Gospel of 6 July 2018

Friday of the XIII week of Ordinary Time holidays

Book of Amos 8,4-6.9-12.
Listen to this, you who trample on the poor and exterminate the humble of the country,
you who say: “When will the new moon have passed and the wheat sold? And on Saturdays, so that wheat can be disposed of, decreasing the size and increasing the shekel and using false scales,
to buy the poor and the poor with money for a pair of sandals? We will also sell the grain waste ”.
On that day - oracle of the Lord God - I will set the sun at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight!
I will change your mourning parties and all your lamenting songs: I will make the sack dress on each side, I will make every head bald: I will make it a mourning for an only child and its end will be like a day of bitterness.
Behold, days will come - says the Lord God - in which I will send hunger to the land, not hunger for bread, nor thirst for water, but to listen to the word of the Lord.
Then they will wander from one sea to another and will wander from north to east, to seek the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

Psalms 119 (118), 2.10.20.30.40.131.
Blessed is he who is faithful to his teachings
and seek it with all his heart.
With all my heart I look for you:
don't make me deviate from your precepts.

I am consumed in desire
of your precepts at all times.
I chose the way of justice,
I proposed your judgments.

Behold, I desire your commandments;
for your justice let me live.
I open my mouth,
because I desire your commandments.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 9,9-13.
At that time, Jesus passing by saw a man sitting at the tax office called Matthew and said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.
While Jesus sat at the table in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat at the table with him and the disciples.
Seeing this, the Pharisees said to his disciples, "Why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus heard them and said: «It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.
So go and learn what it means: Mercy I want and not sacrifice. In fact, I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners ».