Sunday between 5 and 11 June    (if after Trinity Sunday)    

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

First Reading - Hosea 6.3b-6

A reading from the book of the prophet Hosea. The presence of the Lord is as certain as the rising of the sun. And the Lord will come to us like the spring rains that water the earth. Yet the Lord says, ‘What shall I do with you, my people? For your compassion disappears, like the dew, and like the morning mist. I send you my words, to cut you to the heart. I send you my judgements, blazing like the sun. Then I see your sacrifices, and I see your burnt-offerings. But what I long to see is compassion, and for my people to know their God.’ This is the word of the Lord.

Second Reading - Romans 2.13-16

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans. Hearing God’s law will not make you righteous, unless you also do what the law demands. When those who have not heard God’s law do naturally what the law demands, they show that they have the law within themselves, already written on their hearts, and in their thoughts and consciences. And their own thoughts and consciences will both accuse them and excuse them on the day when God judges the secret thoughts of us all. This is the word of the Lord.

Gospel - Matthew 9.9-13

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew. As Jesus was walking along, he passed by the place where the Roman taxes were collected. Jesus saw a man called Matthew working there. Jesus said to Matthew, ‘Follow me.’ And Matthew got up and followed Jesus. Jesus and his disciples later sat at dinner with many collectors of the Roman taxes, and other notorious sinners. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to the disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with such people?’ When Jesus heard this, he said, ‘It is the sick, not the healthy, who need a doctor; I have come to call sinners, not the righteous. Go and learn what the scripture means, where it says, “I look not for sacrifice, but for compassion.”’ This is the Gospel of the Lord.