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UrbScotty

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3. The first reading from Amos (8:4-7) was even more powerful

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Mon Sep 23, 2013, 11:41 AM

Sep 2013

http://origin.usccb.org/bible/readings/092213.cfm

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy
and destroy the poor of the land!
“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,
“that we may sell our grain,
and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?
We will diminish the ephah,
add to the shekel,
and fix our scales for cheating!
We will buy the lowly for silver,
and the poor for a pair of sandals;
even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!”
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Never will I forget a thing they have done!

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Another timely Gospel reading [View all] 47of74 Sep 2013 OP

I felt the same way.. polmaven Sep 2013 #1

Episcopal here wryter2000 Sep 2013 #2

The first reading from Amos (8:4-7) was even more powerful UrbScotty Sep 2013 #3

We didn't get that one this past weekend in the Episcopal Church 47of74 Sep 2013 #5

It's not in Leviticus, nor was it written by Paul Thav Sep 2013 #4

They just like a few sentences in the New Testament 47of74 Sep 2013 #6