First Reading
Amos 5:14-15, 21-24
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
14Seek you good, and not evil, that you may live: and the Lord the God of hosts will be with you, as you have said.
15Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.
21I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
22And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.
23Take away from me the tumult of your songs: and I will not hear the canticles of your harp.
24But judgment shall be revealed as water, and righteousness as a mighty torrent.