Isaiah 58:1-12 Matthew 5:13-20 Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins. In today’s first reading, through Isaiah God speaks to the Children of Israel, they who have taken great pains to do the “right things”, to observe their religion scrupulously. They believe they have truly sought God daily and have desired to know God’s ways, “as if they were a nation that practiced

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John 1:29-42 Good morning, on the first Sunday after we celebrated the Baptism of Jesus. Hearing today’s Gospel, you might think it also sounds like a baptismal story, which it is, but with some very specific differences from what we heard last Sunday. As it was for Christmas, where on two different Sundays we had two different descriptions of the Nativity, so, as last week we had Matthew’s version of Jesus’ baptism, this week we heard the story from the Gospel according to