Gospel: Lk 8: 16-18 No one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a bowl or puts it under the bed; rather, he puts it on a lamp stand, so that people coming in may see the light.
Gospel: Lk 8: 4-15 As a great crowd gathered, and people came to him from every town, Jesus began teaching them with a story: “The sower went out to sow the seed.
Gospel: Mt 9: 9-13 As Jesus moved on from there, he saw a man named Matthew, at his seat in the custom-house; and he said to him, “Follow me!” And Matthew got up and followed him.
Gospel: Lk 7: 31-35 And Jesus said, “What comparison can I use for the people? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, about whom their companies complain, ‘We piped you a tune and you wouldn’t dance; we sang funeral songs and you wouldn’t cry.’