Saturday
after Ash Wednesday
FIRST
READING: Isaiah
58: 9 - 14
9
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he
shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the
midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that
which profiteth not.
10
When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy
the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy
darkness shall be as the noonday.
11
And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul
with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a
watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not
fail.
12
And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in
thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and
generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences,
turning the paths into rest.
13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will
in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the
Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and
thy own will is not found: to speak a word:
14
Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up
above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the
inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.
PSALM:
Psalms 86:
1 - 6
1
Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.
2
Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that
trusteth in thee.
3
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.
4
Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have
lifted up my soul.
5
For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all
that call upon thee.
6
Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my
petition.
GOSPEL:
Luke 5:
27 - 32
27
And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi,
sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me.
28
And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.
29
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a
great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with
them.
30
But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why
do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
31
And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the
physician: but they that are sick.
32
I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
