Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Book of Isaiah

58,9b-14.

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.

Psalms

86(85),1-2.3-4.5-6.

Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me,
for I am afflicted and poor.
Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

5,27-32.

Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, "Follow me."
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.
Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them.
The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus said to them in reply, "Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners."

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Sts. Adrian and Eubulus(Martyrs (+ 309))

SAINTS ADRIAN and EUBULUS Martyrs (+ 309) In the seventh year of Diocletian's persecution, when Firmilian, the governor of Palestine washed Cæsarea with the blood of martyrs, Adrian and Eubulus came from Magantia to Cæsarea.At the gates, they were asked where they were going and on what errand. They ingenuously confessed the truth, and were brought before the judge, who ordered them tortured and their sides torn with iron hooks. Two days later, when the pagans at Cæsarea celebrated a festival, Adrian was exposed to a lion, and was mangled but not killed. An executioner then dispatched him with a sword.Eubulus met a similar fate two days later. The judge offered Eubulus liberty if he sacrificed to idols; but Eubulus refused. For his faithfulness, Eubulus was led to the amphitheater and killed by lions. At the time of their martyrdom, the persecution in Cæsarea had continued for twelve years under three successive governors, Flavian, Urban, and Firmilian. The Church buckled under the storm of persecution, only to rise and rise again. "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church." Their sacrifices were not in vain.

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St. Kieran()

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