Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 73 First Reading: Isaiah 58:7-1

Thus says the LORD: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break orth like the dawn, and your wound shall !uickly be healed; your "indication shall go be ore you, and the glory o the LORD shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, you shall cry or help, and he will say: #ere $ am% $ you remo"e rom your midst oppression, alse accusation and malicious speech; i you bestow your bread on the hungry and satis y the a licted; then light shall rise or you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become or you like midday.

Second Reading: 1 cor $:1-5

(hen $ came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery o .od, $ did not come with sublimity o words or o wisdom. /or $ resol"ed to know nothing while $ was with you e,cept 0esus 1hrist, and him cruci ied. $ came to you in weakness and ear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasi"e words o wisdom, but with a demonstration o Spirit and power, so that your aith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power o .od.

)os!e": *atthe+ 5:13-1'

0esus said to his disciples: 23ou are the salt o the earth. 4ut i salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned5 $t is no longer good or anything but to be thrown out and trampled under oot. 3ou are the light o the world. * city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. 6or do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gi"es light to all in the house. 0ust so, your light must shine be ore others, that they may see your good deeds and glori y your hea"enly /ather.7

Res!onsoria" #sa"m !s 11$:%-5& '-7& 8-( R/ The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.
&. Light shines through the darkness or the upright; he is gracious and merci ul and 'ust. (ell or the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his a airs with 'ustice.

R/ The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

). #e shall ne"er be mo"ed; the 'ust one shall be in e"erlasting remembrance. *n e"il report he shall not ear; his heart is irm, trusting in the LORD.

R/ The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

+. #is heart is stead ast; he shall not ear. La"ishly he gi"es to the poor; #is 'ustice shall endure ore"er; his horn shall be e,alted in glory.

-. R/ The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.