The collect for today, the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, from The Book of Common Prayer [1] (Canadian, 1962):
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: Pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: 2 Corinthians 3:4-9 [2]
The Gospel: St Mark 7:31-37 [3]