Saint Henry, Bishop and Martyr

10Listen to the Word of the Lord, you leaders of the people of Sodom. Listen closely to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah. 11The multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats. 12When you approach before my sight, who is it that requires these things from your hands, so that you would walk in my courts? 13You should no longer offer sacrifice in vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous. 14My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure them. 15And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood. 16Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely. 17Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

9I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

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16But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

17Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

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21These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.

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23The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

10:34Do not think that I came to send peace upon the earth. I came, not to send peace, but the sword. 35For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And the enemies of a man will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life, will lose it. And whoever will have lost his life because of me, shall find it. 40Whoever receives you, receives me. And whoever receives me, receives him who sent me. 41Whoever receives a prophet, in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet. And whoever receives the just in the name of the just shall receive the reward of the just. 42And whoever shall give, even to one of the least of these, a cup of cold water to drink, solely in the name of a disciple: Amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”

11:1And it happened that, when Jesus had completed instructing his twelve disciples, he went away from there in order to teach and to preach in their cities.