Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Isaiah 58.9b-14

Thus says the LORD:
“If you take away from your midst the yoke,
the finger-pointing and wicked speech,
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul:
then your light shall rise in darkness,
and your gloom be as the noonday;
and the Lord will guide you continually,
and satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make strong your bones;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.

Those ruins of yours shall be rebuilt.
You shall raise up the foundations
of many generations;
and you shall be called
The Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Paths to Dwell In.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your business on my holy day;
and call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
nor pursuing your own business,
nor speaking your own words:
then you shall be delighted in the Lord;
and I will make you to ride
on the high places of the earth;
and I will feed you with the heritage
of Jacob your father:
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”

Responsorial – Psalm 86.1-2, 3-4, 5-6 Resp. 11ab

R. Instruct me in your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

Hear, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
Save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God.

R. Instruct me in your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

Be merciful to me, Lord,
for I call to you all day long.
Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
for to you, Lord, I lift up my soul.

R. Instruct me in your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive;
abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Hear, O Lord, my prayer.
Listen to the voice of my petition.

R. Instruct me in your ways, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

Gospel – Luke 5.27-32

After these things Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting upon the tax chair,
and said to him, “Follow me!”

He left everything, and rose up and followed him.
Levi made a great feast for him in his house.
There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured to his disciples, saying,
“Why, with tax collectors and sinners, do you eat and drink?”
And answering, Jesus said to them,
“Those who are healthy have no need for a healer, but those carrying evil do.
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to reconsider.”