Catholic Daily Reading 16th July 2012

"Isa 1:10  Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
Isa 1:11  To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
Isa 1:12  When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
Isa 1:13  Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
Isa 1:14  My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
Isa 1:15  And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16  Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,
Isa 1:17  Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow."
Isaiah 1.10-17

"Psa 50:8  I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
Psa 50:9  I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
Psa 50:16  But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?
Psa 50:17  Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Psa 50:21  These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Psa 50:23  The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God. "
Psalm 50.8-9,16-17,21,23

"Mat 10:34  Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.
Mat 10:35  For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36  And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37  He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38  And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for me, shall find it.
Mat 10:40  He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
Mat 10:41  He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man.
Mat 10:42  And whosoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, amen I say to you he shall not lose his reward.
Mat 11:1  And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he passed from thence, to teach and to preach in their cities."
Matthew 10.34-11.1