Psalm 71
1A Psalm according to Solomon. 2Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment. 3Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice. 4He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser. 5And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation. 6He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth. 7In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away. 8And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world. 9In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground. 10The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts. 11And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him. 12For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper. 13He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor. 14He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight. 15And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long. 16And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth. 17May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.
Alleluia — Luke 4:18
18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
Luke 4:14-22
14And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit, into Galilee. And his fame spread throughout the entire region. 15And he taught in their synagogues, and he was magnified by everyone. 16And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read. 17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written: 18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, 19to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.” 20And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”