Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

When Jesus passed on from there, he saw, sitting at the tax office, a man named Matthew. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And rising up, he followed him. And it happened that, as he was sitting down to eat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners arrived, and they sat down to eat with Jesus and his disciples. And the Pharisees, seeing this, said to his disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” But Jesus, hearing this, said: “It is not those who are healthy who are in need of a physician, but those who have maladies. So then, go out and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the just, but sinners.”