July 1, 2016
We hope it will be a good day today !
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St. Junipero Serra, OFM, Priest (Optional Memorial)
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Gospel: Matthew 9:9-13
9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
10 As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
12 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.
13 But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,'☆ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."*
☆9:13: Hosea 6:6
*9:13: NU omits "to repentance".
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Amos 8:4-6, 9-12
4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
and cause the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,
making the ephah* small, and the shekel† large,
and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
6 that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord GOD,
"that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,
and all your songs into lamentation;
and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
and baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
and its end like a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD,
"that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread,
nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the LORD's words.
12 They will wander from sea to sea,
and from the north even to the east;
they will run back and forth to seek the LORD's word,
and will not find it.
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◇ The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ July 1, 2016 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/16_07_01.mp3
◇ Daily Readings July 1, 2016
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/070116.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2016-07-01
◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Matt.9
◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Matthew&chapter=9&verse=
◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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