Scriptures and Prayer for Wednesday in the Ninth Week after Pentecost

Psalter: Psalm 61

Old Testament: 2 Samuel 9:1-13

Gospel: Luke 15:1-7

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Persistently forgiving God, we are a stiff-necked and stubborn people who try your patience; yet, instead of giving us up for lost, you seek us out until we return to you. Break our willfulness and bring us back from our wanderings; bend our pride and create in us pure and faithful hearts, which rejoice in your forgiveness made known through Jesus Christ. Amen.