Saturday after Ash Wednesday

9Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not. 10When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. 11And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail. 12And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundations of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest. 13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found: to speak a word: 14Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

1A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

2Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

3Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

4Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

5For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

6Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

27And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him: Follow me. 28And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him. 29And Levi made him a great feast in his own house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others, that were at table with them. 30But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole, need not the physician: but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.