Mass Readings for February 17, 2024

Isaiah 58:9-14
Psalms 86:1-6
Luke 5:27-32

Isaiah 58:9-14
(9) Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; (10) and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; (11) and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail. (12) Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings. (13) “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: (14) then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; 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 Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

Psalms 86:1-6
(1) Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. (2) Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you. (3) Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. (4) Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul. (5) For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. (6) Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

Luke 5:27-32
(27) After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!” (28) He left everything, and rose up and followed him. (29) 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. (30) Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” (31) Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. (32) I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”