Reading 1, Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13

¹ I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called.

² With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love.

³ Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together.

⁴ There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God.

⁵ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶ and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.

⁷ On each one of us God's favour has been bestowed in whatever way Christ allotted it.

¹¹ And to some, his 'gift' was that they should be apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers;

¹² to knit God's holy people together for the work of service to build up the Body of Christ,

¹³ until we all reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 19:2-3, 4-5

² day discourses of it to day, night to night hands on the knowledge.

³ No utterance at all, no speech, not a sound to be heard,

⁴ but from the entire earth the design stands out, this message reaches the whole world. High above, he pitched a tent for the sun,

⁵ who comes forth from his pavilion like a bridegroom, delights like a champion in the course to be run.

Gospel, Matthew 9:9-13

⁹ As Jesus was walking on from there he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, 'Follow me.' And he got up and followed him.

¹⁰ Now while he was at table in the house it happened that a number of tax collectors and sinners came to sit at the table with Jesus and his disciples.

¹¹ When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, 'Why does your master eat with tax collectors and sinners?'

¹² When he heard this he replied, 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.

¹³ Go and learn the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice. And indeed I came to call not the upright, but sinners.'

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