SEEK GOOD AND NOT EVIL

'Your light shall break forth like the dawn' 

First Reading Isaiah 58:1-9 The sort of fast that pleases me

Thus says the Lord God: «Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, like a nation that has done what is just and not abandoned the law of their God. They ask me to declare what is due them, pleased to gain access to God. ‘Why do we fast, and you do not see it? afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?’. Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers. Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, striking with wicked claw. Would that today you might fast so as to make your voice heard on high! Is this the manner of fasting I wish, of keeping a day of penance: That a man bow his head like a reed and lie in sackcloth and ashes?

»Do you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!».

Responsorial Psalm 50 (51):  A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

Gospel Matthiew 9:14-15 When the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast

John’s disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants would never think of mourning as long as the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then they will fast.’

AELF: CHERCHEZ LE BIEN, NON LE MAL

«Ta lumière jaillira comme l’aurore» 

Évangile Matthieu 9, 14-15 

« Des jours viendront où l’Époux leur sera enlevé ; alors ils jeûneront »

En ce temps-là, les disciples de Jean le Baptiste s’approchèrent de Jésus en disant : « Pourquoi, alors que nous et les pharisiens, nous jeûnons, tes disciples ne jeûnent-ils pas ? » Jésus leur répondit : « Les invités de la noce pourraient-ils donc être en deuil pendant le temps où l’Époux est avec eux ? Mais des jours viendront où l’Époux leur sera enlevé ; alors ils jeûneront. »  

Let us pray Psalm 50(51). Jesus, I trust in you. Lord lncrease my faith. Virgin Mary, pray for me. Saint Joseph, pray for me. My angel guardian, pray for me. Pray the Rosary.

Prions Psaume 50(51). Jésus, j'ai confiance en toi. Augmente ma foi, Seigneur. Vierge Marie, priez pour moi. Saint Joseph, priez pour moi. Mon ange gardien, priez pour moi. Priez le Rosaire.