R (11ab) Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Incline your ear, O Lord; answer me,
for I am afflicted and poor.
Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God. R
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. R
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading. R
Verse before the Gospel
I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord,/ but rather in his conversion, that he may live.
- I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners. l
