LORD TEACH ME YOUR WAY

‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?

Reading Isaiah 58:9b-14 You will be like a spring whose waters never run dry

Thus says the Lord: «If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; if you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted, then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday. Then the Lord will guide you always and give you plenty even on the parched land.

He will renew your strength, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails. The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake, and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up; ‘Repairer of the breach’, they shall call you, ‘Restorer of ruined homesteads’.

If you hold back your foot on the Sabbath from following your own pursuits on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight, and the Lord's holy day honorable; if you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice, then you shall delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken».

Responsorial Psalm: Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

Gospel Luke 5:27-32 Jesus comes not to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance

Jesus noticed a tax collector, Levi by name, sitting by the customs house, and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything he got up and followed him.

In his honour Levi held a great reception in his house, and with them at table was a large gathering of tax collectors and others. The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples and said, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’ Jesus said to them in reply, ‘It is not those who are well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.’

AELF: SEIGNEUR, MONTRE-MOI TON CHEMIN

« Pourquoi mangez-vous et buvez-vous avec les publicains et les pécheurs ? »

Évangile Luc 5, 27-32 Jésus est venu appeler non pas les justes, mais les pécheurs

En ce temps-là, Jésus sortit et remarqua un publicain (c’est-à-dire un collecteur d’impôts) du nom de Lévi assis au bureau des impôts. Il lui dit : « Suis-moi. » Abandonnant tout, l’homme se leva ; et il le suivait.

Lévi donna pour Jésus une grande réception dans sa maison ; il y avait là une foule nombreuse de publicains et d’autres gens attablés avec eux. Les pharisiens et les scribes de leur parti récriminaient en disant à ses disciples : « Pourquoi mangez-vous et buvez-vous avec les publicains et les pécheurs ? » Jésus leur répondit : « Ce ne sont pas les gens en bonne santé qui ont besoin du médecin, mais les malades. Je ne suis pas venu appeler des justes mais des pécheurs, pour qu’ils se convertissent. »

Jesus I trust in you. Lord you came for the sinner, the sick. Thank you Saviour. Lord, teach me your way. Do not abandon me, my Lord. Virgin Mary, pray for me. Saint Joseph, pray for me. My angel guardian, pray for me.

Jésus, j'ai confiance en toi. Seigneur, tu es venu pour le pécheur et le malade. Merci, Sauveur. Seigneur, enseigne-moi ton chemin. Ne m'abandonne pas, Seigneur. Vierge Marie, priez pour moi. Saint Joseph, priez pour moi. Mon ange gardien, priez pour moi.

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