Catholic Daily Reading 6th July 2012

"Amo 8:4  Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,
Amo 8:5  Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,
Amo 8:6  That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
Amo 8:9  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:
Amo 8:10  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.
Amo 8:11  Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
Amo 8:12  And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the east: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."
Amos 8:4-6,9-12

"Psa 119:2  Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.
Psa 119:10  With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.
Psa 119:20  My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.
Psa 119:30  I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten.
Psa 119:40  Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.
Psa 119:131  I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments."
Psalms 119:2,10,20,30,40,131

"Mat 9:9  And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he arose up and followed him.
Mat 9:10  And it came to pass as he was sitting at meat in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came, and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
Mat 9:11  And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners?
Mat 9:12  But Jesus hearing it, said: They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill.
Mat 9:13  Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners."
Matthew 9:9-13