Gospel of 16 July 2018

Book of Isaiah 1,10-17.
Hear the word of the Lord, you chiefs of Sodom; listen to the doctrine of our God, people of Gomorrah!
"What do I care about your numberless sacrifices?" says the Lord. “I am satisfied with the burnings of rams and the fat of heifers; I don't like the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
When you come to introduce yourself to me, who requires you to come and step on my halls?
Stop making unnecessary offers, incense is an abomination for me; new moons, saturdays, sacred assemblies, I cannot bear crime and solemnity.
I hate your new moons and your feasts, they are a burden to me; I'm tired of putting up with them.
When you stretch out your hands, I take my eyes away from you. Even if you multiply the prayers, I don't listen. Your hands are dripping with blood.
Wash yourselves, purify yourselves, remove the evil of your actions from my sight. Stop doing evil,
learn to do good, seek justice, help the oppressed, do justice to the orphan, defend the cause of the widow. "

Salmi 50(49),8-9.16bc-17.21ab.23.
I don't blame you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before me.
I will not take heifers from your home,
nor go from your fences.

Because you go repeating my decrees
and you always have my covenant in your mouth,
you who hate discipline
and throw your words behind you?

Did you do this and should I keep quiet?
maybe you thought I was like you!
"Whoever offers the sacrifice of praise, he honors me,
to those who walk the right way
I will show the salvation of God. "

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 10,34-42.11,1.
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: «Do not believe that I have come to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
In fact, I came to separate the son from the father, the daughter from the mother, the daughter-in-law from the mother-in-law:
and man's enemies will be those of his house.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it: and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will have the reward of the prophet, and whoever welcomes a righteous one as righteous will have the reward of the righteous.
And whoever has given even one glass of fresh water to one of these little ones, because he is my disciple, verily I say to you: he will not lose his reward ».
When Jesus had finished giving these instructions to his twelve disciples, he left from there to teach and preach in their cities.