deliver you, and you shall honor me."

 

Second Lesson: Romans 4:13-25...................Bible 155

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. If it is the adherents of the law who are

to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law

brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

For this reason it depends on faith, in order that the promise may

rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants, not

only to the adherents of the law but also to those who share the

faith of Abraham (for he is the father of all of us, 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 exisence the things that do not exist. Hoping against

hope, he believed that he would become "the father of many

nations," according to what was said, "So numerous shall your

descendants be." 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), or when he considered the barrenness

of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise

of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

Therefore his faith "was reckoned to him as righteousness." Now

the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake

alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him

who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over

to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justificaiton. 

 

Sequence Hymn: Faith of our fathers! living still..............Hymn 558

The Holy Gospel: Matthew: 9:9-13, 18-26..............Bible 9

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting

at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and

followed him. And as he sat a dinner in the house, many tax collectors

and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the

Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher

eat with tax collectors and sinners?" But when he heard this, he said,

"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are

sick. Go and learn what this means. "I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'

For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." While he was

saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in

and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died but come and lay

your hand on her, and she will live." And Jesus got up and followed him,

with his disciples. Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from

hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of

his cloak, for she said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well."

Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made

you well." And instantly the woman was made well. When Jesus came to the

leader's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,

he said, "Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed

at him. But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took

her by the hand, and the girl got up. And the report of this spread throughout

that district. 

 

The Sermon:........................................................................Fr Ken Casey

The Nicene Creed........................................BCP 358

The Prayers of the People

The Confession..................................BCP 360

The Peace

 

Offertory Music: Where cross the crowded ways of life.......Hymn 609

The Great Thanksgiving (Eucharistic Prayer A)................BCP 361

Sanctus..................................Hymn S-129

The Lord's Prayer.....................BCP 364

The Breaking of the Bread

 

Music at Communion: Come, thou fount of every blessing...Hymn 686

Post-Communion Prayer.........BCP 365

The Blessing

Announcements

Closing Hymn:Take up your cross, the Savior said.........Hymn 675

The Dismissal

Go in Peace to love and Serve the Lord.

Sharing God's love with all people! Alleluia!