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| "Curses Against the Pharisees" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Isaiah
1: 10, 16 - 20
10
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my
eyes: cease to do perversely,
17
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the
fatherless, defend the widow.
18
And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as
crimson, they shall be white as wool.
19
If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good
things of the land.
20
But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall
devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
PSALM:
Psalms 50:
8 - 9, 16 - 17, 21, 23
8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings
are always in my sight.
9
I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy
flocks.
16
But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices,
and take my covenant in thy mouth?
17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind
thee.
21
These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest
unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and
set before thy face.
23
The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by
which I will shew him the salvation of God.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 23:
1 - 12
1
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2
Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of
Moses.
3
All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and
do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
4
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's
shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
5
And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make
their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
6
And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the
synagogues,
7
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
8
But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are
brethren.
9
And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is
in heaven.
10
Neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, Christ.
11
He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall
humble himself shall be exalted.
